Smith Westerns
Smith Westerns

They are a young (aged between 18 and 20) male quartet unimaginatively attired in emasculating jeans and floppy haircuts, and they write songs that te...

In the pages of Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, R.P. McMurphy tells junior psych patient Billy Bibbit, “You oughta be out in a convertible, w...

Buy at iTunesIt was a bold move on the part of Chicago-based garage rockers Smith Westerns to incorporate pieces of the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind o...

The Fat Possum record label just re-released this 2009 debut record at the same time as its reissue of The Slider by T. Rex. More than a coincidence ...

This waifish Chicago foursome's lo-fi garage-glam debut literally sounds like a band steaming up your basement -- tinny, muffled, exuberant, with song...

Part of the blogosphere’s downfall is that there seems to be a lack of variety between the majority of “buzz bands.” Nowadays, the points of similarit...

The resurgence of the lo-fi movement in recent years has been peculiar for many reasons but consistency of approach has never been a problem for the g...

"Gut Ding will Weile haben." Das wird man sich vermutlich bei Fat Possum gedacht haben und bringt nun mit über einem Jahr Verspätung das selbstbetit...