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New album: Mister Trece And The Werewolves || Horror Movies Made Me Do It

Your soundtrack to Halloween 2024

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With Halloween approaching, a lot of new music about scary creatures and terrifying events is being released. One of the most fun albums is Horror Movies Made Me Do It, by Tulsa, Oklahoma-based artist Mister Trece, who divides his time between creating disturbing paintings and recording music influenced by his art and his hobbies. In this case, the inspiration came from horror movies from the 50s to the 70s (hence the title), resulting in eight original instrumentals in which rockabilly meets surf rock, with hints of jazz, synthwave and soundscapes. Seductive melodies well executed, an awesome soundtrack for the upcoming event.

Horror Movies Made Me Do It is out digitally via Midnight Marauder Records.

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New album: The Surfrajettes || Easy as Pie

Delicious sweet treats, including a cover of 'Spice Up Your Life'

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Nicole Damoff (guitar), Shermy Freeman (guitar), Sarah Butler (bass) and Annie Lillis (drums) of The Surfrajettes continue the party they started in an old roller rink – captured on 2022’s Roller Fink LP – in a pastel-colored diner. Under the apt title Easy as Pie, the Toronto quartet serves up twelve new instrumental surf tunes that are alternately sweet and fresh. Some of them are surprising covers – Hot Doggin (The Astronauts), Clam Chowder (The Sadies), Spice Up Your Life (Spice Girls), Instant Coffee (The Jokers) and Lee Hazelwood’s Sugar Town (Nancy Sinatra) – for which they follow the recipes of others but give them their own twist, fitting seamlessly between the delicious original treats. So much fun that it’s tempting to go for another round.




Easy as Pie, produced by Colin Cripps, is out now digitally, on CD and vinyl LP, through Hi-Tide Recordings.

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New single: Ichi-Bons || Snake Eyes / Watusi Zombie

First Go-Time 7" fills the dance floor like crazy

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Canadian rock ‘n’ roll trio Ichi-Bons return with two exciting instrumentals, which make up the first 45 of new label Go-Time Recordings. A-side Snake Eyes is an original tune written by the band’s frontman Mamoru “Mamo Banzai” Anzai, flipside Watusi Zombie is a cover of Jan Davis’ 1964 single. Both blend melodic surf rock with frantic rockabilly, ideal for dancing, jumping and shouting as if no one is watching.

Snake Eyes b/w Watusi Zombie is out digitally and on vinyl 7″ through Hi-Tide Recordings’ Go-Time label.

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New EP: Draculina / The Fathoms || Our Kingdoms / Sinhella / Hard To Fathom / Funny Farm

Cool split 7" lets instrumentals do the talking

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Now this is a treat. Rock ‘n’ roll label MuSick Recordings has released a split 7″ that fans of instrumental surf music definitely should check out. The A-side is filled by Saint Petersburg’s exotica-tinged goth project Draculina, with remasters of the mysterious and funky songs Our Kingdoms and Sinhella, originally found on last year’s self-titled EP. The flipside celebrates the return of Boston surf rockers The Fathoms, who pit guitars against a saxophone in the hip-shaking tunes Hard To Fathom and Funny Farm, their first new recordings in 17 years—as good as their best work.


This split EP is out now digitally and on transparant blue with pink splatter 7″ vinyl through MuSick Recordings, with cool cover art by Ruttu (Draculina side) and Rockin’ Eugene (Fathoms side). The Draculina tracks feature Polina Draculina (bass) and Larry Mullins (drums, keys, percussion), with Evan Foster (guitar) on Our Kingdoms and Chris Barfield (guitar) on Sinhella. The Fathoms feature Frankie Blandino (lead guitar), John Sciascia (bass) and Stan Kozlowski (drums), with Rob Amaral (guitar) and Sax Gordon (saxophone).

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New single: The Greasy Gills || Corn Cob Racer / Meat Swamp

Two twangy, reverb-drenched instrumentals to play loud

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The Greasy Gills, the Oakland-based rock ‘n’ roll trio featuring Jordan Steer (guitar), Sam Benedetti (bass) and Gracie Malley (drums), have a new 45 out that’s too nice not to share. Both Corn Cob Racer and its flipside Meat Swamp are surfy rockabilly instrumentals with earworm riffs. Reverb-drenched and full of twang (high octwang, as they call it, and as it should be), but also gripping and irrepressible. If you want to dance like crazy, just put this one on your turntable.


Corn Cob Racer b/w Meat Swamp is out now digitally and on 7″ vinyl through MuSick Recordings / No-Count Records.

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New EP: Beverly Bomber || The Lungs

Sunny tunes that are loose and lean

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Palm Springs trio Beverly Bomber’s debut EP The Lungs kicks off strongly with Twenty-Nine, a song that sounds like a blend of garage pop and indie rock through a late ’70s pop punk filter. It’s an early highlight on what turns out to be 21 minutes of sunny tunes that are loose and lean, or as the band puts it themselves: “Coachella Valley Freak Pop.” RIYL: Surfer Blood, Wavves.

EP out now on Witch Tree Records.


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New album: Cowabunghouls || Guac, Don​’​t Run

Cool “Rest Of” Compilation

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Not too long ago, we wrote about 3-song single The End of the World, but St. Louis, Missouri-based horror surf trio Cowabunghouls have been recording more cool music lately, which they now bring together on this 19-track compilation Guac, Don​’ ​t Run. These are energetic instrumentals, in which surf rock meets spaghetti western music, with original melodies and trashy reverb. Whether it concerns their own tunes or a cover like Do You Wanna Dance?, it is all equally contagious.




Guac, Don​’​t Run is out digitally. Add to wantlist: Bandcamp

New EP: The Boss Martians || Venus & The Western Sky

The Foster Brothers are back with a bang

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After a long hiatus, Seattle-based surf rockers The Boss Martians are back with a bang. Brothers Evan Foster (guitar) and Erik Foster (Fender Bass VI), joined by Bryan Manzo (sax) and Nick Schultz (drums), have released their cinematic Venus & The Western Sky EP featuring six electrifying instrumentals. Years of bottled energy and inspiration find their way into original themes and inspired playing where guitars, drums and sax push each other to great heights, truly extraordinary.


Venus & The Western Sky, written & produced by The Foster Brothers, is out now digitally, on CD and turquoise blue 12″ vinyl, through MuSick Recordings & No-Count Records. Cover art by Scott Sugiuchi.

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New single: Cowabunghouls || The End of the World

Trashy reverb rarely sounded so appealing

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It’s only been two months since Cowabunghouls released their album Ghoul Bus, but already the St. Louis, Missouri-based horror surf trio is back with new three-song single The End of the World. You know exactly what to expect from a band with ‘Crank The Reverb’ merch, yet the instrumentals here are quite divers and original. Opening tune Miles County Clown Costume is a catchy floor filler (handclaps!), the guitar melody of the title track makes the theme a lot more bearable (despite the ominous voices in the background), and San Gringo Peligroso has a cinematic and moody spaghetti western sound (a modern classic).

The End of the World, written by Brandon Larson, is out now digitally.

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New album: The Del Roswells || Operation Roswell

Surfing the airwaves like it's 1956

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British surf rock vehicle The Del Roswells has been traveling through space for a few years, leaving a trail of EPs behind. Under the codename Operation Roswell, they have now dropped their first full-length album, featuring twelve almost entirely instrumental songs (some screams and soundscapes can be heard), which serve as a “soundtrack to the intergalactic sci-surf alien invasion.” Many of the tunes were available before, which almost makes it feel like a greatest hits collection, but either way it’s nice to fly with these four nimble-fingered musicians for a little longer, although I am not sure we are safe with them.



Operation Roswell is out now digitally. Add to wantlist: Bandcamp

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