'For decades, DC Larson has chronicled Rock'n'Roll and related phenomena. A former staff scribe for Rockabilly Magazine and Pinup America, he contributed freelance writings to Goldmine, No Depression, Blue Suede News, Wrecking Pit, and Punk Globe. Too, he authored liner notes for the Rockats and Barry Ryan, wrote for Robert Gordon's site, and penned book Flesh Made Music.'
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
V2
Stan's Guest List
(Still Unbeatable Records)
Manchester safety-pin vets summon renewed belligerence. Every man jack pounces, as is required by chord-and-riff, fists-forward attacks whose brick-wall jubilance and flashy treble swipes tend at times to recall David Jo and the Babylon boys.
Recommended: "Breakdown!," "I Don't Know," "Media Control," "On Fire," "All for Nothing," "Fast, Loud, Dirty Rock'n'Roll"
Videos: "Breakdown!" "Media Control" "On Fire" "Fast, Loud, Dirty Rock'n'Roll"
Teenage Bottlerocket
The Invisible Man 7" EP
(Pirates Press Records)
When several tune-scribes wax eloquent, fashion diversity is to be anticipated. Such is the matter here. Strains of aggression are intercut with studiously accessible constructions. But even when moderate melodiousness carries the day, attentive listeners will detect firepower.
(All four songs were recorded during sessions that produced 2025's Ready to Roll.)
Recommended: "Invisible Man," "You Made Me Get Called a Poser," "Pembrey's Face," "City at Night"
Videos: "Pembrey's Face" "City at Night"
The Triplejacks
The Wan Chai Sessions Live digital EP
(Diablo)
Man About Mayhem Doyley weaponizes six steely strings and forcibly grafts splinter-genres wicked and wiggy into a wrecking creature hanging ten on a nitroglycerin crest.
Recommended: "Hong Kong Stomp," "Cockroach," "Frenzy," "Rumble"
Videos: "Hong Kong Stomp" "Frenzy" (live in Hong Kong)
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Back in the Day, 1979
Tony Conn
Total Insanity
(Rollin' Rock)
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The notorious Wildman's jittering zealotry comes over most emphatically during "Hard Knocks and Tough Rocks," though it certainly rages elsewhere. All one need know about the full-steam band that tears the nighttime a new ashtray is that it includes Ray Campi.
"I'm gonna kick those big walls down!"
Recommended: "Goin' Back to Boston Town," "Mighty Mighty Dora," "Bonnie," "I Wanna Hold You," "It Shouldn't Happen," "Hard Knocks and Tough Rocks," "Ramblin' Ray"
Videos: "Goin' Back to Boston Town" "Mighty Mighty Dora" "Hard Knocks and Tough Rocks"
The Brains
An amphetaminized and kalaidoscopic corkscrew updating of sailor Sinatra and mates On the Town, awash in intoxicants and with frenzied Psycho sans brakes.
Video: "One More Time"
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Paul Ansell and Smokestack Lightnin'
Between Paul's grained drawl and the robust encouragement of Nuremberg roots-mavens SL -- particularly guitarists Axel Brückner and André Langer -- a pair of hand-tooled ditties kick like home folks in high cotton.
Videos: "Stuck in a Rut" "Rawhide" (Yes, the beloved TV theme.)
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