Fine limited edition 7' vinyl by today's everyone favourite label, Trouble in Mind! You got Ty Segall covering Bob Seger, CoCoComa doing the Wipers, awesome Ottawa's White Wires covering Ohio Express and finally surf Garage Punkers, Charlie & The Moonhearts interpreting Arthur Lee's Love! Wow! This shit is a Total Blast!

Greg Cartwright caught live solo somewhere in Milwaukee. Just him with a rockin’ acoustic guitar going trough is whole repertoire. Some Reigning Sound hits ( I Don’t Care, Reptile Style, I’ll Cry, Drowning, Take A Ride…) Compulsive Gamblers (Stop & Think It Over, Your Happiness, Sour and Vicious Man), Oblivians (Bad Man, Live this Life…), etc. The crowd is really into it and gets the show grooving and the sound is fantastic for a live set. The LP comes also with a bonus 7" of him live on some Milwaukee’s Radio and backed by awesome Goodnight Loving where he performed 3 songs (one is Mary Lou an Oblivians song). Nice extra and the 7” mock Goner records packaging is damn funny because it’s actually on quite fine Dusty Medical label.

Greg Carthwright’s Reigning Sound very first album. A warm folky-soulful low-tempo sound in the vein of Big Star or the Byrds. Miles away from the “Too Much Guitar Sound” but still very good and well crafted songs. A lot more closer to “Home for the Orphans” if you ask me.

I got this because Mr, Shoe of Teengenerate play drums on this one and Fink from Teengenerate/Raydios/Firestarter’s fame wrote a song on this one. Also, I love Japanese rock garage and this one is pretty good! Simple girl catchy garage punk'n'Roll. Great cover of the Ronettes (I Wonder) and nice Pink vinyl too... But if you're looking for some great female fronted japanese band check out The Prambath!

The Reigning Sounds is back and is definitely one of my favourite contempory band. True Memphis sounds that recall the glorious past of Alex Chilton’s Big Star! With Love and Curse the band is back with a soul mellower sound that is closer to Time Bomb High School than the Too much Guitar rock garage sound. Greg Cartwright can’t do no wrong and prove it again on this great album! A must have for any Memphis music lover

The Oranges is the most exciting bubblegum power pop band coming from Japan. Think Bay City Rollers jamming with the Ramones in a party host by Ohio Express and where T Rex and Sweet are invited! Some songs make me think also the Japanese 70’s power pop band The Badge. Anyway Japan rules!

Geoff Lip Danielik might not be a familiar name for many, but this guy was part of a couple great obscure Power pop band in late 70’s, early 80’s. The Now is probably the most known but still hard to find. Peroxyde and Alter Ego got the reissue treatment on fine Italian Rave-Up Records but are long gone. Anyway this Japanese import retrospective cover many high point of his carreer and the four band he was part of. Many great, genius obscure power pop tracks in here. If you dig stuff like Sorrows, The Records, The Moberlys, The Go, power pearls compilations, etc. you should manage to get a copy of this fine japanese import!

7 seconds The Crew is classic oldscool Punk Hardcore the way it is supposed to be! No metal shit here! Real oldschool hardcore punk! Fast, Positive with plenty of energy! I fucking like this album! I had this copy on a tape when I was a teenager and I needed to handle it on wax! Everyone must own this record in is collection!

Nice 70’s style punk sings in Swedish! I think there is a member of Regulations in it. If you like obscure 70’s/ 80’s Swedish punk band like Rude Kids, Travolta Kids (first 7”) or any other Swedish Punk band you can find on Killed By Death or Power Pearls V/A, you must definitely check out this band! I think this is their 3rd album and believe me i’ll make sure to be looking for the previous two album soon enough.

Don’t let the ugly name fool you, this is not another among 100 of other Ramones clones mutant pop wanna-be band. The Gimmies are from Japan and take that Motor City Sound from Detroit with that Aussie proto-punk greatness and do it à la sauce garage japonaise! Think of the MC5, The Stooges, The Dogs, Mitch Ryder, Sonic Rendez Vous, Radio Birdman, the Saints and Teengenerate! This is what The Gimmies are all about! Fantastic pure rockin’ album! Again Japan delivers the goods! I really need to make my way up there one day, too many bands rockin’ the shit out there! Too bad I couldn’t get my hand on a vinyl version.