The Roughnecks

Guess Who

(Tombrero)

Listeners get both roundhouse wallops and affably tuneful come-ons. Guess Who first glimpsed daylight as a 12" in 2017, via Drunken Monkey Records. Last year, Tombrero reintroduced it to ears as a digital offensive; that same year saw the German ramrods rip straight into cerebra at Santa Susanna, Spain's Psychobilly Meeting festival. (The previous year, they'd tipped hats to 40 years and counting.) Songs' trajectories benefit from unanticipated avenues.

Recommended: "The Sleeper," "Guess Who," "Flying," "RWTD"

Videos: "Guess Who"   "Flying"

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Rhiz & the Sugarplums

All Over Again

(Rhiannon McArthur)

The varied common-fold sentiments of Country, as perfected by Opry hands of bygone spotlight, thrive yet in our midst. "How can I miss you, when you won't go away?," Rhiz laments in one passage, murmuring elsewhere "I got tunnel vision, and all I see is you." All Over Again is her second wax, and the home-folks musicalizing in its eleven tracks -- at turns ruminatory and buck-wild swinging for the pastures -- is as purty as a speckled pup. 

Group members presently touring with Rhiz are Pete Daffy/guitar; Pete Fidler/steel guitar; Jordy Hickey/double bass; and Dean Muller/drums. As Rhiz explained to an Australian Music Scene interviewer earlier this month, though, studio personnel differed:

"I was lucky enough to record this album at Tree House Studios in Nashville, Tennessee in September last year (2025). It includes eleven of my original songs, and I recorded them with a bunch of incredible studio musicians who are as lovely as they are talented.

"We had Dennis Crouch on bass for majority of the tracks (who has played with Elton John and Ringo Starr), and also Mark Winchchester on bass for a few (Emmy-Lou Harris, The Stray Cats).

"We had Justin Amaral on drums (Jim Lauderdale), Dakota Holden on pedal steel guitar (Lukas Nelson), Aaron Till on fiddle and mandolin (Asleep At The Wheel, The Time Jumpers) and Jeff Taylor on piano accordion (Paul Simon, Elvis Costello).

"It was recorded and mixed by Tim Carter (Tree House Studios, Nashville TN), mastered by Dave Harris (Studio B Mastering, Charlotte, NC) and produced by myself!"

Australian tour dates for October and November are set. Good times'll jump like popcorn on a hot stove.

Recommended: "Thinking Too Much," "The Whole Lot," "Give It Up," "Long Long Way," "Tripped and I Fell," "All Over Again," "Next to You," "In It to Win It"

Videos: "Thinking Too Much" (live)   "All Over Again"   "In It to Win It" (live)

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The Real Gone Trio

Psycho Rockabilly Est. 2016 (remastered) / Journey Into Mictlan

(Self-Issued)

For all Psycho-Rockabilly's headlong dash in excellent directions -- and, were it standing alone, cash registers pressed into frequent service would surely expire -- Journey into Mictlan surpasses it in both style and substance. Owing to platters like this, Earth is probably getting an intergalactic reputation as a party planet.

Psycho-Rockabilly Recommended: "Intro / Trouble," "Where Did My Baby Go," "Rock It"

Video: live "Intro / Trouble" "Where Did My Baby Go" (live, 2018)  

Journey to Mictlan Recommended: "Going Down," "Tell Me That You Love Me," "Real Gone Cluster," "Why Don't You Go Away," "Out the Door," "Picking in A," "Propane and Propane Accessories," "Tell Me," "Cannibal Beach," "Again," "Where Did My Baby Go"

Videos: "Real Gone Cluster"   "Out the Door"   "Propane and Propane Accessories"

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The Shower Puffs

Powerpuff Twist   digital EP

(Headshrinker Records)

"A sonic punch to the jaw," advised Add to Wantlist's Dennis, utterly without hyperbolic intent. Illustrated anew is that rudimentary instrumentation is all Rock'n'Roll ever needed. (Well, that and loads of danger-zone attitude.) Understated audio has the salutary function of leaving stark and bristly material/performances to leap undraped. Appreciation foams over.

Recommended: "Until the Light," "AI- Angry," "Tobacco On the Rocks," "C4 Psychiatric Disorder"

Video: Full four-track EP

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Pumpkin' Disorderly - a Halloween Goes Punk Compilation

Though unavailable for estimation at presstime, this All Hallow's Eve ghoulpendium pledges macabre titillation sufficient to warrant purchase by those who dare. 

(Presented by Crap-O-Rama -- "The Interplanetary Truckstop of the Lost Dimension. Oddities, Novelties, Vintage Pop Culture, Weird, Strange, and Unusual, Cryptids, Aliens and Paranormal Awesomeness!")

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The Palatinos

Dependably rugged stylings in slapback example are juiced by melodies exotic, draping the familiar in peculiar resplendence. Picture snake-charmers jiving across Eastern lands -- turbans on top, creepers on bottom.

Videos: "Midnight Drive-In Show"   "High Strangeness,"   "Blue Stars"   "Black Rose Trouble"

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Dr. Danny Roadkill Thompson

The Doctor is so far out, he's back in again. (Office hours commence 'round midnight.) Selecting from an array of six-stringed, wicked-fun scalpels, he carves loose-limbed jollity of precisely the sort sought by appreciators of wiggy frolic. Vocals spring forth on but one song considered, here -- and they bespeak a life spent rightly, from internship to shingle hung outside Lightning-Bolt Hospital.

Videos: "It's All or Nothing Honey" / "TC Baritone" / "Sidejacked"

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