White Wires
CoCoComa
Ty Segal
Davila 666
(at least they're all new to me)
October 18, 2009 11:50 AM CDT
White Wires
CoCoComa
Ty Segal
Davila 666
(at least they're all new to me)
October 17, 2009 7:07 PM CDT
charlie and the moonhearts are the shit.... Dead Ghosts from Vancouver... Hellshovel(Jeff Clark side project)... pretty much anything on the telephone explosion label
October 17, 2009 5:33 PM CDT
The Love Me Nots.
I repeat...
The Love Me Nots.
October 17, 2009 2:56 PM CDT
Weirdies, 905's, White Wires, Sedatives, Skirt Chasers, Angry Dragons, Speaking Tongues, Statues, Pack AD, Lonesome Ghost and more....
October 16, 2009 10:14 PM CDT
Best Live band i've seen in a long time is The Amino Acids from detroit. Dont miss a chance to see this band.
October 16, 2009 10:10 PM CDT
okie dokie, charlie & the moonhearts, audacity, traditional fools...
out with a bang!
October 16, 2009 1:33 PM CDT
Shake it like a Caveman
October 16, 2009 5:53 AM CDT
Hex Dispensers
October 15, 2009 9:45 AM CDT
Always appreciate R. Fink's efforts on Rock 'n' Roll Suicide to bring us new bands. What sort of new stuff are you guys listening to these days?
Personally, I've really been into Ty Segall's side projects, Wau y Los Arrgh's, and some of the Slovenly Records 7-inches lately. And not really garage, but I've been digging hardcore band No Friends. They just put out a solid LP on No Idea records.
October 18, 2009 10:04 AM CDT
how about the white shites or the small faeces, these were names suggested to me a few years back.
dont worry if its already taken unless its another good garage band doing good rock'n'roll, if its a crappy pop band or indie band then steal it and reclaim rock'n'roll!
October 16, 2009 5:18 AM CDT
Google is your friend in such things! Just google "the insects" band and you have the answer - it is/was already in use. In times of internet I'm always confused how bands can form with names that are already in use. Could think they don't do any research ...
October 16, 2009 3:58 AM CDT
I'v always liked The Insects. I dunno if it's been used though. Probably has.
October 17, 2009 5:40 PM CDT
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
October 16, 2009
Now here's a musician with a pretty impressive résumé. Brian Tristan, the El Monte, California, native better known as Kid Congo Powers, has been a member of The Cramps as well as of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The Gun Club.
Dracula Boots, his new record with his band The Pink Monkey Birds, doesn't sound much like any of those previous groups. But it's addictive from the very first track, "LSDC," in which, over a repeated fuzz-guitar lick and "Funky Drummer" drums, Powers, in his gravely voice, tells an incomprehensible story that starts off with "It was a rocket, the room was chilly." Occasionally, he repeats the line, "Como se llama, mama." That's the MO in a lot of the tracks here — insane riffage with Powers reciting (rather than singing) strange tales in the background.
This first track is followed by "Found a Peanut," a cover of a tune by East L.A. '60s rockers Thee Midnighters. And yes, this song is based on a children's song you probably haven't heard since the playground.
There are lots of instrumentals, like "Funky Fly" and the slow-moving "Bobo Boogie," with Powers laying down cool basic psychedelic guitar as Kiki Solis' bass rumbles, Ron Miller's drums send coded messages from the jungle, and electronic effects sizzle in the background. Sometimes there's New Wave-y keyboards adding some science-fiction zing to the mix.
Powers often sounds sinister in songs like "La Llorona," in which he sets the legendary wailing-woman ghost in Juárez ("Lost her husband, drowned her children/Filled with shame, poor La Llorona took her life/Now she cries, weeps and wails by the Río Grande.").
But that's not quite as spooky as "Late Night Scurry," which reminds me of some of Angelo Badalamenti's creepy experimental tracks like "The Black Dog Runs at Night" on the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me soundtrack album.
Hey, Christmas is a-comin' and there are a couple of titles here suggesting Yuletide. However, neither "Black Santa," an instrumental in which Powers' guitar soundsmower, nor "Kris Kringle Juju" sound much like "Jingle Bells." This record was released several months ago, so I'm not sure why there's this Santa Claus undercurrent.
The truth is, Dracula Boots would sound great during any season.
Also recommended:
* Raw, Raw Rough! by Barrence Whitfield. Barrence still is a savage!
Raw, which was released earlier this year, is Whitfield's first solo album since 1995's Ritual of the Savages. But he's still got that early rock 'n' roll/crazed R & B spirit that was so refreshing when he burst out of Boston with his band The Savages in the mid-'80s.
Whitfield, whose real name is Barry White (for reals!) is best known as a frenzied shouter. He probably gets sick of Little Richard comparisons, but in many ways such talk is well deserved. His song "Mama Get the Hammer" (the hammer is needed because "there's flies on the baby's head") was crazy enough to have been a mas originally done by a group called The Bobby Peterson Quintet.
Here Whitfield plays with a basic stripped-down band — guitar, bass, drums, and sax. They wail and stomp as Barrence sings with such abandon that he makes Screamin' Jay Hawkins look shy.
Some of my favorites include "Kissing Tree," "Early Times," and the opener, "Geronimo Stomp." And let's not forget the one with the unwieldy title: "I Need Love and Affection, Not the House of Correction."
Also worthy are Whitfield's tributes to not one but two classic Pacific Northwest garage bands. He covers "Strychnine" by The Sonics (loyal readers will recall I mentioned a version of that by The Fuzztones in a recent column — it has also been covered by The Cramps, The Fall, and Thee Headcoatees) and a near-forgotten classic by The Kingsmen, "Long Green" (which was also a minor hit for New Mexico's Jimmy Gilmer & Fireballs back in the late '60s).
Though the rowdy shakers are his main strength, Whitfield shows that he can handle some "slow dances." "One More Time" and "I Don't Want to Be in Your Shoes" are actually pretty — in an Otis Redding kind of pretty.
* Do the Wurst, Mojo Workout, and Shake It Wild by King Salami & The Cumberland Three. These download-only titles include an EP (Mojo Workout) and two "singles," totaling eight songs. The first two were released in August, while Shake It Wild came out last year.
This band, hailing from England, reminds me of another King, one by the name of Khan. Like King Khan's work with The Shrines, Salami melds high-charged soul with punk rock. But The Cumberland Three is a much smaller group than Khan's Shrines, so the sound is more stripped-down.
Though R & B is the group's bread and butter, Salami tries his hand at surf music on "Uprising." It sounds like "Apache" by The Shadows (complete with tacky faux Indian war cries). Meanwhile, "Birdog" is a ska-like takeoff of The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird." But my favorite is "Mojo Workout," a cover of the tune by Bobby Long & His Satellites. It's a powerful R & B celebration.
Released on the British Dirty Water label, these are available from Amazon, iTunes, or eMusic.
October 17, 2009 3:49 PM CDT
Yer a Bad Boy, which reminds me. Larry Williams' original version of that song makes me laugh as do Coasters tunes and it's probably because I was anywhere between 8 and 12 when I first heard a lot of these but tunes like The Witchdoctor, Purple People Eater, and Baby Sittin' Boogie make me laugh. Wipeout! said:
Rockin Rod Strychnine said:I thought Thin Lizzy did a song called JailBREAK (and don't confuse that with the tune by AC-DC)
Wipeout! said:Roscoe Holland "Stick out your can" and I'll second that Black Godfather tune "Jailbait" (plz don't confuse with the Thin Lizzy tune...)
Ya are most definitely correct, sir ...blame it on the drugs, but I can't fer the life of me figure why on earth I woulda confused Andre Williams and Phil Lynott's respective musical endeavors...
...guess I just got jailbait on the brain
October 17, 2009 9:14 AM CDT
Rockin Rod Strychnine said:
Ya are most definitely correct, sir ...blame it on the drugs, but I can't fer the life of me figure why on earth I woulda confused Andre Williams and Phil Lynott's respective musical endeavors... ...guess I just got jailbait on the brainI thought Thin Lizzy did a song called JailBREAK (and don't confuse that with the tune by AC-DC)
Wipeout! said:Roscoe Holland "Stick out your can" and I'll second that Black Godfather tune "Jailbait" (plz don't confuse with the Thin Lizzy tune...)
October 17, 2009 3:52 AM CDT
I thought Thin Lizzy did a song called JailBREAK (and don't confuse that with the tune by AC-DC) Wipeout! said:
Roscoe Holland "Stick out your can" and I'll second that Black Godfather tune "Jailbait" (plz don't confuse with the Thin Lizzy tune...)
October 16, 2009 12:56 PM CDT
Who the hell cares about two shitty bands having a fight.....if you like either,cool....but this has nothing to do with the music that either play...the music is what you should be talking about...both suck!HA!Has anybody heard that the Black Lips eat tuna casserole?No...because it dont meen fuck all!ERK!
October 16, 2009 9:46 AM CDT
Who the fuck is Wavves?
Who the fuck wrote this piece of shit article or blog?
Who the fuck cares?
October 16, 2009 5:55 AM CDT
Boring... both bands suck
October 15, 2009 5:19 PM CDT
sad sad news indeed.Blue Cheer was probably the first stonerrock band ever. i saw them like 3 times it was always a pleasure to see them rock like there's no tomorrow.
magnolia caboose babyfinger, come and get it & out of focus are my favorites but i also love their later stuff
Dickie Peterson, you will be missed
love
tobi joi
October 15, 2009 12:10 PM CDT
You can't edit Wikipedia anymore unless you're logged in... mark young said:
He just needs an externally sourced footnote.
I think Kopper needs to round up some GP record labels that have wikipedia page and have them link to GPPN wikipage. It'll help with the missing notoriety within the wiki network. And kopper, do all your editing at work, without being logged in.
Johnny Singles said:He's put a 'citation needed' on the claim that it's "the leading[citation needed] social network, media center and blog portal... etc..." even though that's upheld by the rest of the paragraph (18,500 hits a day, 3000 members, 'Featured Podcast' on iTunes, what other proof in needed?).
October 14, 2009 5:47 PM CDT
I dont likes em all that much...never really got em or cared for em.....Im sure there are people on here...who go nuts for them and probablY disagree with what I have to say....but I dont care...cos Im right!HA!Different strokes for .....yadda,yadda,yack,yack!
October 14, 2009 3:36 AM CDT
Seeing them live in San Francisco definitely confirmed that I hate them now. Seeing them headline FYF Fest made me forget I ever liked them.
October 14, 2009 12:15 AM CDT
Seen the Black Lips a few times..they used to put on a really good show. Now its..i dunno..really odd. Best album Los Valientes...200 million thousand could have been better. Elijah's great, I'll be with you too...As people they're alright. Jared gave me and my friend free shirts, Ian's chatty as hell, Joe played an encore alone and Cole's uh well he's a looker. oh his Old King Cole Younger's stuff's pretty good
October 14, 2009 5:47 PM CDT
