garage rock
Say Psych: Track: PEEL – Memory Loop
PEEL hail from Sydney and make inter-dimensional guitar music; they create sonic architecture built from elements of shoegaze, post-punk and psychedelia and have come out of the gates with all engines firing. ‘Memory Loop’ is their first single and offers a raw and potent four minutes of hypnotic, fuzzed-out pop. The keen eye may recognise PEEL members from Third …
News: Fuzztones celebrate their 40 year anniversary with new studio album – NYC
Garage Rock Revivalists Fuzztones Celebrate Their 40 Year Anniversary With A Heartfelt Love Letter To Their Home City On New Album! The city of New York has been the epicenter of American music ever since Duke Ellington told composer Billy Strayhorn to take the “A” train from Brooklyn to Harlem in 1940. Sinatra, The Dolls, …
Say Psych: Album Review: Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters…
Bubbling up from the psychedelic tar pits of L.A., Frankie and the Witch Fingers have been a constant source of primordial groove for the better part of the last decade. Formed and incubated in Bloomington before moving west to scrap with Los Angeles’ garage rock rabble, the band evolved from cavern-clawed echo merchants to architects …
Not Forgotten: ‘wrinkle’, the early EP from 2/3 of ‘The Cribs’
Prior to forming The Cribs with younger brother Ross, Jarman twins Gary and Ryan made a smattering of noisy goodness as wrinkle. The EP was recorded in 2001 at Springtime Studios in Huddersfield, through with Andy Briggs on drums. Gary Jarman recently discussed the band on 22 Grand Pod, a podcast celebrating seminal bands from …
Track: Magick Mountain – King Cobra
Leeds band Magick Mountain have announced details of their debut album ‘Weird Feelings’ set for independent release on Oct 23rd. In anticipation they have shared single ‘King Cobra’. In true garage rock style the guitars are dirty and raucous with floor scraping bass and cymbal troubling drums. Yet in contrast the vocals sound sweet and innocent with the soaring “yeahs” and …
See: Bully Share Video For Track ‘Every Tradition’
Bully will release their new album SUGAREGG worldwide on August 21st through Sub Pop. In celebration, Bully’s Alicia Bognanno has shared a new video for the single “Every Tradition”, which she co-directed remotely with Alan Del Rio Ortiz. Pivoting traditional video making techniques due to the pandemic, Del Rio Ortiz and Bognanno aimed to make something simple …
News: Knuckle Release a Live Album – Live At Warehouse 23
Huddersfield & Wakefield based garage rock-trio Knuckle have released a new live album – Live at Warehouse 23 via Philophobia Music. Recorded at their massive headline show at Wakefield’s Warehouse 23. The venue for their launch for their debut album ‘Life Is Hard When You’re Soft Inside’. On the 9th of November 2019, Knuckle played their …
News: The Subways Record A Brand New Version Of ‘Rock & Roll Queen’
Isolated in their respective domains (Josh in France, Charlotte in Sheffield, and Billy in Hertfordshire), The Subways have attempted to curb the frustration of their tour being cancelled, by recording a brand new version of seminal single ‘Rock & Roll Queen’ – available exactly 15 years since its initial release. Not satisfied with just one version, frontman Billy Lunn …
Premiere: The Total Rejection release new video for ‘Gravy’
We’ve already fallen pretty much head over heels for Garage / Psych rockers The Total Rejection, and their forthcoming album The Time Traveller’s 3rd Will & Testament’ (Raving Pop Blast! Records), which you can peruse at your leisure here, so we’re delighted to premiere the new video for the track ‘Gravy’, right here on Backseat Mafia. …
Album Review: The Total Rejection – The Time Traveller’s 3rd Will And Testament
Remember when gigs were a thing? Last year I went to a pub in Salford to see Bristol’s The Total Rejection in all their raucous glory. The gig was fantastic, like seeing ‘65 era The Who playing The Seeds or 13th Floor Elevators songs at full pelt and full volume. They may well wear their influences on …