Tag: Dr. Dog

Viagra Boys don’t care what you think… there’s plenty of room for a saxophone and John Prine covers in the backseat of a 21st century punk band.

Part of what will be known as the Great Australian Psychedelic Expansion, Bananagun is more incense and lava lamps than strobes and smoke machines.

You might expect rowdy blues, or thrash-worthy hardcore from the name, but this is some very creative indie rock, using your standard ingredients yet somehow wringing out a distinctive texture and taste.

Sparkling gems, with great ‘70s AM radio hooks and harmonies and incredibly detailed production.

Nicely done collection of funky pop, or poppy funk.

It was a quiet night... I believe an unearthly materializing of liquid water from thin air had people on edge. Elsewhere, the phenomenon is so common it has its own word -- "rain" -- but here in the Grand Valley, it's so rare as to trigger suspicions of alien interference, chemtrails, or bitcoin market manipulation. Sometimes all three.

Some very young Canadians show plenty of promos with this pleasantly bratty set of indie guitar rock.

The band returns with more of their particular brand of folksy psychedelia. Lots of great hooks and harmonies, as usual.

They're all over the place, but that's what I like about Post Animal. "Dirtpicker" owes much to the Jesus Lizard, especially in its title.

Naked Giants remind us that kicking things off with some herky-jerky funk punk beat is never a losing proposition.