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The Strange Boys Sign to Rough Trade, Tour With Julian Casablancas, Prep New Album for 2010

A band name like “The Strange Boys” could allude to all sorts of things. Is their music particularly strange? Are the band members themselves strange fellas? Are they all pre-pubescent gents just trying to strike out against their please-be-normal parents? Turns out, none of these are true. In fact, maybe the strangest thing about them is that you haven’t gotten to know them yet. The band’s pours garage-rock grime over catchy pop tunes like pros. Remedy that right here....  read more

The King Khan & BBQ Show: Invisible Girl

More skuzzy garage rock from increasingly visible pair Before he donned his gold lamé hot pants and played wild shows like the unholy offspring of Little Richard and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, King Khan made a pair of loose, lewd, lo-fi albums with fellow Montreal ex-pat and former bandmate BBQ—a.k.a. Mark Sultan. Three years after their lip-smacking What’s for Dinner?, the duo re-teams for another set of R&B-inflected, ’60s-influenced garage rock with its juvenile-delinquent charms and dirty minds intact....  read more

Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong

How to be a Vivian Girl in four simple steps...  read more

Vivian Girls Announce Release Date For New Album

Those Vivian Girls sure have stayed busy since we last checked up on them. Last October, the gals were snatched up by fantastic garage-rock imprint In the Red, who released their self-titled debut after its original issue was gobbled up by fans (copies were bought on eBay for $100). ...  read more

Getting to Know... The Strange Boys

Like it or not, The Strange Boys are probably both younger and more accomplished than you. Since the band's humble beginnings as a duo in 2003...  read more

The Strange Boys to release debut LP on In the Red

Even if it often seems like every damn garage in Austin is full of Marshall half stacks and a hand-me-down drum kit, few of those car-parks produce the sounds of genuine garage pop. Real, rhythm'd-and-blues'd, countrified, jangle-your-face-off, swagger-like-it's-1965, Nuggets-box-set stuff....  read more

Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls

Washed in swathes of reverb and twee-twinged...  read more