Iago Banet

"Hillside Gardens"   single

(Star Galaxy Music)

Only days ago, this site carried coverage of the 10 year-anniversary re-release of the Boo-Hoos' (Iago's previous group) Lucky No. 7. Prepare to appreciate a stylistically distinct facet of the guitar cradler. Whereas his onetime combo tended toward roots-gened, get-off-the-couch turns, now stepping from behind curtain's privacy is more placid craftsmanship. Thoughtfully fingerstyled, acoustic instrumental technique daubs gracefully magisterial illustration. In tranquility, craft is allowed expansive exercise. 

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Cherry & the Sours

"Crocodile Smile"   "Eat You Up"   digital singles

(Melissa Jayne Hernandez)

These cuts are the product of in-action engagement - airy and aburst with hearty pluck. That circumstance endorses; it's where fun is often found. "Crocodile Smile's" feet barely touch pavement, so headlong is the Neo-Rockabilly tune's dash. One all but feels winds jetting past. Matters become markedly different, though, when "Eat You Up," steps forward: shades-drawn sultriness spreads teasingly, instruments pulsing passionate ambiance.

Videos: "Crocodile Smile"   "Eat You Up"

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The Hyperjax

Scars on the Horizon

(Wildest Card Records)

Johnny Ramone remarked that when bands changed, they usually got worse. The same adhere-to-the-original-formula belief lies entrenched in the Hyperjax's lava-steaming marrow. 

My first exposure to them arrived via their ferocious spot in 2001 documentary American Rumble (Raven Films / Ravenous Pictures). Some 25 years' passage seems as naught, when Scars on the Horizon barrels from speakers in sonic onslaught. 

As if the endurance of kicky calamitousness weren't sufficient good news, wise-guy wrecker songcraft that glares down from high shelf also thrusts fist airward. The titular stormer breaks free from chains, blood in bulging eyes. "The Way You Used to Roll" impresses as infectiousness looking for a movie to soundtrack. And "Ain't that a Kick in the Teeth" strops Deano's jape.

Johnny would surely have nodded approval.

Recommended: "Scars on the Horizon," "Stranded in Skelsmerdale," "Bad Luck Charm," "Damnation, Here We Go," "The Scapegoat," "The Way You Used to Roll," "Ain't That a Kick in the Teeth," "Just Passing Through"

Videos: "Scars on the Horizon" (Hot Frog Animations)   "Bad Luck Charm"   "The Way You Used to Roll"   "Ain't That a Kick in the Teeth"

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Boom! Boom! Deluxe

"Backseat Bingo"  single

(Self-issued)

Cha-cha rhythms folded into Americana rootsiness demand surrender. Before the mind's eye, hip-dipping, he-and-she pairings lock lidded eyes in dances d'amour. Memories are made of this.

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The Moggies

We Can Do It

(Self-issued)

Sitting before us is a 15-piece bucket of fracture. The Mantua, Italy outfit's combustibility was captured in live rehearsal, standup having been sacked in favor of its electric kin. Elders of the Pinky Lee era bewailed teenagers' Rock'n'Roll embrace. The Moggies - minds set on thrills, hearts pumping passions, and hands throttling tailfinned fortissimi - remind that those button-down naysayers succumbed in glorious downfall.

Recommended: "Rock'n'Roll You Steal My Soul," "Intro," "I Love Marshmallows," "My Phone," "Woman Keep Your Fingers Away from Me," "Maramama," "Elvis Come Back," "Squirrel Cereal Killer," "That's Rock"

Videos: "Rock'n'Roll You Steal My Soul"   "I Love Marshmallows"   "Elvis Come Back"   "That's Rock"

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The Boo-Hoos

Lucky No. 7

(Iago Banet)

2015 was the year in which Lucky No. 7 was first marketed; fortunately, an anniversary edition has breezed into shop bins. I'm speculating that jittercat personnel on this stage sported winged footwear, so fleet were their streamlined endeavors. Two at-the-hop stormers and another like pair are punctuated by a ballad suited to swaying, amorous couples in lights-dimmed, streamer-bedecked village halls. 

Recommended: "Come on Over," "Lying and Cheating," "Song for the Disappeared," "Bangin' on My Bedroom Door," "Lucky No. 7"

Videos: "Come on Over"   "Lying and Cheating"   "Lucky No. 7"

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Skinny McGee and the Handshakes

"Little Model A"   single

(Shawn A. Gravitt)

Thankfully absent are state-of-the-swindle studio tech artifices. This honest-to-God, spring-heeled bop was created entirely by flesh/blood/bone humans. Skinny and amigo Chris Bell devoted their skills to matching up finger-lickin', bare-chassis Country with a fanciful gasser yarn. Would serve handily as flip side of "Hot Rod Lincoln." (Maybe melancholic "Tell Laura I Love Her" could be next to drop down the spindle.)

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