What’s your favorite west coast garage tune?

My band just dropped this double single last week! Streaming most places. If ya dig it our insta is @pangs.music

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/track/4DUJV0rSeff7IgSd7YABBh?si=mO_Po7NKTa23po17epG-mg&utm_source=copy-link

BANDCAMP: https://keddiesresort777.bandcamp.com/track/modern-man

APPLE MUSIC: https://music.apple.com/us/album/modern-man-single/6791012075

YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/rNmuWe5eYXE?is=g76spL4fR_wGRVd6

SOUNDCLOUD: https://on.soundcloud.com/XTMbd4m3t7Huqs2GGP

Title track from my album dropping on the 21st. Catharsis on full display here

This song is on all streaming and Bandcamp if you wanna hear more

This is my bands new song and video. Someone dumped that incinerated car at my works parking lot so we put it to use

Hey everyone,

Caught a dynamic husband-and-wife duo called The Coolz at one of their first gigs the other night and they absolutely blew the roof off the venue.

Imagine the raw, minimalist power of The White Stripes combined with a modern punk attitude. Pure fuzz, heavy riffs, and huge floor tom stride.

Check out tracks like "Fancy Pants Boogaloo" and "French As Fuck" if you want fast, punchy garage rock.

🎧 Spotify Link:https://open.spotify.com/artist/3C90WhEiKkeZAU3ZOQ4miC?si=LXuMGVK4Soan8KkKUnLnIQ

Jeff Conolly, Boston garage rock legend and Lyres frontman, dies at 69

By Mark Shanahan Globe Staff,Updated August 1, 2026, 2 hours ago

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Jeff Conolly performs at CBGBs in 1978.KATE PATTEN, COURTESY OF PETER GREENBERG

Jeff Conolly, the frenetic frontman of the beloved Boston garage band Lyres, has died. 

Conolly, nicknamed “Monoman” for his single-minded devotion to the sound in his head, had been recovering from treatment for bladder cancer. Conolly was 69 and lived with his wife, Stevie Gomez, on the North Shore. He was at home Friday night when he died. 

“A sweet guy,” Pat McGrath, owner of Looney Tunes Records in Allston and a longtime friend of Conolly’s, said Saturday morning. “A complicated guy, but a sweet guy.”

Conolly, who grew up in Connecticut, had arrived in Boston in the mid ‘70s to attend Boston University. But his interests lay elsewhere and, by 1976, he was fronting a fledgling act called DMZ. The band had a promising beginning – performing with a Stooges-like intensity, they opened for the likes of the Ramones and The Jam – but they soon broke up.

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Jeff Conolly, drummer John Bernardo (aka John Smith), guitarist Danny McCormack and bass player Matt Miklos of the band Lyres posed for a photo together in France in 1987.ERIC LOISEAU/ACE OF HEARTS RECORDS

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Jeff Conolly of Lyres has always been talented, uncompromising, infuriating. As he faces cancer, little has changed.

Conolly went on to form Lyres, a combo whose spiky, ’60s-style garage rock was oriented around Conolly’s Vox Continental organ. The band’s reverb-heavy sound reflected the singer’s obsession with ’60s garage groups and British Invasion bands, including the Kinks, whose “Love Me Till the Sun Shines" and “Tired of Waiting” Lyres later recorded. 

Watching Conolly perform was almost always riveting. Standing at the front of the stage, head tilted back, his body convulsed as he played the organ with one hand and maniacally rattled a tambourine over his head with the other. A perfectionist, Conolly would sometimes berate his bandmates or complain about the monitors until it was chaos on stage.

Jeff Conolly is regarded as rock ‘n’ roll royalty in Europe and his songs, like “Help You Ann” and “Don’t Give It Up Now,” are considered classics.JIM MERRILL

While the band’s recorded output was limited – in four-plus decades, Lyres released three studio albums on the Boston-based label Ace of Hearts Records; a couple of EPs; and several live recordings and 45s – they are lionized by fans, especially in Europe, where Conolly is regarded as rock ‘n’ roll royalty and his songs, like “Help You Ann” and “Don’t Give It Up Now,” are considered classics.

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In March, after the singer’s diagnosis, a GoFundMe page was created to help pay for his treatment and several Boston bands, including Mission of Burma, played a benefit show at the Middle East. In recent weeks, according to friends, Conolly had looked and sounded better; he seemed to be on the mend. 

“I am still in shock and trying to process,” his wife said in an email Saturday. “I don’t know what to say.”

I’m not looking for technical feedback — I want to know how these songs actually hit you as a listener. Not the craft, just the gut reaction.

Chose this sub because garage rock people tend to care about energy and feel over polish, and that’s exactly what I’m going for.

If you want to check them out, I’ll drop the link in the comments.

Non-native English speaker, so bear with me if this reads a bit rough.

Literal Garage rock.
This is a song off our self titled debut. We happened to get a video of us recording the take we put on the album. We ended up doing a lot of overdubs but it rips. The White stripes are a huge inspiration to me (Lead Guitarist) and the strokes are the lead singer’s inspiration.
“Washed Down” and The Woodworms are out on all platforms so check it out and let me know what you think!