The Fallouts - De Vlieg [Netherlands garage beat 1966-67] 2000 Op Art OPART 020 Indiscrimination - So Sad [Netherlands blues rock 1967] 2000 Op-Art 001 The Thunders - Johnny's Back [Netherlands garage, beat 1965-66] 1998 Op Art 006 ..read more

  #1 CMJ chart-topper from the glory days of college radio and the classic 1984 LP from the pride of New London, CT.  "You know, rock and roll like you dream about it." - Robert Christgau, The Village Voice "If I were The Replacements I'd be looking over my shoulder at these guys; they're far too good to ignore." Option Magazine, 1985 The Reducers ..read more

  The Leepers were no different from all the other hopefuls all looking for stardom except they had the look, the attitude and two great song writers in their ranks in the way of Gary Simpson & Pete Helmer along with Paul Helmer playing bass and Sav on drums. One of Petes other brothers (John) had already found fame in the up-and-coming Brighton based band The Piranhas.. With MOD sweeping the country back in 1979, the band had a shared interest in the 60s. The lifestyle, the music, the scooters AND above everything else THE CLOTHES! The band were courted by several record labels but ..read more

  This was one of the most important bands of the first Punk wave in California. They were a band apart, with a lot of political content in their lyrics. Here are two of their three singles plus ten live cuts from 1977-1981. Their leaders, the Kinman brothers, started Rank & File in the mid 80's. Dils ..read more

  Rising like the phoenix from the ashes of the first version of the band; The Haskels served up heavy doses of three minute, adrenaline-fueled hard punk pop, as evidenced on the highly sought after, Killed by Death bootlegged, “Taking the City by Storm” EP released in 1981 on their own Milwaukee Hits label. Now the full story of the band can be heard, seen, and told. As the decade turned from the rust belt 70’s to the Reagan-era 80’s, the original Haskels (see their self-titled LP released last year on Splunge) split into two factions, with the local punk/new wave/post-punk scene moving ..read more

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Billed as “Canada’s All Indian Band,” the Tsimshian Nation garage band The Chieftones stormed the U.S. in the mid-’60s with their own brand of native rock n’ roll. Led by guitarists Billy Thunderkloud and Albert Canadien, the band was filled out with Jack Wolf on lead guitar, Barry Clifford on bass, and Richard Douse on drums. Their repertoire was a heady mix of guitar instrumentals; Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Duane Eddy, and Brazil’s Los Indios Tabajaras, but through the lens of the American sock hop. After a brief stint at Edmonton’s Alberta College, The Chieftones hit the road, eventually sett ..read more

  Empire was an offshoot of punk legends Generation X, very influential for the '80s Washington D.C. hardcore and UK neo-psychedelic scenes, acting somehow as the missing link between new wave and grunge. “Expensive Sound” was originally released in 1981, their music was raw, bare, warm—distinct from the glacial, antiseptic pop that would dominate the decade. While “Expensive Sound” may be better known for the bands it inspired — the neo-psychedia of The Stone Roses and the athletic fretwork of Fugazi — they deserve appreciation on their own merits: one of the finest guitar pop record ..read more

  The Blackjacks were a four-piece band from Boston who released one sole full-length record plus an EP called "Basic" in the mid-1980s. They remind me of bands like Infidels or The Outnumbered but they played a very personal brand of potent garage pop, track 'Zeroing in on Me' being quite representative of their sound, but they could also play more refined songs like the jangly tune 'Possession' or the poppy 'Simple Math' which John Borack himself listed among the "100 Killer Pop Tunes" of all time in his "Shake Some Action" book. The best song on here is probably 'That's Why I Alwa ..read more

  Spare Parts In The Cuca Garage - From The Stacks ..read more