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QRO is pleased to report that Boston-based garage gods and haiku masters Thick Shakes have their first 7" coming out on Aurora 7 records, tentatively titled Why Buy The Cow due sometime in the spring. We’ve been a fan of the jangly, fuzzed-out foursome since they released Ooh Mommy...
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Here’s a spunky little track from Cincinnati’s No No Knots off their recent EP Quiet to the Night. "The Window" sizzles with pert and perky melodies delivered with dueling synths, tense guitar hooks, and Andrews Sisters-style vocals. It’s a pop sugar speedball mainlined via a candy-coated syringe. The five-piece...
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As part of QRO’s preview of Chicago’s Psych Fest 2 we’re turning our attention towards Dead Luke, a cool character from the flat green and occasionally pond-ed and lake-d expanse of proud Wisconsin. You can see in the photo at right the white thermal bottoms he is forced to...
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A treasure trove of psych getting down in Chicago lately. Mondo Drag arrives next weekend by way of Davenport, Iowa as part of Welcome 2 The Void. So many bands to process! Right now Mondo Drag are sounding like good homespun throwback late 60s/early 70s psych crossed with the...
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Last summer, Eli Escobar released a four-part Love Thing EP, and now it's due for a whole lotta remixing. The esteemed crew that gets their paws on it are: DFA's Runaway, Edbanger's DJ Mehdi, Mike Simonetti, and John Selway. The result is exactly what the original deserved: a gleaming...
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Here’s a band that really grinds out the heavy drone psych. Think of Sonic Youth in a Silver Session mode; Neu on quaaludes; spaced out journeys to the far side of your Saturday night. The band is VERMA, from my own hometown Chicago. Bummed it took me this long...
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Dig the title track from Echo Tongues‘ 7" Lost Found . Seattle-based musician Gary Wilson has a fractured take on the traditional pop ditty. Golden aether, reverbbbed vocals, sweet 50s guitar licks roll out leisurely, with a downbeat Jesus & Mary Chain feel. "Lost Found" unfurls like a cool...
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I’ve been a fan of the Seedy Seeds ever since I reviewed their fantastic full length Count The Days. The Cincinnati trio has a marvelous capacity for seamlessly intertwining folk, country, and electronica elements into upbeat pop gems. Their followup EP Roll Deep crafted a suite of songs that...
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Hot Club de Paris are doing everyone a favor by combining their two 2010 EPs into one digital album. The Liverpool trio are Voltron-ing With Days Like This As Cheap As Chewing Gum, Why Would Anyone Want To Work? and The Rise And Inevitable Fall Of The High School...
QRO is pleased to report that Boston-based garage gods and haiku masters Thick Shakes have their first 7" coming out on Aurora 7 records, tentatively titled Why Buy The Cow due sometime in the spring. We’ve been a fan of the jangly, fuzzed-out foursome since they released Ooh Mommy...
Here’s a spunky little track from Cincinnati’s No No Knots off their recent EP Quiet to the Night. "The Window" sizzles with pert and perky melodies delivered with dueling synths, tense guitar hooks, and Andrews Sisters-style vocals. It’s a pop sugar speedball mainlined via a candy-coated syringe. The five-piece...
As part of QRO’s preview of Chicago’s Psych Fest 2 we’re turning our attention towards Dead Luke, a cool character from the flat green and occasionally pond-ed and lake-d expanse of proud Wisconsin. You can see in the photo at right the white thermal bottoms he is forced to...
A treasure trove of psych getting down in Chicago lately. Mondo Drag arrives next weekend by way of Davenport, Iowa as part of Welcome 2 The Void. So many bands to process! Right now Mondo Drag are sounding like good homespun throwback late 60s/early 70s psych crossed with the...
Last summer, Eli Escobar released a four-part Love Thing EP, and now it's due for a whole lotta remixing. The esteemed crew that gets their paws on it are: DFA's Runaway, Edbanger's DJ Mehdi, Mike Simonetti, and John Selway. The result is exactly what the original deserved: a gleaming...
Here’s a band that really grinds out the heavy drone psych. Think of Sonic Youth in a Silver Session mode; Neu on quaaludes; spaced out journeys to the far side of your Saturday night. The band is VERMA, from my own hometown Chicago. Bummed it took me this long...
Dig the title track from Echo Tongues‘ 7" Lost Found . Seattle-based musician Gary Wilson has a fractured take on the traditional pop ditty. Golden aether, reverbbbed vocals, sweet 50s guitar licks roll out leisurely, with a downbeat Jesus & Mary Chain feel. "Lost Found" unfurls like a cool...
I’ve been a fan of the Seedy Seeds ever since I reviewed their fantastic full length Count The Days. The Cincinnati trio has a marvelous capacity for seamlessly intertwining folk, country, and electronica elements into upbeat pop gems. Their followup EP Roll Deep crafted a suite of songs that...
Hot Club de Paris are doing everyone a favor by combining their two 2010 EPs into one digital album. The Liverpool trio are Voltron-ing With Days Like This As Cheap As Chewing Gum, Why Would Anyone Want To Work? and The Rise And Inevitable Fall Of The High School...