Rock Star Journalist

Over at Killer Diller‘s website, you can preview their forthcoming 7-inch from New York’s Organs. The vinyl’s entitled Get It Right, and is a four-song slab o’ wax sure to blow out your speakers.

The label’s saying the the release comes as a “rad record pack,” and if the details are to be believed, that is indeed the case. You’ve got the four-song record, which not only comes with a download card, but a frickin’ one-song flexi disc with a bonus track. That’s swankness right there, kids. It should be available later this month.

From Brooklyn comes my new favorite thing to read. It’s called Bananas Magazine, and even better, it’s free. Well, it was for me, but I sent them an e-mail and asked really nice for a copy so I could tell you folks about it. I imagine if you were to send them a couple bucks in the mail, they’d throw you a copy, as well.

And, really – you should. As the line across the top of the cover read, they cover garage, punk, surf, r ‘n’ b, and trash rock. There are interviews with little-known New York garage acts that are described so vividily that you’ll be smashing their names into Google within minutes of reading them, so eager will you be to hear them for yourselves. After reading the interview with the Othermen, and seeing them described as the sort of band that’s “destined to keep creating amazing music, burn out and never play again, or get in a plane crash and die,” I’m kicking myself for not just buying their record when I grabbed the Wild About Jenkem comp from Killer Diller last week.
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