Trevor and The Joneses: Love It!

Psychedelic rock band Trevor and The Joneses are down to a trio, so Trevor Jones had to add drums and percussion to his work load. The new single Love It! is a short and sweet statement, about halfway power-pop and garage rock, genres that spring to mind immediately when discussing the entertainment of their hometown Las Vegas. Visitors of that neon-lit city will have to wander into the back streets, where live music is still actually live and not regarded as the background music for slot machines and overprized dinner arrangements.

Trevor and The Joneses: Get It!

Psychedelic rock quartet Trevor and The Joneses have dropped the punk element from their songs and now look at bands like Marc Bolan's T-Rex, The Kinks and the Buffalo Springfield as their points of reference on their new Get It! EP.

The Las Vegas based band signature harmonzing is in full flight on the opening track Sugar Me Timbers and the title track - the latter also boasts a basic crunchy garage rock guitar riff. The final track, Mumbo Jumbo is a 101 for all musicains aspiring to put their acoustic skills center stage. Get It! is ten minutes of sonic bliss that you don't want to end.

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HCTF's annual list of the 20 albums that will be in regular rotation for many years to come. The long list of memorable releases boasted about 50 albums. Tough decisions were made narrowing it down. As per usual it's a mixed bag of genres: rock in its various incarnations (garage, hard, post, prog), avant-garde, jazz, pop, folk, funk. Also of note: four live albums made the cut.

Today: countdown from number 20 to 16.

Please keep in mind to shop at your local record store, buy directly from the artist, attend live shows. And shut the fuck up while the band is playing.

Trevor and The Joneses: Take You to Stay

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Las Vegas isn't known as city that is associated with cutting edge music. It's a place for over the hill acts making a killing catering to audiences who are taking a break between gambling sessions. But as per usual in any major city there is a small but vibrant underground scene where good things happen. Psychedelic rock quartet Trevor and The Joneses boasts not one, but two multi-instrumentalists and a swinging rhythm section. Their second album Take You to Stay is a colourful trip down memory lane, signposted by acts like Love, Nazz, Jefferson Airplane and The Velvet Underground.

They love to experiment - Breaking Bones is a clash of the East and West Coast guitar - and bring in a sitar played by Barnaby Gallagher to add an extra layer to the title track. Meteors is an improvised tracks that could have been produced by Joe Meek had he lived long enough to produce the early Pink Floyd. Jones' nasal vocals take center stage in Found, a melancholic, mostly acoustic, pop song.