PIG BOYS

Living in the Future   EP

(Self-issued)

By the moment your eyes find these words, Michigan may have fallen. Rock'n'Roll in quintessence -- shredding and piledriving, as can only be blasted by ten-times-alive provocateurs (in this instance, of Garage Punk blood) who hold indulgence and studio frippery in merited, massive contempt -- erupts omnidirectionally. That they accomplish velocitous ferocity using common means illustrates the powerfulness possible in sidewalk circumstance. Wolverine State, R.I.P.

Recommended: "SUV," "Don't Ya Wanna?," "Make Me a Man"  "Living in the Future," "Lovesick"

Videos: "SUV"   "Don't Ya Wanna?"   "Lovesick"

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Chemical Valley Mutants

Struggle

(Self-issued)

Acerbic castigations of existent authority, coupled with jaw-jutted demands for liberty, are spat in scraped-concrete tones, and arrive within zoom-smash missiles. Praise I penned in review of the band's 2023 Poisoned ("Songs collected on their newest disc rage against worldly injustices via fierce assault on polite-society notions of musicality") hold no less true today. Led by filmmaker Jay Crimson, all involved seem intent on thunderous obliteration; damned if they don't prove equal to the ambition.

July 3 release is scheduled.

Recommended: "Struggle," "Pessimist," "No Supremacy," "Ignorant," "Slander," "When Her Eyes Roll Back"

No current Video available. This is a live performance of "Left Hand Path," from Poisoned.

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Cash O'Riley

Booze, Lust, Lies & Heartache...Revisited   digital

(Rumble Road Records)

Initially issued in 2002, Cash's Booze again populates earways, now in fresh incarnation. Good ol' hayseed romping mashed into chipper with  outlawism and razor-ready Blues; what exits demands discernment. Select passages recall glorious half-moment before hillbilly heels were kicked up toward what local hands would term Rockabilly. Every love-lucky, back-country buck carries a homestyle dolly's curling b&w snap in his britches' bib pocket.

(All proceeds from digital sales go directly to worthy cause "Hobohemian" Cash.)

Recommended: "Send Along," "Big City Queen," "Everytime You Walk," "The Last Time," "I'll Be Gone," "I May Have," "Make You Cry," "Enough Beer"

Videos: "Big City Queen"   "Everytime You Walk"   "The Last Time"   "Enough Beer"

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Hayley and the Crushers 

It may well be that the "headcase" spangled Hayley castigates in explosive tones is kin to Heidi of Ramones infamy. (Though lyric "With the white lines all over your jewel case" suggests that illicit medication factors in prominently.) Headbanging animation bursts up and out, like party-fun confetti with incisors. 

Video: "Jewel Case"

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Koffin Kats

s/t   reissue

(Ring of Fire / Koffin Kats Records)

Might there yet breathe persons ignorant of the Kats' habitation on Psychobilly's storm-ravaged, topmost plateau? It is a land where mis-spirited and noisome blasties roam, snorting disdain at normalcy's staidness. Koffin Kats' free-for-all spectacles - be they grooved or atop performative floorboards - are ones from which recovery is both unobtainable and undesired. 

Their 2006 debut waxing has been re-released in two versions. One was issued by the feral ones, themselves. Ring of Fire dispensed a European limited edition. 500 copies of Ring's were cobbled, with random vinyl colorations and a four-color insert cast into the bargain.

Recommended: "Graveyard Tree," "Red Alert," "V8 Nightmare," "Koffin Kat Rock," "Sleep"

Videos: "Graveyard Tree" (live 2013)   "V8 Nightmare" (live 2012)   "Sleep" (live 2006)

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