garage Archive
09 Jun 2017
Album Review: Evolfo — Last of the Acid Cowboys
File next to: Black Keys, King Khan & the Shrines The album’s title might conjure images of – depending on one’s musical frame of reference – the Flying Burrito Brothers […]
18 May 2017
Capsule Reviews for May 2017, Part One
Thank You, Friends (Concord Bicycle Music) I remember a time when seemingly nobody knew about Big Star; happily for me, that was about the time I found “new old stock” […]
15 May 2017
Album Reviews: Three Standells Reissues
From one point of view, The Standells were opportunists. As that story goes, they got their start as a smiling, suited pop group, only changing their sound and collective demeanor […]
05 Aug 2016
The Mystery Lights: Straight Outta the Garage
While some of the harder, more jagged sub-styles of 1960s rock are now justly celebrated, back in the day many of those groups languished in obscurity; the popularity of Nuggets […]
25 Mar 2016
Album Mini-review: Doug Tuttle — It Calls On Me
File next to: Tame Impala, Plasticland, Starling Electric On his self-titled 2014 debut, Doug Tuttle staked out his musical territory: a shimmering, woozy, yet highly tuneful 21st century take on […]
10 Feb 2016
Album Mini-review: Homme — Homme
File Next to: KT Tunstall, The Roches, Radiohead With electric guitars (run through a Leslie speaker cabinet and other assorted effects) and close yet vocal-acrobatic harmonies, the experimental yet inviting […]
04 Feb 2016
Album Mini-review: The Roaring 420s – You Can’t Get Out Alive
File next to: Elephant Stone, Allah-Las, Fuzztones For The Roaring 420s, everything old is new again. Across the twelve songs on *You Can’t Get Out Alive – their second full-length […]
12 Jan 2016
Album Review: Ty Segall — Ty Rex
Modern-day garage rock hero Ty Segall has never been bashful about showing his roots. Listening to both his original material and his musical contributions to others’ work (most notably Mikal […]
01 Jan 2016
Album Mini-review: Motobunny — Motobunny
File next to: The Bangles, Amboy Dukes, Joan Jett It’s quite a tightrope walk to create music that rocks hard – really hard – yet maintains a strong, hooky, singalong […]
13 Nov 2015
November 100-word Reviews, Part 5
My current crop of hundred-word reviews wraps up with some odds and ends, all worth a listen. I generally don’t review from MP3 files, but in a few cases I […]