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Album review: TEKE::TEKE – ‘Shirushi’: a deliciously wonky, delectably trippy psych debut

RULE one: Japanese bands do brilliant, brilliant things with guitars: this is just fact. From the mind-blowing chaos of Melt-Banana to the heavy psych stylings of Acid Mothers Temple and…

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See: The lyric video for the flute-punk rush of TEKE::TEKE’s ‘Barbara’

WE LOVE them, you know; TEKE::TEKE, the Montrealais-Japanese septet who formed initially for a one-off tribute show to Japanese king of the surf guitar Takeshi Terauchi, and who have since delighted…

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See: The video for the riffin’ psych garage swirl of TEKE::TEKE’s ‘Yoru Ni’

MONTREAL’S adopted TEKE:TEKE, the Japanese psych-prog-garage septet who are busy doing all the great things Japanese bands do to trippy guitar music, have released another little cracker ahead of their…

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NEWS: Kill Rock Stars announce debut album from Japanese garage-psych wonderkids TEKE::TEKE; see the video for ‘Meikyu’

JAPANESE psych-rock septet TEKE::TEKE, who these days call not only Montreal but Kill Rock Stars home, are pleased as punch to reveal their debut set for the label, Shirushi, will…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Tele Novella – ‘Merlynn Belle’: a quirky country-psych-folk charmer

Tele Novella's humble country-psych-folk sincerity is magic. They have, quite simply, a belief in the power of song. Timeless, quirky and utterly charming.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Tamar Aphek – ‘All Bets Are Off’: superb opening salvo from Tel Aviv power trio

Tamar Aphek takes the power trio thing and moves it forward into new psych-blues-rock territories with elegance and so much fire. She also might just be the best new noisy guitar stylist since Joey Santiago and John Dwyer. She's potent and has a voice of real elegance, and sonic firepower, and tunes, and the future is very, very bloody bright indeed

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Track: Mike Watt + The Black Gang – Rebel Girl

Bass legend covers a riot grrrl classic.

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SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Paper Crown’: The Great American Songbook remade in absolute sweetness

WITH their wholly seductive new album Merlynn Belle just around the corner now – eeep! exciting, it’ll be out on Kill Rock Stars on February 5th – Texas psych-European-retro-country duo Tele Novella…

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SEE: Tamar Aphek – ‘Russian Winter’: power trio scorcher will thaw your January

SHE’S pretty much already Tel Aviv’s favourite guitar-wielding daughter, Tamar Aphek; and if you like your power trios full of flame and energy and neo-psych atmospheres akin to the Jimi…

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SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Never’: a sweet song of loss and yearning with Super 8 footage

TEXAS TWOSOME Tele Novella, who memorably describe themselves on Twitter as “coin-operated medieval pop songs through a 1950s western lens” (and that’s totally on the money) have today released a…

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