garage Archive
29 May 2022
EP Review The Fuzztones – Encore
For forever now, The Fuzztones have been bringing their trademark version of garage punk to enthusiastic listeners. In recent years, main Fuzztone Rudi Protrudi has turned his focus toward tributes, […]
16 Apr 2022
30 Days Out, April 2022 #2: Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, Karla Bonoff, Victor Wooten, Brian Jonestown Massacre
Steel-pan jazz, classic singer-songwriter, visionary funk/jam/beyond, and real rock ‘n’ roll. Those are merely the highlights of what’s featured in and around Asheville live-music-wise in the next 30 days. Artist: […]
27 Jan 2022
Album Review: The Grip Weeds – Dig
If you’re a band that has a well-earned reputation for top-notch original material, an album of covers had better add something worthwhile to listeners’ understanding and appreciation of what you […]
13 Jan 2022
Boxed Set Review: Fuzztones Salute the Greats
For decades now, The Fuzztones have been doing the important work of keeping the garage punk flame burning. Originally a New York City aggregation, the band led by Rudi Protrudi […]
18 Sep 2021
30 Days Out, September 2021 #2: Schizophonics , Side Pony, Dirty Logic, Thievery Corporation
Lots of cool choices for live music in and around Asheville in the coming thirty days. By now, you know the drill: Most venues are requiring proof of vaccination or […]
29 Jun 2021
Album Review: Various Artists – Yesterday’s Tomorrow
If you’re at all familiar with the alternate and/or college rock scenes of the 1970s and ‘80s, you’ll know the names Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, producer of R.E.M.), Peter Holsapple […]
14 May 2021
Book Review: Rudi Protrudi — As Times Gone
I’m on record as being an ardent Fuzztones fan. And while the band has created plenty of music to satisfy fans’ cravings for garagefuzzpunk, those similarly inclined are apt to […]
13 May 2021
Book Review: Rudi Protrudi — The Fuzztone
Note: While perusing the newest book by the Fuzztones’ Rudi Protrudi, I made a discovery: a review I wrote more than four years ago has somehow failed to be published […]
26 Mar 2021
Cool Ghouls Make Fuller Use of the Studio on ‘At George’s Zoo’
Launched in 2011, San Francisco band Cool Ghouls is celebrating its decade of rock and roll by releasing its fourth studio album, At George’s Zoo. The new record builds on […]
28 Jan 2021
Album Review: The Fuzztones — NYC
Though they first came on the scene in the middle of the ‘80s garage rock revival, The Fuzztones have endured. And they’ve remained busy this past decade and a half. […]