The Uphill Gardeners were a short-lived trio from the 1995-1997 era of Los Angeles. In the mid 90’s our friends started driving us to good shows at the Huntington Library, Jabberjaw, and early Smell in Los Angeles. We were blown away by bands like Los Cincos, Godzik Pink, and the band Uphill Gardeners. When we [...]

The follow up to last year’s “Death Control” CD that garnered such praise, “Life Control” is an experiment further into the forays of the disjunct and fractured pop music that Christopher Curtis Smith is so akin to producing. “Life Control” sees Night Control venturing further into the dark depths of sonic experimentation and ambience, circling [...]

The newest LP from Metz, France’s Feeling of Love is a blues-wrangling nightmare, full of nods to The John Spencer Blues Explosion, The Velvet Underground, and French glue-wavers Crash Normal. This newest full-length studio album is an awesome follow up to their first LP and the one-sided 12″ from last few years. Songs include amazing [...]

Ty Segall (solo work, Sic Alps, Epsilons) and Mikal Cronin (Okie Dokie, Charlie and the Moonhearts) bust out a 10-track delight of psychedelic garage jams that is sure to please the most scrutinizing rocker. Equal parts danceable garage rock and effects-ridden psychedelia, “Reverse Shark Attack” is a mind-blowing explosion of loud guitars, pounding rhythms and [...]

A split release between Kill Shaman and Italy’s NO=FI Records (whose members happen to be in Hiroshima Rocks Around) joins these two wildly creative bands. Italy’s Hiroshima Rocks Around bang out half-a-dozen skronk punk tracks, blaring elements of post-punk, garage, and avant noise mish-mash through a distorted wall of brilliantly piercing guitars, saxophone, and brutal [...]

Mississippi’s one-man band Flight is back with his second ever release, a self-titled 10″ EP on Kill Shaman. A perfect medley of 70’s glam, 80’s punk and 60’s psych, Flight applies a fist-pumping lo-fi  pop sensibility that is over-distorted, punchy, and punk as fuck. Contains four distinct tracks that completely distinct and kills the inner [...]

The PInk Noise’s 3rd(?) full-length LP. A follow up to their great releases on Sacred Bones and Almost Ready. Awesome, pulsing lo-fi synths surrounded by dirty drum machines and distorted vocals from this Canadian two-piece. Highly recommended if you ever enjoyed the Residents or anything in that vein. A bit dirtier and more analog than [...]

The Watts Ensemble was born out of equal parts curiosity and ignorance. Brian Watson, who at the time had no idea what the circle of fifths was, embarked on a self induced dare to see how far he could take an idea. Would it be possible for a drummer with almost no musical training to [...]

Nerve City’s first large-format vinyl release brings us 6 brilliant tracks on a 45 RPM 10″ EP. Jason Boyer’s home recording project mixes low-fi garage, classic doo-wop, noise and reverb to produce a perfect blend of fuzzed out, toe-tappin’, head-bangin’ garage pop. Boyer’s home-recording techniques lend themselves to Nerve City’s sound, driving the truly dark [...]

Night Control is the home recording project of long time KS friend Christopher Curtis Smith, the post-pop genius of this era. Mixing ambient and found sounds, electronic drum machines, analog synthesizers, upright pianos, guitars, bass, drums and effects, Night Control brings all that is good in the world onto his first official CD release. Imagine [...]