Jacks - Baby 7'' ep (Fuzz Overdose 2008)

From Volos Greece, four great shaky garage girl-vocal little diamonds for your pleasure!

The Hipstairs - Boogacha Boogaloo ( Belle Vue 2007 )

Three neo-mod ultra organ groovers from Greece! Cool stuff!

Suicide - S/T ( Red Star 1977 )

Years ahead of its time 1977 debut from these art electro punks from N.Y.

FUCKIN GREAT NEWS...THE THANES LIVE IN GREECE

Hopefuly the Thanes will play their 1st ever shows in Greece during the weekend of March 11th & 12th in Athens and Larissa!!!

Dimentia 13 - S/T ( Midnight 1985 )

Neo-Psychedelic Classic from the "mysterious" Dementia 13 in 1985!

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Here are excerpts from main feature article in Freakbeat #6 by Richard Allen.
Way back in the incense-fogged, swirling yesterdays of 1985 Dimentia 13 unveiled their first album, which was released on the ever alternative Midnight records label of New York, USA. The music, a fusion of Garage, Acid Rock and lonesome acoustic folk (with a touch of the psychotically surreal), appealed to lysergic fans all and sundry. Dimentia 13's debut record still sounds as fresh today as the day it was born . . . [and has] found its day-glo niche in the halls of psychedelia. However the identity of the band remained a complete mystery, the only clue being the name of the producer, Brad Warner and the engineer Scot Goodman. Midnight were certainly not giving the game away and in 1987, two years later, a second LP appeared in an amazing mirror sleeve.

The Hydes - Out Tonite ( Corduroy 1998 )

Another fab 7'' this time in Corduroy Records from one of the greatest lost Garage rock n roll bands from Salonica, Greece! Dig this hidden treasure!

The Urges - ( Around & ) Around Again ( 2005 )

Fab first single from the incredible Irish garage punkers!

Cosmic Teds - I'll Be Down There/Truth Is Out ( Studio II 1993 )

Second and last recording from one of the most explosive ultra dirty Rock n Roll Greek Bands of the early 90s. Sadly underrated in their prime but with lovin memories from those who saw them live on stage!

Question Mark & The Mysterians - 96 Tears ( Cameo-Parkway 1966 )

Possibly the greatest LP of all time from the man who invented Garage Punk! 1966 was the year zero! Cool Stuff!!!

va Cicadas - An Electric Guide To The Greek Underground ( Pegasus 1987 )

Legendary compilation from a legendary label in terms of Greek underground scene back in 1987! Dig it!

Belle Vue Press Vol. XI + Barbara Farmers Debut (7" or CD)

Fresh issue from Modstastic Greek Zine Belle Vue Press with a fantastic 7" (4 tracks) or alternatively a CD (8 tracks) with Barbara Farmers! Place your orders now!

The Thanes - Dozen Thoughts Buzzing ( Screaming Apple 1994 )

Happy new year folks with another killer 7" from the mighty Thanes back in 1994!!!

Invisible Surfers Live

Blue Orchids - The Greatsest Hit (Money Mountain) ( Rough Trade 1982 )

Post-Punk psychedelic pop classic from Manchester in 1982

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his Manchester quartet, which included two early members of the Fall — guitarist/singer Martin Bramah and keyboardist Una Baines — used organ as its main instrument, but at times on The Greatest Hit it sounds as if Baines is playing a different song from the rest of the band. There are many overlapping layers in the deceptively simple sound; the long organ washes are interrupted by guitars lurching to the fore. Bass and drums keep the steady beat, but the others don't necessarily fall in line behind them. Vocals are half-sung, half-spoken and full of poetic pretense, but it's the mesmerizing music that captures the listener in bright swirling folds. While The Greatest Hit can be simply tagged as neo-psychedelia, that doesn't cover the full scope of this fascinating band's music.

(TrouserPress)

2 Cycles In The Garage Radio Show

Pere Ubu - Dub Housing ( Chrysalis 1979 )

Second LP by Pere Ubu in 1979...!

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The spectacular Dub Housing accentuates the more amorphous qualities of the band's sound, drawing heavily on synthesizer player Allen Ravenstine's utterly original soundscaping ability. Songs like "Codex," "Caligari's Mirror" and the ominous title track conjure up images straight out of art-house psychological horror films like Carnival of Souls. Simply one of the most important post-punk recordings

(Trouser Press)

Roky Erickson In Athens...

Frantics Live...

Explosion...

Teardrops & Hipstairs Live...

The Masonics - In A Man's Heart ( Royal 1995 )

First Seven inch single From the mighty Brit Garage Rockers!

Os Haxixins Live In Greece

Dwarves - Blood Guts And Pussy ( Sub Pop 1990 ) Re-Issue

Third LP from the Chicago extreme Garage Scum Punkers!

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...Proponents of an extremist wing of the less-is-more school of thought, the Dwarves have wreaked much underground havoc with highly confrontational (often blood- soaked) live sets that are over in ten minutes and "longplayers" of acute political incorrectness that don't last even twice that. If there weren't so much action here — imagine watching The Evil Deadon fast- forward — these San Francisco-via-Chicago neo-punks might be just another bunch of exhibitionists.

(TrouserPress)

Mickey Hampshire & Masonics - Mumbo Jumbo ep ( Little Teddy 1995 )

Hello we are back in action. Good start then with the killer four tracker ep from the Masonics back in 1995! High quality no frills straight garage rock n roll injection!

We Are Back at the end of August-Stay Tuned!

Days Are Gone...

The Cramps - Gravest Hits ( I.R.S 1979 )

A new kind of psycho kick! One of the most thrilling E.Ps of all time? The debut of The Cramps back in 1979!

The Vertebrats - A Thousand Day Dream ( Reaction 2003 )

Remastered retrospective from the founders of the Champaign, IL scene. 80's garage pop at it's best!

In the early-80s, the patron saints of the Champaign, Illinois music scene were a four-piece band named The Vertebrats, whose brand of simple, urgent, garage-rock --influenced by 70s punk and the British Invasion rock of the 60s-- defined the budding music scene. The ‘Brats were raw, dynamic and unpretentious, raised on The Clash, Rockpile, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Ramones, and Neil Young, and empowered by their peers, like The Replacements, Husker Du, and Mission of Burma. Ironically, what makes the band sound so vital today is probably the same thing that kept the ‘Brats from getting a record deal in their prime. The Vertebrats music was too tuneful to make them “punk”, too rough around the edges to qualify them as “new wave”. Despite their rave reviews in the rock press of the day, shortsighted label executives didn’t know what to make of their approach.

(text from: parasol.com)

va !!!Here Ain't The Sonics!!! ( Popllama 1989 )

Fantastic tribute compilation to the greatest band of the solar system!!!

Galaxie 500 - On Fire ( Rough Trade 1989 )

Second offering from the Galaxies in 1989!

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On Fire acknowledges a past master of mopery with an unsanctimonious cover of George Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity." This second release shapes out the spaces between Dean Wareham's proto-strum and whine/wail, Naomi Yang's exceptionally melodic bass lines (the band's true emotional center) and Damon Krukowski's economical drumming. Kramer (producer of the band's entire output to date) throws in enough reverb and echo to nearly cover lyrics like "I stood in line and ate my Twinkie" beneath a fuzzy warm sonic blanket. Wareham's lead guitar lines are clearer and more confident here and, with nice touches like saxophone on "Decomposing Trees," the songs are immersion chambers of atmosphere.

(text from Trouzers Press)

Re-Up: Fleshtones - Roman Gods

The Gun Club - Fire Of Love ( Ruby 1981 )

I recently returned to this and it blew my mind once again like the first time!

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Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club. From his days as a peroxided, Debbie Harry-fixated Los Angeles teen-punk, through a lengthy era when he seemed convinced he could channel the spirit of Robert Johnson, to a more recent probe of the seedier side of continental balladry, Pierce — who died of a cerebral blood clot in Utah at the end of March 1996 — always presented a highly individual, albeit sometimes dazed'n'confused, vision of a soul in torment.

Being unseasoned, young, middle-class, white and barely able to play guitar didn't mean he had to be to the blues what the Cramps once were to rockabilly. For Pierce, the blues was a highly personal medium to broadcast/exorcise demons. On Gun Club's cathartic debut, Fire of Love, his unschooled, high-lonesome howl often evokes the hellhound-on-his-tail imagery he's trying to project. This is bona fide mutant blues, with Pierce using the musical structures and lyrical imagery for his own ends. Exciting, intense — even cathartic — and badly (if appropriately) recorded, with a dash of punk leavening, this also has homey and effective touches like bits of violin and slide guitar (by Ward Dotson and Jeffrey Lee). If the band isn't terribly successful when it tries to preserve the letter of the blues (as on a cover of Johnson's "Preaching the Blues"), transposing the genre's spirit to a snarled punk framework ("She Is Like Heroin to Me," the gripping "Fire Spirit") proves the Gun Club's purity of essence.

(text From :www.trouserpress.com)

Re-Up: The Knights Of Fuzz (e-book)

Greece Gone Garage Festival

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Dead Moon - Thirteen Of My Hook ( Music Maniac 1990 )

Classic underground garage Rock n Roll stuff from the legendary couple plus lunatic drummer Andrew! Its 1990 release on MM and includes some earlier tracks. Its fuckin original!!

Great Version (L.S.C-Have Love Will Travel)

Belle Vue Press Vol. X Out Now

New issue from modstatic greek fanzine is out now! It contains CD complilation!Check and order:

http://www.myspace.com/belle_vue