Listening to Dengue Fever for my last post got me on the whole Rock Music via The Far East. A while back, while YouTubing Myself I stumbled upon perhaps the greatest rock band of the late ’50s: the Tielman Brothers.

I could go on for a few graphs about how they grew up in Indonesia, their father was a captain and later quartermaster in the KNIL (Royal Dutch Indonesian Army) and, after being in a Japanese concentration camp and raising his family, encouraged his children to play music. They toured Indonesia, then got huge in the Netherlands, yadda yadda. Fuckit, just check out the clip and dig in:

rock!

We recently interviewd Dr. Matt Destruction, the mustachioed bassist of The Hives. Their latest album, the Black And White Album, is my favorite from them yet, probably owing to its musical diversity (within the spectrum of garage rock, anyway). Dr. Matt was cool, and even through a series of bad connections and a mild language barrier (I had to explain what a pinky toe is, for example) we managed to get the goods out of him.

Check it out on our main site here.