As you already know, The Sonics are an American garage rock band from Tacoma, Washington, originating in the early 1960s. Among The Sonics’s contemporaries were The Kingsmen, The Wailers, The Dynamics, The Regents, and Paul Revere & The Raiders.
Their aggressive, hard-edged sound has been a major influence on punk, garage, and hard rock music worldwide !
And we are pleased to announce their come back in February 2018 !
14th July – Castle Face Records // John Dwyer is talking about Magnetix : « The couple that slays together, stays together : Looch Vibrato and Aggy Sonora, like the moniker of an infamous killing duo, the fucking butchest band from Bordeaux. Looch, with hands like bunches of bananas and songs like flaming arrows. The lovely and tough-as-hell Aggy, crushing the kit. Heavy weird attackers from our sister country. Sludge drips—murder the guitar, usurp the amp, fry the mic, howl like beasts, melt the crowd: Magnetix. We were lucky enough to grab them on one of their rare U.S. shows, recorded in a basement in San Francisco. Here it is in all its gory glory. Let’s go tripping… »
The Magnetix keep on preaching the good words and you will have the pleasure of seeing them play at Liverpool Psych Fest with Male Gaze and many others. Lucky you!
While most teenagers spend troubled years looking for their identities, Cullen and Emmett have always known who they were, swimming in the same musical pool since childhood thanks their dad. The two brothers (of Cleveland, Ohio) only 13 et 16 at the time, formed this unusual drums and organ duet known as Archie & The Bunkers, finding inspiration in what they’ve always loved: punk like the Stooges played and 60’s garage with rockab and blues sonorities!
As for Meatbodies they are a basically garage-punk band, formed in 2013 in Monrovia, California by Chad Ubovich ! They go straight into the sound wall of hard vintage and rock stoner, with Californian psychedelic hippie voices, all recorded at the bottom of a radioactive canyon. Concise songs, dripping guitars, echoing everywhere, a great thing in expansion and without concessions, which always gives desire to mount the sound.
And we are pleased to announce that they will play in EUROCKÉENNES 2017, on 6th and 8th July, see you guys !
Archie and The Bunkers are an American rock’n’roll duo formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2013. The group consists of brothers Emmett (drum/vocals) and Cullen O’Connor (Organ/vocal). The pair began recording music in their basement self-producing their first 2 EPs (Comrade X. 2013, and Trade Winds, 2014.) The band’s raw garage punk sound draws heavily from Cullen’s melding of divergent musical styles. Influences range from jazz organ greats like Jimmy Smith, and Richard “Groove” Holmes, to punk icons Dead Boys, The Stooges, The Screamers, and more.
On stage, the siblings attack their songs with an energy that whips the audience into a frenzy. The unique growl of Cullen’s whirring, overdriven organ and the driving beat of Emmett’s 4-piece drum kit, leave concert-goers in shock at the sonic assault levied by only two.
The concert is coming, so « Hey oh let’s go » !
We are waiting for you on June 22th in Paris, they’ll play with The Punkin’ Bros, see you !
Buy your pre – sales !
Oh Sees, who have dropped the “Thee” from their name, will release new album Orc on August 25 via John Dwyer’s Castle Face label. That’s the cover art above. 2017 actually marks the 20th anniversary of Dwyer’s ever-evolving musical project (which began as OCS) and this will be the 19th album! You can listen to manic but harmonious opening cut “The Static God” below.
With their raw and entertaining music Thee Oh Sees will be in France until June 14th, and they ‘ll play in Bordeaux on Sunday, June 10th : See you guys !