Kevin Bronson on October 8th, 2013

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Garage-rock from New York City. Yes, it’s inevitable Skaters would be drawing comparisons to the Strokes, especially with the way singer Michael Ian Cummings tosses off lyrics like cigarette butts. Not quite the swaggering, black-clad garage-rockers your cool uncle likes, Skaters at times sound like a more sober FIDLAR (your call on whether that’s a good thing) or less British Arctic Monkeys (ditto). Before hooking up U.K. guitarist Joshua Hubbard, Cummings and band mate Noah Rubin played in the Dead Trees, who spent some time in L.A. and in 2010 released a nifty 7-inch for White Iris. Now signed to Warner, Skaters in April released a new 7-inch, “I Wanna Dance (But I Don’t Know How)” (b/w “Armed”). The new video for the B-side was a collaboration between rapper Young Dope and director Danilo Parra. Skaters’ full-length is due Feb. 25.

||| Stream: The new single “Deadbolt”

|||| Live: Skaters open for Palma Violets on Oct. 19 at the El Rey Theatre.

||| Also: After the jump, check out “I Wanna Dance (But I Don’t Know How)”: