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BEST COAST

Killer fucked up sounding reverby "60's girl group" style beach pop songs. That is the most retarded description of a band i have ever written! No wonder i stopped posting! Anyways,here are a few tracks 2 from the Black Iris digital 7" and 2 acoustic tracks from the "levis - live in the bathroom thing?"

THE MANTLES

I don't know much about these guys other than they are another awesome band from San Francisco. Fuzzy/Poppy/Psych not too far removed from the Fresh & Onlys and in saying that even slightly similar to The Chills or The Clean. Who cares. I hate the "sounds like" game.Have a listen for yourself. Buy it from MT.ST.MTN.

WHORES

Whores are a three piece shitty noisiey/ garage / punk rock band from Sydney Australia. This was recorded on a four track in their lounge room & was being released on tape sometime in the last 6 months. Last time i saw them play they tore it up in a 10 - 15 minute set as their guitarist was late to the gig and was tripping out of his mind on acid. Awesome.

THE GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS

Coming out of Sonic Youth-drenched Wellington, NZ in the early nineties,now living in Sydney Australia The Garbage & the Flowers were always going to be an anomaly. Denounced as the fifty-thousandth band to sound like the The Velvet Underground, and even as a Christian band in the local street press, the five-piece nevertheless built up a solid gang of devotees, who claimed their sound to be "unique, fractured, and psychedelic" and ideal to take acid with and get stoned to. This is their first single. Amazing!

NECESSARY EVILS

Interplanetary transmissions and the sound of blood lust - get ready for the extreme psychodelic and otherworldly sounds of the Necessary Evils. Their brand of sci-fi inspired fuzz rock stands alone. Founded in 1997 by Steve Pallow (formerly of The Beguiled) and James Arthur (formerly of Fireworks), and rounding out their line up with Kyle John Hall on drums and Jimmy Hole on bass, The Evils have carved a nasty path of destruction over the last few years. Their's is the darkest, sickest, meanest sound around - truly the product of a disturbed psyche. Steve Pallow's voice issues warnings and threats throughout their rock n' roll demolition derby while James Arthur wrangles sounds out of his beat up Electra guitar that range from the sound of metal on metal grinding to that made by a flying saucer. Jimmy and Kyle's rhythm gives one very fat bottom to this ugly beast. With a nod to 60's psychedelic music (see covers of The Seeds, Black Rose, White Light and ineptitude kings The Keggs). The Evils make a racket that's brutal, intrusive and uncompromising.(FROM THE IN THE RED WEBSITE)

A-FRAMES

A Frames is postpunk, noise rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1999. The trio consists of Erin Sullivan, Min Yee and Lars Finberg. The band called itself Bend Sinister before Finberg joined the band.A Frames cites the Cows, Joy Division and Scratch Acid among its influences.A Frames started its own label, Dragnet Records, in January 2000 in order to release music, although the band signed with Sub Pop Records for the release of Black Forest. The band members also play in other acts including The Intelligence, the Dipers and Climax Golden Twins.