#surf rock

PLAYING DETROITDouble Winter Release Earnest Debut LP It's About Our Hearts

There aren’t many bands that can cultivate a loyal and almost cult following before even releasing a full record, but Detroit psych/surf-rock outfit Double Winter is one such band. After years of playing around the city, the band finally self- released its debut LP, It's About Our Hearts, on March...

Sara Barron

VIDEO PREMIEREFIJI-13 “Mansplain It To Me bb”

Minnesota is a cold place, full of winter warriors trudging through the streets in search of bars with hot tunes. On first listen, FIJI-13 sounds like anything but Minneapolis: they are peppy, surf-infused, and upbeat. Yet on a closer listen, the reality of life seeps through. “Mansplain It To Me...

Ashley Prillaman

ALBUM REVIEWHinds "Leave Me Alone"

Any simplicity in the music of Hinds is made up for in sheer attitude. Except for "The Garden," most of their music videos feature footage of the members goofily singing along to their songs. The Madrid band's personality is just as easily translated on Leave Me Alone, a fun, loose, and effortless...

Emily Daly

OPENING LINESSnap Q and A w/ The Yetis

For this column, we preview the opening acts of live shows we'll be covering, to give exposure to the up-and-comers we're most excited for. Our preferred form is to do off-the-cuff "snap Q and As" with them, to get their thoughts on anything from the mundane to the absurd. For this installment, we...

Marianne White

ALBUM REVIEWGirl Band "Holding Hands With Jamie"

Holding Hands With Jamie by Girl Band is a beautiful mess, more musical noise than noisy music. Guitars squeal like pieces of metal screeching together in a car crash, the bass rolls up and down the fretboard wildly, and as well as some brief singing, vocals come in the form of screams, growls,...

Emily Daly

LIVE REVIEWPlague Bubonika @ Trash Bar

Meet Plague Bubonika. They play thrash-psych-surf-rock, so basically the auditory form of eating sand as a wave tosses your body-surfing ass: oh fuck I think I might die but this is really fun. Fitting for their sound, I was introduced to them in a rad turn of cosmic events, a Twitter friendship...

Sophie Saint Thomas

TRACK REVIEWPenicillin Baby “Stick It Out”

Meet Nashville-based Penicillin Baby. They recently released a new single "“Stick It Out." These psych-pop rockers (Jon Tyler Conant, Charlie Davis, Taylor Lowrance, and Wesley Mitchell) describe themselves as "Space-Trash." Listening to the single, one wonders if they are indeed from outer space,...

Sophie Saint Thomas

LIVE REVIEWThe Muffs @ Del Monte Speakeasy, Venice CA

These days, it seems no one is impervious to nineties nostalgia, least of all Burger Records, who release Whoop Dee Doo on July 29th, the first album of new material from grunge-pop aficionados The Muffs in ten years. The three-piece, consisting of lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Kim Shattuck,...

Callie Ryan