http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm3UGftvCRo
First Pitchfork did a big feature called Positive Destruction: San Francisco’s New Garage Rock. Then Scion released a whole movie called New Garage Explosion: In Love With These Times. They both, obviously, focus a lot on Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees and other hot SF bands. The movie mentioned briefly though that none of this ever would have happened without this band The Clean.
They’re from New Zealand. And the above song is pret-ty good. But I do believe it sounds like this Strokes b-side (almost exactly, really) more than any Oh Sees hit:
[Thanks, A!]
You mean The Strokes song sounds like The Clean?
Right.
The Clean played a great set at the Independent last year. There’s a lot of good late 70s/early 80s kiwi stuff out there (most notably, the Verlaines). Check out the Flying Nun Records catalog if you dig the sound.
That show was amazing.
Thumbs Off = The tits