garage rock

Jim Jones & Jack Oblivian here, Kid Congo playing w/ Hunx

Kid Congo Powers @ Spider House (BV-SXSW 2010) (more by Tim Griffin) The next free Vice Garage show at Knitting Factory, Wednesday, July 28th, will feature the ex-Cramp/Bad Seed garage rocker pictured above, with support from the supercampy Hunx & His Punx…

another Oblivians show & updated Jack Yarber solo dates

The Oblivians, whose upcoming reunion and solo shows we outlined previously, have added another date for the NYC area. In addition to the free Scion Garage show at Knitting Factory on July 1st (RSVP is now closed), they’ll be playing a July 2nd gig at The Irish in Kearny, NJ (a mile away from the Harrison PATH station)…

The Oblivians are reuniting again (for a free NYC show!)

The Oblivians will be playing the next free Scion Garage show at Knitting Factory on Thursday, July 1st. The garage rock band has reunited sporadically since breaking up in 1998 – Vice writes that this show marks their “return to NYC for the first time in 13 years…

Cheap Time & Bad Sports playing free show & other dates

DOWNLOAD: Cheap Time – Woodland Drive (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Bad Sports -On Video (MP3) The last Scion Garage show at Knitting Factory brought Pierced Arrows and Black Lips to the venue on April 29th…

The Gories playing more reunion shows (3 in the NYC-area)

The Gories, Amsterdam May 1992 Photo by Willem KolvoortThe emergence of The Gories heralded a new Golden Age of Detroit rock beginning in the late ’80s; a renaissance of noise and rustbelt rock which lasts through to today…

Jack Oblivian & Manneqin Men playing free Brooklyn show

Jack Oblivian @ the Clubhouse in Tempe, AZ – Nov 5, 2009 (grtaylor2) Neither Jack Oblivian or Mannequin Men have tours announced at the moment, but both will be in Brooklyn on January 14th to play an intimate free show…

Roky Erikson played Scion Garage Fest, adds more NY shows

Roky Erikson @ Scion Garage Fest in Portland (vej)”The Scion Garage Fest was pretty amazing, and I managed to catch the complete sets from ten bands…

Roky Erickson playing Garage Fest, New Year's @ Maxwell's

Spend New Years Eve with Roky Erickson in Hoboken! OK, I admit that seems like an odd concept. Neverthelees, that’s where he’ll be playing on December 31st…

The Mummies & the Back CCs @ Southpaw, Brooklyn - pics

“Rarely has a band been so well matched to a venue as it was Wednesday night when The Mummies took over Southpaw. The club’s considerable investment in rock ‘n’ roll–walls papered in album jackets, vintage tuck-and-roll sparkle naugahyde Plush and Kustom amplifiers behind the bar, a basement bunker bar that once housed a crackhead who occasionally raised enough green to enjoy the company of a lady friend at the most inopportune times–was quickly trumped by the trash talking, trash rocking Mummies who had the audience flinging plastic cups of beer at them before stagehands even got the curtain fully open…
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