This playlist contains nothing but super-catchy cuts from some of the best garage-y rock & roll bands of yesterday and today. Bop your head as you put on your sunglasses and head for the garage. (Cover: The Shadracks / Photo: “Danger” Bill Henderson/Sub P

Infectious Garage Rock

Pitchfork Selects

Pitchfork Selects - Part 1

The tracks Pitchfork has on repeat. <a href="https://listen.pitchfork.com/spotify_playlist" rel="nofollow">Listen to the Pitchfork Review podcast to hear more about the latest releases.</a>

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Chic Bistro Music for Maximum Good Vibes

Post-Punk - Dance Punk

emails i can't send

Nonsense

What Would You Like Me to Do?

Stunning Luxury

Tailpipe

Vacation From Thought

Good Bad Not Evil

Make It

What Are the Odds

Money on the Table

Haunted

Haunted Man

MAGICIAN

NO THANK YOU

Gorilla

Layla

Haffmilch Holiday

skunk boy.

The Clown

Boy's a liar Pt. 2

Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Echolalia

Night Light

Gonna Go

Paradise Crick

River Turns Woodley (for Frogman)

Dogsbody

Amaranth

Yoga

Conveniency

Hollywood Baby

Ass Kickin'

The King

I DM U

2003

It's Crazy

It's Crazy (Single Version)

Handshakes

Something In My Eye

Robed in Rareness

Binoculars (feat. Royce The Choice)

https://chemicalx.ffm.to/puresmilesnakevenom

Song Credits - 
Performed by Eartheater
Produced by Eartheater and Sega Bodega
Mixed by Gabriel Schuman
Mastered by Joe LaPorta

Pure Smile Snake Venom

Needs

Zach Bryan

Jake's Piano - Long Island

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/love2jdtwitch

This is a mix that long ago lived on the internet, then ended up properly mastered as one of the cassettes in our 15th anniversary box set. We're releasing it again now to bring attention to our friend, Keith McIvor aka JD Twitch, who's been diagnosed with a brain tumor. The liner notes for the cassette, below, lay out how formative our experiences of Optimo (Espacio) were as we built our thing. Keith played the very first Mister Saturday Night, and we went on to develop a long friendship with both him and Jonnie. We are forever grateful to them and hope you will support Keith and his family now as they deal with one of the most difficult moments of life. Love live Keith McIvor. Long live Optimo. 

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/love2jdtwitch


*Original Liner Notes*

Optimo were huge inspirations when Justin and I threw our first Mister Saturday Night parties in 2009. Justin had seen them play at the Motherfucker party at Limelight sometime in 2004, while I spent time at the weekly Sunday night parties that JD Twitch (Keith McIvor) and Jonnie Wilkes’ threw in Glasgow during my college days. We were both taken by Keith and Jonnie’s ability to incorporate just about any music into their sets while still pleasing everyone in the room, record diggers and punters alike.

This particular set is from the summer of 2010, a party we hosted in a Bushwick back alley, and it encapsulates Optimo's knack for party-rocking in the most unconventional way. Classic house gives way to afrobeat, builds up into a high energy Italo track that drips to a halt, before revving into a sequence that includes an off-kilter Comeme record, “Pump Up The Jam,” ‘80s electro, lo-fi techno and Jesse Jackson’s “I Am Somebody” speech, before Liquid Liquid's Sal Principato grabs the mic and sings “Optimo,” the track for which Keith and Jonnie named their project. To hear is to believe.

— Eamon Harkin

MSN Tape 1510 - Optimo

Part 1. A Fundraiser for JD Twitch / Optimo, 2010 in NYC (featuring Sal P from Liquid Liquid)

Entertainment!

Damaged Goods

Remain in Light

Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)

Catch It

New Age is the title track and second single taken from Vintage Crop's upcoming debut LP, "New Age". The LP will be out April 6th on Anti Fade Records and Weather Vane Records.

Vintage Crop is four early-twenties men from Geelong, a group of people who spent their adolescence playing sport, listening to triple J and shunning the local scene. Now they’ve smartened up, changed the channel and stopped exercising. The band released their first tape in 2017 and have returned less than a year later with their first full-length album.
New Age is an album that favours simplicity and delivers a punch to the jowls of the local scene. It shines a harsher and darker light on the Geelong four-piece, steering away from the garage leanings of the band’s 2017 tape, TV Organs, towards a grittier sound.
Recorded by Billy Gardner (Ausmuteants, The Living Eyes), New Age is 12 tracks of fun-poking; complete with sarcasm, alien misadventures and tales of missing garden gnomes. Tracked in one 8 hour session in Geelong, live to tape, the band channel the no-frills song writing of Eddy Current Suppression Ring and pair it with the urgency and biting wit of Uranium Club.
Vintage Crop will be launching the album’s first single, Gerald Part 2, on March 16th at The Post Office Hotel with Gonzo & The Blinds before an interstate album tour in May.

“New Age” is out April 6th on Anti Fade records and Weather Vane records.

ANT - 041 // WVR - 010

What Would You Like Me to Do?

MEAT WAVE