Sounds like members Watt (Minutemen, Mike Watt), George Hurly (Minutemen), and Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust) stretching their ’80s experience into ’60s roots.
With every album, Last Days of April have gotten less melodramatic Guitarist/vocalist Karl Larsson is looking toward the likes of Dinosaur Jr. more than ever.
Hipster classic metal bands are doing it: Play it loose and a little drunken, but Twisted Tower Dire have the deep-dish metal knowledge that slays trendiness.
The sweep of classic rock’s big-voiced mix of European folk traditions and U.S.-bred country and blues. U2, The Doors, Pearl Jam, and Live come to mind.
A DVD of clips from bands that dug cool stuff book-ended by ’62 -’68. They were usually fueled by the concurrent snot punk and power pop stuff swirling around.
Despite and because of the unusual engineering, the room noise and unsafe at any volume recording level, this is the most exciting garage punk in many moons.
They bash simply, with a bit of retro, and so they’re competing with hundreds of bands who’ve emulated anything about The Stooges over the last 37 years.
Recorded the same night as a Grave DVD, this is just as clear, well-produced, and packed full of crushing death metal. Live Grave, it’s the band’s first DVD.