Label: Dirty Water Records

This is a groovy, hip-shaking bastardization of the first Them album that’s been copulating with the energy of The Shadows of Knights. “Things Ain’t Right” is the Count Five reborn – psychotic reaction indeed! But they’re not completely lost in the art of retrofication since they infuse a whole lotta punk attitude in their tunes. Yes! It’s righteous, strip-me-naked-and-paint-me FUZZ RAWK! Forget the Arctic Monkeys or whoever is flavour of the month this month – dial “E” for Exciters if you want your rock’n’roll party to kick some booty, baby!
Vinyl tracklisting:

Most suitable: the newly launched Dirty Water record label (run by those good chaps from the London club of the same name) debut with a 45 by a new London group with a moniker not a million miles away from their own. And yes, it's a suitable description. The Dirty, in typically current style, shake up a pile of sounds from yesteryear to forge their own disgruntled, primitive rock.

Brand new reissue of one of garage rock’n’roll’s best 45s ever. Boston’s Lyres issued this back in 1979 on Sounds Interesting, run by future Arf! Arf! label chief Erik Lindgren and Chip Lamey. The disc has always been a rare-to-find artefact in its original format, complete with the monochromatic paper picture cover, showing the band onstage when they opened for reunited Texas ’60s garage punks Kenny And The Kasuals.

For a gang of ladies who want to "rock'n'roll all night and party every day", there nonetheless beats a romantic heart at the centre of The Priscillas' day-glo world. For sure, all of the band's hallmarks are present and correct - riffs so crunching, hard-driven and downright filthy that even The Hives would break out in…er…hives, the sassy, switchblade smiles, Jackie O's make-up tips and the Russ Meyer-approved proportions. But this tale of super-powered true love is as deliciously soppy as it is enervating.

Finally a 45 by our fave garage beat band! On the great Dirty Water Label from London comes this great three-track EP including three of the best tracks off their second CD-only album "Beginners Muck". All this housed in a great cartoon cover. You'll love it! (Soundflat)

Track listing:

I'm Down With That
One of These Days
All I Really Want To Do is Cry

Nothing to do with oddball 50s movies this time - a no upload post today, completely knackered (that working late'll gertcha every time). Instead, we've just time to marvel at the wonder that is Los Peyotes...

Track listing:

Los Chicos – Living Legends
The Havox – Watch This!
Dr Explosion – Better Days
The Four Shames – Way Down South
Tony Truant – La fille du noctamule
The Hoodoo Gurus – Pickin' Pickin'
The Maggots – I Am What I Am
The Insomniacs – I Wanna Feel Something Now
The Playboys – En balade avec les Playboys
The Primevals – Screamin' Skull
Hans Frank – Whistling Past The Grave
Snax ft. Halloween Jack – Good Good Crack
The Psychotones – Hitsburg USA
The Slickee Boys – Headlock On My Heart
Slow Slushy Boys – I've Gotta Change My Life

Drop the best black music, Blues, R&B and Soul, a shot of country, a little more garage, and a pinch of punk into a cocktail shaker - not forgetting to add a little cold beer and presto! you got yourself Los Chicos, a wild powerful Rock'n'Roll party on stage. Los Chicos is a 6-man Rock 'n' roll machine based on a swinging rhythm section that would make the dead dance, 2 guitar players mad for Wilko Johnson and Steve Cropper, a plain mad sax player, and one of the best frontmen in Spain doing the singing.

Track listing:

Alive
Tropical Ritual
You Are My Sign
Don't Yell At The Dogs

Great band from Portugal with a stunning mix of rock'n'roll, garage and blues, all topped by a great singer &and loud loud guitars. Sounding a bit like Sweatmaster or Sewergrooves played by Muddy Waters! (Soundflat)

Track listing:

Wanna Hold You
Go

Single of the Week: Look at the picture cover. That's my face after extensively smashing my face against the wall as this track took over brain and bent it in half. Driving, forceful, genuine punk rock with two savage basses tearing at the leash like two hell hounds. The orderly guitar stabs go off like a well timed battery of three inch guns and singer Nathan cooks the whole thing in a big steam driven oven with the heat setting set to "hate". Fuck I love this.

Malmö may not make you think of snotty fuzz – as Sweden is generally more famous for the likes of Ace of Base – but if you ask The Branded who the hell Ace of Base are, they just shrug, snigger and whack you round the head with a big simple fist. This is my kinda groop. The Branded don't ever eat. They just listen to records by The Yardbirds, Count Five and The Sonics. They don't do anything else. This has left them gaunt and slightly cabbaged. Thankfully, this state of ill repair has produced a back pocket full of great singles that strut like a damaged peacock.

An Australian rock’n’roll band now based in London, this four-piece feeds off past and present influences including the Sonics, The Nervous Eaters, The Hives, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Saints and Kings of Leon to produce a unique mix of ’50s rock’n’roll and ’60s garage that’s been perfectly updated for today, with an appeal that reaches out to contemporary audiences of all kinds.

Garage Punk Latino kings Hollywood Sinners’ second LP is the latest
release from Dirty Water. Recorded at Circo Perrotti Vintage Recording
Studio in Gijon, Mike Mariconda and Dr. Explosion have somehow captured
the essence of the Sinners’ manic live performances on tape (none of
that digital shit for Hollywood Sinners).

Comes in sizes:

Men – Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large
Women's – Small, Medium, Large

Garage
Punk Latino kings Hollywood Sinners’ second LP is the latest release
from Dirty Water. Recorded at Circo Perrotti Vintage Recording Studio
in Gijon, Mike Mariconda and Dr. Explosion have somehow captured the
essence of the Sinners’ manic live performances on tape (none of that
digital shit for Hollywood Sinners).

First full-length album from the Anglo-Swedish R&B/Garage combo. 11 killer original tracks. Available from May.

"Download, spread the word, avoid at your own peril. Stop whatever you
are doing. Your life is about to change. Boston’s garage super group
Muck and the Mires are setting the Universe on fire." Kim Fowley
(producer)

NME said:

Teenage Garage Punks from Bury-St-Edmonds. Sound like a cross between '77 Punk and Billy Childish. This is their first vinyl release in advance of a heavy summer touring schedule including spots on the bill at the Primitive festival in Rotterdam and the Dracula festival in Valencia. They are not to be missed!

Track listing:

A-side:

Don't Try To Tell Me

B-Side:

Why Have You Changed?

Yes, Los Peyotes are back! Back to Dirty Water for the second single "BDAAA!!!"....back to Europe for another tour this summer, and back to Dirty Water for a full length LP/CD. Another killer track seemingly from 1965, backed with a great cover of an original South American Garage Punk song by Los Saicos.

Track Listing:

A-side:

BDAAA!!

B-side:

El Entierro de los Gatos

Psychedelic-garage, surf-guitar, Tex Mex, and rhythm’n’blues
South Americans, in the tradition of their compatriots Los Saicos, seem to
have crossed time and space from the Buenos Aires of 1965.

Track listing:

A-side

1. El Corredor Quemado

2. Action

3. El Humo Te Hace Mal

4. Vampiro

5. Scream

6. La Malvada Creacion del Dr Ilusion

7. El Entierro de los Gatos

B-side:

1. Psicosis V

2. Back Come To Me