Brooklyn’s Graveyard Kids are back with a new single and keeping the garage rock theme going of the day. While not as visceral as our earlier Oil Boom post, this track Jor G is equally good – just over two minutes of jerky, insistent garage pop that descends into musical chaos about half-way through before recovering only to collapse in on itself again at the end. Download … Continue reading New Graveyard Kids Single
We first featured the lo-fi, bluesy rock of The Graveyard Kids as part of a post about ten Bandcamp treasures. They have now made a seven track album titled My Only Company available for free download – apparently it started out as a collection of acoustic, lo-fi garage recordings and is now something altogether more powerful and instinctive. Check out lead track Staircase Blues below … Continue reading MM Shorts 213: Graveyard Kids
Trawling Bandcamp can from time to time reveal the most extraordinary treasures – more often than not they are free or a nominal ‘pay what you want deal’ and so here are ten of the bands that have been tickling the Mackerel’s fancy recently. First up is uncompromising garage-punk noiseniks The Bats Pajamas who have featured on MM before and have a new EP called … Continue reading Ten Bandcamp Treasures
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