Artists starting with T

Killing Time

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Terry Malts, “Killing Time” (Slumberland, 2012)
More trademark Slumberland music, with mid-‘60s popisms filtered through a C86/Jesus&Mary Chain fuzz-noise-haze, but these guys (& gal?) stand out as being more bare-knuckle punk rock than their peers. It evokes the concrete-jungle feel of the Ramones as much as their sound, and that’s a rare and excellent feat.
Try 1-4, 9 (“Mall Dreams,” a true middle-finger-to-straight-society punk rock anthem!), 10-11, 13
2/28/12

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Yes On Blood

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The Mallard, “Yes On Blood” (Castle Face, 2012)
First thing I’ve seen from this label since their reissue of the first Fresh&Onlys LP, and these fellow-San Franciscans ply a similar skronky-yet-sonorous psych-garage sound, but with a more fractured/wacky sensibility and some seriously twisted and exciting song structures that’ll take you on a wild ride.
Try 2, 5
2/28/12

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Tokyo

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The Legendary Stardust Cowboy And the Altamont Boys, “Tokyo” (Cracked Piston, 2002)
“The Ledge” is one of the great visionary maniacs of postwar popular music; the man actually scored a minor hit single in 1968, and here he teams up with various West Coast punk luminaries for a typically wild time. Ledge’s M.O. is frenzied country/rockabilly with vocals that don’t seem totally unfamiliar at first, until his word-salad verse-improvisations twist the rhythm in some perplex direction, or he lets loose a stream of semi-animal grunts and hollers.
Try 2, 3, 9

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Novaya Zemlya

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Thomas Köner, “Novaya Zemlya” (Touch, 2012)
Electronic/sampled composition from a guy with an abiding love for the coldest places on earth, including the titular area of Russia. Listen closely and you’ll feel the world around you thin out and come to a total halt.
Try any of the 3 selections.
8/23/12

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Red Night

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The Hundred in the Hands, “Red Night” (Warp, 2012)
Dark electronica infused with hard-edged guitar and pop hooks. Has a compellingly obsessive, insomniac sensibility, evoking subway tunnels and penthouse terraces alike, with sleek elegance and nightmare clatter.
Try 1, 5, 7, 8
7/12/12

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Let It Out

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The Hombres, “Let It Out” (Verve/Forecast 1968)
Memphis garage-rockers, so sparse and laid-back in spots, you’ll wonder if you’re awake sometimes while it’s on but with a tense rhythm-guitar counterpoint almost reminiscent of labelmates the Velvets. Nice four-in-the-morning-in-some-random-suburb-at-the-end-of-the-decade feel here, with Staxish organ that adds a faint tinge of gospel illumination to the soundscape.
Try 1/ 2, 1/ 4, 1/ 5
11/10/16

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Veni Veni Vicious

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The Hives, “Veni Veni Vicious” (Burning Heart, 2000)
Swedish garage-punk with a dynamic, ‘90s-style Stooges influence, raw, heavy and melodic. Still ranks as the most brutally abrasive guitar sound ever to break on MTV.
Try 1, 4, 6, 7
8/23/12

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Your Mind Works In Reverse

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The Human Expression [et al.], “Your Mind Works In Reverse” (Collectables, 1998; original releases 1966-68)
Really frayed-edge psych-garage-punk, lots of mind-shattered bad-trip drone guitar, minor-key pop melodicism twanging the chords of melancholy with bone-rattling intensity.
Try 1, 5, 7
11/10/16

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Some Days You Get The Thunder

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The Gateway District, “Some Days You Get The Thunder” (It’s Alive, 2011)
I never got that into the Soviettes, but these former members of that group here deliver a set of songs that live up to the ragged greatness of their Minneapolis punk-and-roll predecessors (think Replacements/Hüskers, etc. when they were young and on fire) while sounding totally contemporary. Beer, desperation, romance, the Mississsippi, two girls’ voices intertwining and holding on for dear life until a guitar roars out of the darkness—this is how it’s done, an dit sounds pretty damn great.
Start with 6, 7
1/6/12

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Clever One

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The Flipsides, “Clever One” (Pink & Black, 2002)
Fast, crisp hard-driving rock and roll, touching on (Dickies/Buzzcocks’) pop-punk, power-pop, and garage, but its own thing. Yearning, sardonic sensibility and twisty, almost Costello-esque song structures. Excellent.
Try ½, 1/ 5, 1/ 6
6/18/18

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