Surf City - Surf City EP

Fun. What is fun? This is fun. As in, this is really fun music to listen to. Surf City's lyrics are not necessarily decipherable, and this is the best part. Not that the lyrics are bad. But I mean, are you not happy that a song called "Dickshakers Union" is not only listenable, but 1000 times relistenable? This is a quick musical spurt of happy energy and is very much in line with those other gem-like EPs that come out every once in a while like The Little Ones - Sing Song EP and Suckers - Suckers EP...totally full of quirky anthems that cause instantaneous headbobbing. I would call it surfpunk-garage beach psych-pop...except that it's from New Zealand. They have aptly played alongside Surfer Blood at Surf Bar in Brooklyn, NY, a city that is really becoming one of the main vortexes of this new wave of psych music. Buy it at the Amazon link below...and watch for their debut album. No word yet, but passage of time and commensense says soon.

Surf City - Headin' Inside
Surf City - Dickshakers Union

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tattoo

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's new album Beat The Devil's Tattoo is a good mix of their past styles. They have gone through ups and downs trying to define their sound, with the first two albums B.R.M.C. and Take Me On, On Your Own good examples of darker neo-psychedelic garage rock and shoegaze with some sprinklings of retro punk. Howl drifted into americana and folk/acoustic-tinged blues. Baby 81 was a loud mix of bluesy hits and drone-y ballads. and The Effects of 333 was just plain weird (and I like weird...so that's weird). Their 2010 release is reminiscent of their first two albums (not afraid to douse you with ethereal, chunky, and loud walls of sound) but ties in the intense blues feel they played around with later on. Influences from The Jesus and Mary Chain and also Spacemen 3/Spiritualized can definitely be heard on many of the tracks, especially the longer ones. There are Howl-like footstompers, lots of tambourine, dark reverb-drenched waves of electrocuted guitar licks, and just a good mix of loud and soft. Good music for driving...good neo-psychedelia. Couple of tracks (each a different style that they play well) and video (one of their first hits) below. "War Machine" has a very thick and entrancing heavy sound...turn that one up loud. There are a lot of naysayers of this band. I don't see any nay to say about them; they consistently deliver fresh product, are awesome live, and are from San Francisco, a beautiful place.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - War Machine
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tattoo
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Evol

Deli Special

Every once in a while we will post something weird that we found somewhere or was delivered to us, depending on how you look at it/life. Here's a thing: