Neighborhood
"Pride Song" single
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Righteous Oi! exultance hurtles past, its aggression fired by stormers who thoroughly love their kick-ass free living in the way only untamed youths can. They don't give a fuck about anyone's rules.
"Stomping with the boots, we're dancing all night long / Grab your fuckin' beer, no pressure our life! Just enjoy our life and always be proud! / Let's go pogo!"
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Outer Space
Nightwork
(Bad Billy Records)
As warfare tears at their Ukrainian homeland, Psychobillies stride forth and thrust middle fingers in the mug of devastation. This rebellion is real. When the moon ascends, and with jaws high and iron-eyes squinted, they rip from instruments headlong vitality that avows defiance.
Recommended: "Nichna robota," "Ibash," "Ni," "Ne khochesh," "Vona ne Mozhe," "Pokynute misto," "Kazhany," "Smutok," "Zalyshaieshsia tut"
Video: "Pokynute misto" (live)
Ends In Tragedy
"Don't Remember Me" single
(You Will Thank Us Later)
Just when it seems furious cacophony jacked-up on some uncharted amphetemine is arched to vault from the precipice -- declarations scattershot like razory confetti -- its rampage is incised by soloing of jagged urgency.
Investigation turned up this recording was originally put to tape in 2011. The rager so throttling the fretboard was a pre-Koffin Kats "EZ" Ian Jarrell. Newly unleashed, the song portrays a gang spewing promise.
Back In the Day, 2004
Reverend Horton Heat
Revival
(Yep Roc)
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With each concert or marketed recording, Jim Heath looses flash-fluttering murmurations of licks rooted in tradition but stunning in Today raiment. His jocular lyricism and regular-guy exhortations extend hand-shaking familiarity. Top-drawer cohorts Jimbo Wallace and Scott Churilla marvel onlookers by not just equaling the Rev's neck-snapping pace, but doing so with heated distinction. The two have long merited acclaim for gymnastic exploits.
Reommended: "Happy Camper," "Revival," "Callin' In Twisted," "If It Ain't Got Rhythm," "New York City Girls," "Someone In Heaven," "Party Mad," "Goin' Back Home"
Video: "The Happy Camper"
Robert Gordon, Link Wray & the Wildcats
Live At Rockpalast 1978
(Made In Germany Music)
Straight from the fridge: The audio transmission of this June 8, 1978 Rockpalast television broadcast was previously released by Growling Guitar as the second CD in its 2018 set, The Last Tour. The Voice and The Guitar were a dynamic pairing that jolted vintage Cat Spirit with the crisp animation demanded in the boisterous seventies. Joining them were phenomenal bassist/backing singer Rob Stoner and ace drummer Anton Fig. The rock-ribbed foursome's world-spanning preeminence was such that one speculates countless combos today echo their lessons.
Video: "Rock Therapy," "The Way I Walk," "Mystery Train," "Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track)," "I Sure Miss You" (Rockpalast broadcast)
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The Tony Slug Experiece
s/t
(Suburban Records/Wap Shoo Wop Records/Alternative Tentacles)
Damnable throat cancer claimed beloved Amsterdam stage-stalker Tony in 2023. Through years of studio-toil and road-doggery with various assemblages on the international underground circuit, he had amassed a miniature army of like-outlooked confederates who today harbor admiring recollections.
A New Noise memorium observed: "Shortly before Slug's illness, he was working on The Tony Slug Experience, his first solo album of 12 new songs, with a slew of friends making contributions..."
Too numerous for cataloging here are the fellow bomb-throwers who so terrorized studio technology. Their number counts among stalwarts Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra, Happy Tom of Turbonegro, Poison Idea's Jerry A., Nicke Andersson of the Hellacopters, and more. That should by itself be sufficient to enflame purchaser zeal.
Common throughout are Tony's wily songcraft-pen, destruction-chording, and careening treble squawkings of calamitous caliber. Indeed, the entirety rages spectacularly.
(Note: The limited supply of 12" vinyl incarnations was immediately exhausted. Fortunately, The Tony Slug Experience can still be got in digital aspect.)
Recommended: "Road Goat," "If I Make the Gates," "I'll Never Forget," "Wreckerball," "(Living On) Borrowed Time," "Spy Sattelite," "Puppet Smut," "Loaded"
Video: "If I Make the Gates"
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The Brains
The Monster Within
(Cleopatra)
Cleopatra now offers The Brains's 2013 The Monster Within, sporting fresh cover illustration, in both red vinyl and compact disc incarnations. (A digital streaming version can also be secured.) In the Montreal trio's bubbling admixture, Punk swerve and onrushing Psychobilly coalesce. Freefall-into-madness constructions incorporate textural passages so profound as to deeply imprint. That songs rip roadway despite architectural complexity indicates acuity exercises songcraft discretion.
Recommended: "The Monster Within," "Give It All," "Misery," "The Damned," "Bleed," "Stay Back," "Electric Shock," "Rest In Pieces," "Cucaracha In Leather," "Devil In Disguise," "Rolling Down"
Video: "Misery"
