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The Tremolo Beer Gut - Live, Beyond Our Means

Everything that The Tremolo Beer Gut has released so far has been quality from start to finish, and this is no exception. This is a live album, all one take or as their drummer put it to me "All is recorded on the same night and all we recorded ended up on the LP". And it sounds exactly like a live album ought to: crisp, all parts audible, energetic, and with the sound of the room clearly audible. They all sounded pretty faithful to the album versions to me, except with more hootin' and hollerin' from the crowd and the band.

From: 12/11/2015 - 08:20


B11 -  Surf My Spy EP

B11 have a playful, experimental approach to surf, with an almost jazzy atmosphere to it. The wonky, showy guitar licks remind me of Double Naught Spy Car or even Shadowy Men. They pick up a bit with a more traditional surf song at the end with the title track "Surf My Spy". Give it a listen-see.

From: 12/10/2015 - 08:04


The Gnarly Ones - The Gnarly Ones EP

This is the debut EP from this powerful Canadian quintet. The Gnarly Ones' aesthetic suggests a metal or punk influence, but this is pretty straight surf, maybe with a mean face on. They've even got a ballad in there with "Pontiac Sunfire", though the rest are loud, pounding, and dangerous. It's very well produced, sounds great when you turn it up, and the saxophone definitelty adds but doesn't overpower.

From: 12/10/2015 - 07:51


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While I may have made release writeups for most of these (which is kind of blowing my mind right now), it's really cool to see a huge list to get a good picture of just how alive instro rock&roll still is today. So here's what I was able to dig up. I'm sure I've missed a few, please point them out. There's no meaningfulness to the order, and articles that aren't linked didn't get a writeup (no meaningfulness there either, sometimes I just didn't get around to it).

LPs

Which I'm (generously) defining as 6 songs or more unless the band explicitly calls it an EP

From: 12/29/2015 - 07:48
Tags: 2015


this week's plays

Went to a record show this weekend and picked up some pretty great 45s (plus The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird LP for $2!). So you'll definitely get to hear some of those, as well as some new stuff by Los Freneticos, Black Flamingos, Kingargoolas and more.

From: 12/07/2015 - 14:20
Tags: playlist


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