Quentin Scott Jones & QDK

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Having flashed homicidal Rockabilly chops with Voice Above All Voices RG -- as well as with Golden Age sensation Charlie Gracie and major-rank bopstormers The Rockats -- Quentin digs savagely into more contemporary stylings. The results are equally brass-knuckled and knowingly infectious in superior Pop sway; Quentin's partners Dave Uosikkinen (drums/vocals) and Kenny Aaronson (bass/vocals) -- of Hooters and Yardbirds renowns, respectively -- rally to the crusade as champions of especial skills.

Recommended: "Cold Cold Cold," "Make That Love," "Here Comes My Baby," "She's So Good," "One Last Ride"

Videos: "Cold Cold Cold"   "Here Comes My Baby"   "One Last Ride"

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Demented Are Go doghouse-basher Grischa Dördelmann can also be found in the Dukes; his participation is basically a Seal of Psycho Approval. A general 1980s approach is evident in the roar and rumble that hulking Grischa et al drive home in their third waxing. From maniac guitar devastations, to skins pummeled so severely they seem about to rip into shreds, to a main throat whose owner probably crunches windshield glass between incisers and canines, each sinister stomp is lovingly scarred and thrown in indiscriminate avalanche. Get shellacked.

Recommended: "Nightmare," "Body Bag," "Eventually," "Old No. 7," "Sometimes It Kills Me Being Lonely," "Raving Mad," "Scary Mary"

Videos: "Nightmare"   "Eventually"   "Sometimes It Kills Me Being Lonely"   "Scary Mary"

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Hillbilly Halloween - A Collection of Haunted Country and Hillbilly Music!

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He warn't tellin' no lie, that old stump-jumper down the way: After Jasper n'em douse the fire under the kettle, when lightness starts t'fadin', danged if ha'nts don't come 'round an' fire up cold cinders. You'd be right smart t'bar the door, if'n you got a hankerin' t'hear this here on the victrola.

Recommended: "Flyin' Saucer Baby" (Georgia Jim), "Rockin' Bones" (Ronnie Dawson), "Forces of Evil" (Jay Brinkley), "The Ghost in the Graveyard" (The Prairie Ramblers), "Riders in the Sky" (Stan Jones), "Jole Blon's Ghost" (Orville Newby and the Saddle Serenaders), "Haunted House Boogie" (The 3D Valley Boys)

Videos: "Flyin' Saucer Baby"   "Jole Blon's Ghost"   "Ghost-Town-Boogie"   "Haunted House Boogie"   "Hashing Up the Devil"

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Wreckin' the Decades - Volume 4

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Variations in quality being common to various-artist compendiums, exactly that can be anticipated here, though with the good news that plusses predominate. Uncoiling and lashing here are factors characteristic to Alan Wilson's Western Star stable -- including dire topics, rampageous rhythms, brown-paper-wrapper smuttiness, and doghouse-smackaround crownings. 

Recommended: "The Jolly Collier" (The Coal Dust Cowboys), "Billy Turned Psycho" (Dukes of Tijuana), "Living Dead Girl" (The Rock-It Dogz), "Undead Doll" (The Surfin' Wombatz), "Offski Boogie" (Henry & the Bleeders), "Freddie's Luck" (El-Camino), "Three-Holed Electric Love Doll" (The Coal Dust Cowboys),  "Washed Out" (Dukes of Tijuana), "B-Movie Killer Porno Queen" (The Bad Roaches), "The Undertaker's Girl" (Stage Frite), "Decapitate the Establishment" (El-Camino)

Videos: "The Jolly Collier"   "Billy Turned Psycho"   "Undead Doll"   "Decapitate the Establishment"

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Whatta ya do with this Bad-Girls Gone Wild metallic megatonnage? Buy it, spin it, and love it all the way into a videopathic maelstrom.

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McKinley James

Even were he not a valuable contemporary connection to greatness that reverbated amongst rafters of Blues joints back in America's rootsier times, Mr. James would still pocket plaudits for personal gifts of simultaneous particularness and universality. Enrichment can be got just by opening one's ears.

Videos: "Back On the Run" b/w "Hooked On You"   live (4:59 July 2026)

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Danny Dean Anti-s up

In October 7 Facebook missives, Nashville-transplant Danny Dean sounded justifiably upbeat: He got the band back together.

"I have my first Anti rehearsal this Friday," he noted, referring to a reconstitution of that 1980s Punk agit-cell. "As soon as I get a steady lineup, I'm gonna start doing shows in the near future. I'll keep you posted. The Punk scene is exploding out here in Nashville believe it or not -- bigger than the Rockabilly scene."

As if its rocketship savagery weren't enough, the original Anti juggernaut also distinguished itself in the region's storied shambolic mileau (which had also produced the Circle Jerks and Black Flag), by bannering broadsides against government corruption and Fake News lies, as well as by protesting warfare and urging world peace. 

Danny's fresh adventuring via the group with which he rose to salad days-celebration was a topic over which the singer/songwriter / guitarist rightly enthused.

First, though, memories came gushing.

"Back in the late '70s and early '80s we had KROQ with Rodney on the Rock and we had Tim Yohan with Maximum Rock 'n' Roll radio, and a few other stations that were smaller that promoted the new music that the mainstream wouldn't play."

Issued in 1982 by New Underground Records. Rereleased by Radiation Records in 2018.

2023 Dr. Strange Records release, available as orange, black, or black-splatter vinyl

Back to now: "Soon to be releasing next year an Anti anniversary vinyl record. I took 23 of the early '80s recordings and put it on one vinyl record. It's at mastering right now, and the artwork is being put together. It's coming out on Radiation Records.

"Hopefully, also going to release an anniversary album for the band Easter that I had. That's also at mastering, and will come out on vinyl. I'm using old photos and revamping that record that might be some pictures of Mike Ness on the cover when he was in the band."

Another Easter line-up

"When the Easter album came out in 1987 we were very unhappy with it," Danny lamented. "We always wanted to go back and revamp it when we got some money and time, but we never did. We got an extremely low budget from the label to do the album, so we had to rush through everything. We were very embarrassed.

"Now the record sounds really good, after all these years. A new album design would help a lot."

How that initial 2026 Anti rehearsal went is not known. But one thing we can all confidently wager upon is that Danny Dean -- whether assuming Punk stance or swinging Rockabilly persona -- still has miles and miles of musical defiance to go before he sleeps. If ever.

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