While the coke-fiends out there might miss a bit of the trebly snap, the heightened fidelity actually highlights their most frenetic moments: the stereo is more pronounced, so you hear cool friction in the double-tracked vocals and more Thin Lizzy influence in songs such as “Run the Night.”

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imaad wasif with adam garcia and bobb bruno as two part beast | dan monick Download: Imaad Wasif’s Mixtape [Audio clip: view full post to listen] L.A. RECORD alum Imaad Wasif is in residency three Thursdays this month at Spaceland, and each show is curated to reflect a different theme—tonight’s “Bad Vibes,” next week’s “Faith [...]

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Just like you can point to Nirvana’s Bleach and say “THAT was what Sub Pop sounded like,” someday I’ll point to Nebula’s Heavy Psych and tell an inquisitive great-niece that “THIS was Tee Pee Records!” Songs such as “Dream Submarine” shoot for the star-struck wizardry of Hawkwind and Amon Duul II, yet deceptively Satanic sounding songs like “Crown of Thorns” emulate the bombastic bluesy-ness of early Foghat and ZZ Top. And then Nebula pauses ever so slowly over some low power chords a la Sabbath and Pentagram before ripping into some blistering stoner-rock Deep Purple guitar licks.

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luke mcgarry Download: Graveyard “Thin Line” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from Graveyard out now on Tee Pee) Swedish heavy band Graveyard (last seen and interviewed for the Manifest Destiny show last October) will be returning to the U.S. to tour with CKY and play with Night Horse at L.A.’s Bootleg Theatre and [...]

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The Warlocks have been panned for both self-similarity and for trying different sounds, for taking drugs and not taking drugs, for their chaos and careerism. At this point in their career, if they made a fantastic album, would anyone stop coming up with memes long enough to notice?

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Territory BBQ and Records is the new restaurant-slash-record-store from Tony Presedo and Curtis Brown—formerly of Tee Pee Records and the band Bad Wizard, respectively. They will stock heavy music and serve heavy food. This interview by John Henry.

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Download: The Warlocks “Red Camera” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from The Mirror Explodes out May 19 on Tee Pee) The lead track from this month’s new Warlocks album, courtesy the folks at Tee Pee!

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This is an album to listen to in the dark, and to listen to LOUD. By the time you get to the last track, and Timms starts screaming like Cronos from Venom, you’ll realize that while these guys are playing their cards a bit close on their first release, they’ll probably be doing some really original and evil stuff in the years to come.

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Tweak Bird are prowling the streets of Austin (just like Audacity, who are so awesomely unsupervised the cops have stopped them twice!) and today they will be playing the Tee Pee day party at Club 1808 with Night Horse, the Warlocks and more. This archival interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Download: Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound “Two Birds Sang” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Tee Pee’s Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound (as seen often around L.A. at loudrock events) released this new track today, featuring members of Sleepy Sun. Their next album (with this song) was recorded with the venerable Tim Green and [...]

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