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So Segall ropes in a huge crew of ringers on his latest collection, Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), Mikal Cronin, Emmett Kelley (The Cairo Gang), ...

Night Beats are back, steadily threading the needle of psych and garage with a strand of soul that's just fine enough to get lost in th...

Honey Radar - Instant Replay Finger 7" So this one is one of those reviews that feels like an exercise in frustration. First, the mu...

Laddio Bolocko - Live and Unreleased 1997-2000 No Quarter have painstakingly sought to elevate Laddio Bolocko's legacy with this colle...

Masaki Batoh's post Ghost exhibits haven't always hit on the same hallowed ground that the band prowled in its heyday. But with two...

Montreal's Sheer Agony wrap their power pop swagger in the geek pop charms of forefathers the DBs and The Soft Boys, jamming as many ji...

Three records in, Quilt are still busing down the country highways and finding ways to capture the sunset in musical interludes. Plaza is ...

Michael Morley takes the easily digestible disco frivolities of Saturday Night Fever and delves a few levels darker into the heart of the ...

I've always had a soft spot for Bleached. Their run of singles leading up to Ride Your Heart were doused in a 90's charm that was...

Chris Gunn shared time in two undeniably great, though never celebrated enough bands, The Hunches and Hospitals. His new endeavor, Lavender...

Tina & The Total Babes - She's So Tuff Sometimes you have to kick your own ass for missing out on something in its original time. ...

Said it before and I'll say it again, January always acts as a cleanup of what was so sorely forgotten in the crush of year-end nonsens...

Another scoop up from the detritus of last year. New York's Lame Drivers are cracking into the power pop canon with the fortitude of se...

Sometimes context is everything. In most contexts the mouth harp is a bygone piece of a quainter time, an ancient ritual or simply a toy th...

Coming late to F ingers release, but thoroughly enjoying it, makes one think I'd be more on the ball with tangential offshoots as well ...

Uther Pendragon - San Francisco Earthquake No matter how many years separate the 60's from the present, it seems that the mines run de...

Long an RSTB favorite, Mammatus returns with an album that showcases their ability to swerve from tranquil space-outs to crushing guitar he...

Portland's Woolen Men have already stung 2015 with a great LP released on Woodsist, but it seems they had more to give. Self-released a...

____________________________ Best Albums of 2015 ____________________________ Its been a long year at RSTB and though the pace may hav...