New Loudness Tuesdays!

Fritz Helder and the Phantoms give us some seriously fun and smart retro dance-pop. For this we are highly grateful.

The Units, a punk-era act from the Bay Area, had an interesting battle cry, especially for the time: Fuck the guitars! Along with Nervous Gender and the Screamers, they were one of the first synthpunk acts. Thanks to the brand-new release History of the Units on the Portland, OR-based Community Library, their music’s released from obscurity.

Austin, TX-based Woven Bones offer the latest update on sexy, stripped-down and fuzzed-up Jesus and Mary Chain-style, noisy garage-rock. They are super-awesome and we can’t wait to hear more from them.

—DJ Yeti