tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89567168339272982732010-07-22T21:23:11.275-04:00psych ~ garage ~ mod ~ punk ~ r&b ~ experimental ~ diyScott Salsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213087700462231835scott.salsman@gmail.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956716833927298273.post-52910589776586662562010-04-12T08:59:00.000-04:002010-04-12T08:59:25.130-04:002010-04-12T08:59:25.130-04:00

A new music video from Los Angeles noise makers HEALTH is making its way around the nets. I don't feel comfortable posting it here because it has a very graphic horror theme (and I'm not sure who reads this blog!). The track is called "We Are Water", and it's on last fall's album Get Color, their second. The music is great and suits the visuals very well. The track contains vocals but is very

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A bit of Thee Oh Sees news coming to us from The Bay Bridged in San Francisco. I've been slowly falling in love with this John Dwyer-led band over the past year. Anna Gazdowicz reports: April 8, 2010 Thee Oh Sees... are set to release another album of garage-rock proportions. Warm Slime comes out on May 11th via In the Red, who also released 2009’s Help. Of course, the band’s also been releasing

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Breaking news. Pretty big for the punk rock world. Agent says Sex Pistols’ former manager Malcolm McLaren has died in New York aged 64, EU| Published: 04/08/10 at 1:58 PMLONDON (AP) — Agent says Sex Pistols’ former manager Malcolm McLaren has died in New York aged 64.

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Great to know that real R&B is still alive and well in some pockets of the world. Here's a gem of a clip from the debut performance of The Mellomatics, a classic R&B revival band fronted by Binky Griptite of The Dap-Kings (whose new album on Daptone Records I saw at Starbucks this week). This took place this past December at the Soul Bowl event at Brooklyn Bowl, a bowling alley and music venue.

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There are several videos of performances by Bloodshot Bill floating around, but this is the one that got me. He’s pretty amazing as far as one-man bands go. Some call his style “sludgebilly”, and this term seems to apply only to Bloodshot Bill and to the duo Deja Voodoo, also of Montreal, who wrote the first song that Bill performs in this video. “Skeleton at My Party” was track 3 on Deja Voodoo’

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Goodbye to Alex Chilton, vocalist and guitarist for The Box Tops and Big Star and a respected solo musician. Died at age fifty-nine of a heart attack on St. Patty's Day. Here's both sides of a Box Tops single from 1967. The Box Tops - Neon Rainbow/She Knows How (1967) Sorry for the short post. Work has me very busy. See better tributes at Iron Leg and Aquarium Drunkard. Have a good weekend.

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I got to thinking about whether there’s a band that might suit all the musical descriptors listed at the top of this blog—psych, garage, mod, punk, R&B, experimental and DIY. A few bands come to mind, such as The Who (though they didn’t keep it in the garage very long and weren’t very punk at all by 1966), as well as The Monks (but how can a band who actually dressed like monks be called "mod"?).

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So here's the deal: Roky Erickson, founding member of one of Austin's greatest bands of all time, the 13th Floor Elevators, is putting out a new album on ANTI- Records on April 20th, and it's a collaboration with Austin indie rock band Okkervil River. The album will be called True Love Cast Out All Evil. This will be his first album of new material since All That May Do My Rhyme in 1995.

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This blog had a shaky start, but I think it’s beginning to hit its stride. It’s not intended for sharing MP3s, but I’ve linked enough blogs in the sidebar to keep you in free music for the rest of your life. This blog exists mostly to talk about music along with embedded video that other people have posted. I am, however, doing extensive research to bring you a podcast featuring music from

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I just received this video in my e-mail from the good folks at Kepler Music. Shilpa Ray is a harmonium-rocking chick from Brooklyn with a very unique voice, and boy can she rock. Here she is with her Happy Hookers creating quite a buzz at SXSW last March. This band can get down! Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers (Club de Ville, Austin, TX, March 2009) Pro-Tip: You can stream their whole album

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My wife Tara found out about this gig, and we're mad stoked. We saw a band in NYC several months ago called GeTSeT. They're a true New York mod band who sound sort of like a cross between The Jam and Buzzcocks. Our friend Arly Silver (pictured left; we met up after the set) writes complex lyrics and takes his art quite seriously. Tara checked out their MySpace because we're planning to be down

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Alright, this guy doesn't know me, but I feel a kinship with him. Check out gigiriva's incredible garage punk mixes from the '50s up to now at 8tracks.com (I recommend starting at the bottom to get the full chronological effect). His blog and lists on rateyourmusic.com (linked on his profile) are pretty great, too. 8tracks.com is a pretty neat site, by the way. You can put a half-hour mix

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Here are a few albums I've collected from other blogs in the past couple of weeks... Psychedelic Jazz and Soul from the Atlantic and Warner Vaults and More Psychedelic Jazz and Soul from the Atlantic and Warner Vaults Groovy tunes that were great for my flight to Miami last weekend From Fix It in the Mix (that dude posts a lot) Ugly Things, Vol. 1 Australian garage tunes from back in the

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I'm partial to bands who are inspired by weird movies, particularly horror movies. The Mummies, formed in 1988 in San Mateo, California, were a band with a ridiculously obvious gimmick (all band members wore mummy costumes at every show, usually with something rude written upon them), but their music and attitude were inspired. They took old fashioned garage/R&B to extreme levels and influenced a

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A band called Eat Skull opened their latest album with one of my favorite songs of the past year. "Stick to the Formula", track 1 on last April's Wild and Inside, is a high energy, raucous piece of noise pop that most people will either love or hate. Or they'll think it's ok. (Joke borrowed from Mitch Hedberg.) Seriously, though, folks, this is a well-crafted song turned up to 12, and the

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Whew! I did not expect to post this seldom. When the economy starts taking off, like I hear it has been, American workers get busy! It's a good thing, but all my hobbies are suffering as a result. Anyhow, here's another "punky", sludgy rock band with a female singer/songwriter, but this one's from America (Dayton, Ohio, to be exact, where I lived for a year-and-a-half). The Amps were the

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Here's a great song that you may not have heard, by England's The Duke Spirit. This video has scenes from NBC's Bionic Woman, which I didn't see. This is the only YouTube video featuring this song. So please enjoy "Darling, You're Mean", their first single from their 2005 debut album, Cuts Across the Land. The video includes babes, guns, wall-punching, puking, someone being thrown across a room,

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