How do I do this?

Hello there and welcome to my blogosphere deflowering. Posting everyday is a pipe dream (I'm a father of two so whaddya want from me?). I do hope to get stuff up here a couple times a week though. For my premier post I thought I'd start things off with something old and something new.

For the old I'm kinda cheating; though this slab of seminal garage punk originally appeared in 1966 the good folks at Sundazed Records reissued it back in 2004. The Sonics were a blast of white hot energy out of Tacoma, Washington that took the R&B/rock fusion of local favorites like The Wailers and The Kingsmen to unimagined extremes for the time. Lead singer Gerry Roslie wails like a cranked out white Little Richard. Still some of the raunchiest rock ever recorded.

Check out a couple of tracks:

Bama Lama Bama Loo
Psycho

The new: I'm going with the lovely debut by local San Francisco band The Botticellis pressed into my grubby mits by my good friends at Antenna Farm Records. Old Home Movies is packed with beautifully crafted pop filled with Big Star type hooks backed with vintage keyboard washes under soulful croony vocals. It's coming out May 13th but here's a preview, the title track plus one of my favorites:

Old Home Movies
The Reviewer

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