Outronaut bandleader and guitarist Steve Gerlach probably reaches more ears as a sideman than he does with his own outfit. For nearly a decade he’s played in Sons of the Silent Age, Matt Walker and Chris Connelly’s nine-member David Bowie tribute group; that gig got Gerlach work on Connelly’s solo material. In a 2021 interview […]
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Los Bitchos are cumbia’s dada rock stars
Los Bitchos are an LSD-laced sugar cube melting in your mouth. The London-based four-piece make tripped-out 70s-inspired cumbia that sounds like it belongs in the 1966 Czech film Daisies—Věra Chytilová’s new-wave masterpiece, banned in part for a scene where two teenage girls have a food fight. “Wasting food,” the authorities said, which was really a […]
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Habibi’s gauzy surf rock will have you dreaming of summer
Update: To help slow the spread of COVID-19, this show has been postponed until further notice. Ticket holders can contact the point of purchase for refund or exchange information. New York-based rock band Habibi can make any show, even one in the last weeks of winter, feel like a humid summer day spent lounging around […]
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Man or Astro-Man? go surfing in outer space
There’s a difference between surf and instrumental rock—not every rock ’n’ roll tune without a vocal is surf. The likes of Duane Eddy, Link Wray, and even Booker T. & the MGs have all been mistaken for surf artists, but none of them have had that “wet” reverb sound favored by west-coast guitarists such as […]
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Sixties garage rockers the Royal Flairs are best remembered for the macabre single ‘Suicide’
The Royal Flairs got started in Council Bluffs, Iowa, moved to Chicago in 1965, and split up after their front man was shot protecting a go-go dancer.
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Ruido Fest announces its 2017 lineup
This year’s Ruido Fest spans genres and generations, with Intocable, Bomba Estéreo, Molotov, Julieta Venegas, Titán, El Guincho, Ruido Rosa, and many more.
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The dark twang of Seattle’s La Luz
The quartet nicely shuffle surf music, girl-group harmonies, and garage rock on their recent debut album, It’s Alive.