Artists starting with T

What Is The Meaning of What

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Turing Machine, “What Is The Meaning of What” (Temporary Residence, 2012)
When last heard from, several years ago, these guys were playing a kind of updated 70’s jazz-rock fusion, delivered with hardcore’s force/velocity crux and Stooges-esque dynamic heaviness. Now they’re back, similar, minus the drummer (who died) but plus a hard electro edge that makes ‘em sound like apocalyptic 21st-century surf music. Prodigy + Mahavishnu + Agent Orange = total fucking exhilaration.
Try 1, 2, 7
7/12/12

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Sub-urban Insult Rock

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Tutu & the Pirates, “Sub-urban Insult Rock” (Factory 25, 2010; original recordings 1977-79)
Very early Chicago punk band, and this is good, though not as mind-blowing as I’d hoped – less proto-Stooges explosive than wacky ‘70s rock/Zappa dudes reading “punk” as a license for studied outrageousness. Still, the best of this is punchy, rousing, and as likably obnoxious as the rubber vomit you could get back then too.
Try A/3, A/4, A/8, B/1, B/4, B/5]7/29/13

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Sunken”(Autumn Tone, 2013

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Twin Peaks, “Sunken”(Autumn Tone, 2013)
Garage-punk with a nice psych/jangle emphasis and open-ended song structures that make room for exciting sun-through-the-trees-feeling sound-bursts.
Try 1, 8
7/15/14

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Fast Metabolism

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Tyvek, “Fast Metabolism” (What’s Your Rupture?, 2007; original recordings 2005-7)
Early singles and such from these guys that make me finally get why they’re seen as a big deal. Not merely “garage,” this is punk rock, as it gets rediscovered over and again, in the mid-‘60s, the late ‘70s, and now today. Classic-sounding song structures powered by guitars and drums that clatter like screen doors in the wind and ramble like an aimless drive through the kind of monotonous American landscape the singer captures with such desperation, anger and humor.
Try A/2, A/3, A/4, B/6

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Totale’s Turns

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The Fall, “Totale’s Turns” (Superior Viadcut, 2018; original release 1980)
Early live set with one of Mr. Smith’s peak backing units. The rhythm section rattle-twitches forward in Mr.-Toad’s-Wild-Ride style over serrated, frantic-strummed guitar drones and some particularly choice Mark E ranting.
Try 2/2, 2/3, 2/5
4/7/19

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Lonerism

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Tame Impala, “Lonerism” (Modular, 2012)
This project is one of the more impressive attempts I’ve heard at a truly contemporary take on “psychedelic rock.” Spare, pulsing music with a sun=blinded feel and mirage-like sound-bursts. This is poppier than their/his first, but just as good.
Try 2, 6.
1/13/13

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Out of the Garden

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Tancredi, “Out of the Garden” (Mexican Summer, 2016)
In the neo-alternative, angular grunge-pop vein of speedy Ortiz, Waxahatchee, et al, but more full-throttle punk than them in some places, more bubblegum-singsongy in others. Inventive, compelling work. Try 5, 9
11/10/16

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The Only Years

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Tee Vee Pop, “The Only Years” (Desire/Mitzvah, 2013; original recordings 1982)
Female post-punk unit from Denmark with a likably choppy sound, halfway between the jarringly bright pop of the Mo-Dettes and the grey churn of X-Mal Deutschland.
Try A/4, B/1
7/29/14

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I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,

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Teenage Larvae, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” 7” (Sympathy, 1990)
Fun side project from Midwest noise-rockers (members of Cows, God Bullies). A-side is a creepily backwoods-accented take on the Hank Williams classic featuring a guitar solo that sounds like it was played backwards through a phone with a bad connection. B-side features lots of pandemonium and girls cursing.
Try A/1, B/1
1/23/14

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Number One

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Teenage Lovers, “Number One” (Randy, 2010)
Likable garage-punk, kind of a throwback to the glammy/sing-songy genre template of the early 2000s, but more raw and contemporary.
Try A/1
1/23/14

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