9th February 2010

Audio with 44 plays with 8 notes

Shannon & the Clams - Blast Me to Bermuda
I Wanna Go Home (1-2-3-4-Go!)

Pardon the cliche form of this sentence, but if Mark Sultan and the Pleasure Seekers had a baby, it would be these gross cross-dressers SUPER-HOT LADIES.  I Wanna Go Home has that reverby, lo-fi garage appeal, but more centered on doo-wop.  The perfect gig for Shannon & the Clams would be a high-school dance in the 1950’s; they’ve got lots of slow jams, but everything on the record still emits high amounts of energy.

I’m less interested in music to hold your baby to, so I’m recommending you check out “Cat Party” and “Blast Me to Bermuda,” both tracks under two minutes, and loud as shit.  But if you’re looking for a slow-dance, you might try the title track, “I Wanna Go Home.”

Tagged: stuck in thee garagerebel girl

8th October 2009

Audio with 5 plays

Vivian Girls - Out for the Sun 
Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red)

The new Vivian Girls record is ballin’. If you liked their debut self-titled LP, then you’ll like this.  It’s more lo-fi garage stuff, but this time, they apparently wanted to take the time to perfect it, so they took six days to record it, instead of the three they used for the last record.  I think it worked, because, in my opinion, this one blows the last one out of the water.  Any other week of the year, this would definitely be the best release, but competing with the new Mission of Burma and Yo La Tengo records makes it a tough decision.  But it’s most definitely in the Top 3 of a stellar week.

Incidentally, I was looking at videos of them, and I noticed that the bassist is the hot one in the group.  What the fuck kind of bizarro-world is this band from?

Tagged: rebel girlstuck in thee garagehipster trash