Vintage languid and drowsy instrumental surf dirge courtesy of the Truants. File under: fake nostalgia. MP3: The Truants :: Sunset Surf ——————— _____________________________________________________________________________________

My friend John turned out Ramsay Midwood’s “Spinning On This Rock” earlier this week dj’ing on Turntable.fm. Found on the absolute classic Shoot Out At The Chinese Restaurant, Midwood comes on strong eating vowels like nobody’s business with a voice/vibe like Bobby Charles and Link Wray playing Russian roulette in a woodshed.  Also, in what [...]

(Our friends at Light In The Attic Records have gone ahead and done justice to one of our favorite records, Jim Ford’s Harlan County. We are giving away a copy of the deluxe vinyl reissue. To enter, leave a comment with your favorite LITA reissue, below. The following is an old AD post on Ford [...]

There are enough worthwhile vanity pressings from the late 60s – mid 70s that make collecting a rewarding interest, though the really good ones (the Bachs, the Rising Storm, Wilson McKinley, Relatively Clean Rivers et al) are far and few between. Most of these records, while musically very good, are overpriced because so few quantities [...]

The twisted nonchalance of Dan Sartain should appeal to most anyone with even a passing interest in Cramps style rockabilly, Jon Spencer’s Heavy Trash, and gen-u-wine punk inflected rock & roll. Check out “Atheist Funeral,” track six off his latest, Dan Sartain Lives, below. MP3: Dan Sartain :: Atheist Funeral —————— _____________________________________________________________________________________

Sounding like a long lost, sun-kissed, Misfits single, L.A.’s Clavin sisters, formerly of Mika Miko, have a new project dubbed Bleached with 7″ on the horizon via Art Fag Records out next month. The A-side, “Think of You,” below. MP3: Bleached :: Think of You ——————— _____________________________________________________________________________________

The dig…parsing through the archives, the muck. I suppose it’s what separates the men from the boys when it comes to the Robert Pollard canon.  Pollard, who on average releases several albums of material per year (going back to the early Guided By Voices days) is set to drop Let It Beard on August 2nd—a [...]

While college radio may have lost some ground over the past 15 years, I discovered the following while passing through Atlanta last week listening to WRAS 88.5. Via Slumberland Records comes Belfast’s Girls Names, an infectious fuzzy take on dirty shoegaze with pop pull. “I Lose,” culled from the group’s new LP Dead To Me, [...]

Punk rock changed Mike Watt’s life, and then he kept changing. Along with guitarist D. Boon and drummer George Hurley, Watt was a member of the Minutemen, one of the earliest signees to Greg Ginn’s SST Records, the legendary hardcore label that served as breeding grounds not only for Minutemen and Ginn’s Black Flag, but [...]

Los Angeles’s Les Blanks released In Country, their second full-length, earlier this year. Continuing in the vein of their debut the record is another solid slice of rock & roll that eschews trends opting for the classic. In May Blanks’ vocalist/keys-man Josh Caldwell ran down some of his favorite L.A. film moments over at the [...]