Various Artists – Pushin’ Too Hard: American Garage Punk 1964-1967

After six decades and with the numerous Nuggets and Rubble compilations and box sets you would think there is nothing left to unearth from 60’s garage punk scene, well you’d be wrong as Pushin’ Too Hard: American Garage Punk 1964-1967 isn’t just your regular run though of obscure classics, it features tracks pressed on CD for the first time and some that have never been released in the UK before now. Although the garage punk genre was named retrospectively, there was a good reason for the banner that was slapped onto the band’s from the era, as this compilation features some of the band’s that inspired the punk explosion a decade later. Whilst the obvious names such as The Stooges and MC5 aren’t on here, because let’s be honest who hasn’...

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