Chris Spedding
face to face
(self)

Other than the man's redoubtable adtoitness, worth lies in song selection. Relatively obscure material is favored over more predictable favorites (save for signature "Motorbikin'"). Listening now, one wonders why any enjoyed limited regard.

Recommended: "Wild In the Street," "Counterfeit," "Shakin' All Over," "Gunfight," "She's My Friend," "Rip It Up," "Music Breakout."

Video: "Wild In the Street" (Orig. version)
           "Gunfight" (early live version)
           "Rip It Up" (early live version)
           "Music Breakout" (early live version)

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Go-Go Killers
Hymns and Hearses
(self)

Nothing distinctly meritorious in these measured, hacksawed grooves, unless you count furious flames, casual inhumanity, and a generally toxic air that neutralizes whole towns of cretins.

Recommended: "When Destruction Comes To Town," "Death Comes Lookin',""Poisonous," "The Fuck It Song."

Video: "Death Comes Lookin'"


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Reverendo Frankenstein
TIC TAC (self)

Ink-sleeved surf-shtick from the Mad Daddy monster factory.


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The Psychonauts
Go Rockabella Go
(self)

Pristine production ensures each player effectiveness. Guttural pipes splay authority. And the Beat compels to fracture. 

Recommended: "Rockabella," "Hot Girls and Cadillacs," "Romes Loves Juliet," "I Need You So," "Hoochie Coochie Bop," "The Vampire Is Back In Town."

Videos: "Rockabella"
             "Hot Girls and Cadillacs"
             "Romes Loves Juliet"

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Calabrese
flee the light
(Spookshow Records)

Thunder lashed upward, through sinister darkness amid which natural and unnatural phenomena lie in creepily satiating communion. Most often slowed to momentous effect. Once witnessed, no cleansing. 

Recommended: "He Who Flees the Light," "Let Doom Overtake Us," "King Prowler," "Demonspitter," "Hallucinatory Void," "And In the End...I Am Nothing."

Video: "He Who Flees the Light,"
                "Let Doom Overtake Us"
            "King Prowler"
                 "Demonspitter"



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Sirocco Bros.
Down Home
(self)

In a just world, "Boneshaker" would be blasting from every audio contrivance and its video would grace every screen. Sadly, this is not such a clime -- though we can better our bit.

Recommended: "Boneshaker," "Down Home," "Hobo Jump," "Goliath Tigerfish," "The Devil's Music," "Knocking On the Devil's Door," "Tiki Head."

Videos:   "Boneshaker"
               "Down Home"
               "Goliath Tigerfish"


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The Altar Billies
Union Pacific Railroad
single
(self)

The rail that extended American civilization, and music of rural character, are a match made all the more felicitous by rollicking passage.

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Hudson City Rats
They Can't Take What I Ain't Got
(self)

Direct rockabilly that digs itself the most is refreshing, after slogging through mechanistic bilge that sullies today's airwaves. No Clydes allowed.

Recommended: "Balzac Boogie," "Mercy," "11:24," "She's a Woman."

Videos: "Balzac Boogie"
             "Mercy"


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