Get Hip Records take bands with the ’60s punk/garage/folk-rock/psychedelic thing in various states of “authenticity” and put out their goddamn records.
Sounds like members Watt (Minutemen, Mike Watt), George Hurly (Minutemen), and Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust) stretching their ’80s experience into ’60s roots.
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.
Clarinet, glockenspiel, mellotron, Moog, saxophone, and theramin with the energy and tact to float notes, melodies, and jazz time-keeping, without hollering.
These are rock guys moving into rootsier music. The vocalist sounds a bunch like Big Audio Dynamite/Clash singer Mick Jones. Friendly and kinda wistful.
Similar to the Hickoids in irreverence to gloss and reverence to rockin’ the house, and dissimilar in that the rootage is less country and more a groove ride.