The Rizzos, one of Brooklyn’s finest purveyors of garage pop, have returned with their second full-length LP, the mature How It Was. Recorded over the span of four years in DIY home studios, How It Was finds the band polishing up their songwriting and arranging chops, with guitarist/singer Megan Mancini and bassist/producer Justin Ferraro fully coming into their own. This record shows off the power trio’s vast versatility by featuring both somber ballads and danceable punk nuggets that all display a strong emphasis on melody. The band’s ability to rock out hard while still retaining this stron ..read more

(cover image photo by Samuel D. Quinn) Start your week off on a surreal note with a brand new music video from The Prefab Messiahs. Boston’s psych-garage pop legends, The Prefab Messiahs, are back with “Bubbles,” a catchy new song with a trippy and sardonic animated video. Ripe with sizzling riffs and a biting social commentary, this track will get stuck in your head for hours and get you stoked for the group’s upcoming LP, Music For Concerned Citizens (out July 9th). Check it out below: If you dug this new single, be sure to click here to preorder the upcoming album head of its July release ..read more

The Brooklyn Drum Collective and Our Wicked Lady are both invaluable resources to indie and fledgling artists in the Brooklyn area, so it’s a total thrill seeing them team up together with a hellishly tight roster of indie garage and punk bands on this killer live release. The Brooklyn Drum Collective is a totally grassroots organization that works to bring established and up and coming musicians together to exchange valuable knowledge and experience. They’ve fostered a safe and all-inclusive music community through things like workshops, drum clinics, repairing and selling equipment and gear ..read more

With their latest single, “Something About That Girl,” The Blind Owls are more explosive than ever. This Texan group are known for being one of the most raw and incandescent acts in modern garage rock, but they blaze through this track at breakneck speed and with a rabid fury. Right from the start, guitars rev up like Harleys while relentless machine gun drumming and howling maniac vocals propel the song forward with the energy of a nuclear rocket. The power that’s packed into the track’s two minutes and twenty seconds is so wild and so carnal, it’s impossible to hear it without feeling its s ..read more