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Saturday, December 22, 2018

Rocket J and the 88s
Rocket Baby (self)




A stentorian, skirt-snapping rock'n'roll chanteuse who lights up everything with electric vivacity. Her nervy rockabilly has as its sole ambition a zoom star-ward with sparks shooting and good feelings busting out all over. 

Recommended: "Rocket Baby," "It's the Beat" 

Video: "Rocket Baby"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m21ksVw2B8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0MUeiLA1Ckh92vPQzPss5Q2VCzM6qUprfGMyjWas3dfR23F6_aQjv-I8M


http://www.rocketjandthe88s.com/

https://www.facebook.com/rocketj88/

https://rocketjthe88s.bandcamp.com/album/rocket-baby




Death By Rodeo
Rock n Roll Bones (self)



Among the cleverest and most brawnily efficacious trios to stomp stages in recent nights, Death By Rodeo is uninhibited in its headlong pursuit of dynamic fun across genre demarcations that hem lessers.

Recommended: "Rock n Roll Bones," "Tight Lines," "Don't Breathe," "Fool To Care," "All That I Know," "I'm Gone," "To Love - Not Love"

Video: "Rock n Roll Bones"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kude0OeCRY


https://www.facebook.com/deathbyrodeo/

https://www.reverbnation.com/deathbyrodeo?fbclid=IwAR02uSuy7cRkqT16pADGqE-wJLju4RQg3P7RDA27u9N2TqeWpggskR1nJeA


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/deathbyrodeo3

https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Roll-Bones-Death-Rodeo/dp/B07LFR5Z94/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1545502409&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=death+by+rodeo




Seven Mile Lane
s/t (self)



When sounds all around seems superfluous and ostentatious, count on Punk to crash through the door, fire up the rude amps, and remind wonderfully that this whole rock'n'roll business is about kicking out the jams economically and without cares.

Recommended: "Tomorrow Never Comes," "Tension and the Blight," "I'm Out," "Shake and Shiver" 

Video: "Shake and Shiver"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9op0Vq3dRQU


https://www.facebook.com/SevenMileLaneSalem/

https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/sevenmilelane2




Piedmont Four
Back To the Bars (self)



Seems like the blues has been always around, like it came up from the soil and is by now so much a part of common humanity that its unvarnished essence no more needs announcement than does anyone on the family tree. And impeccably crafted iterations such as this here portend familiarity into perpetuity.

Recommended: "Rip It Up," "Daddy Was a Preacher," "It's All Going To Pot," "Diggin' My Potatoes," "Crosscut Saw," "Midnight Shift"

Video: "Daddy Was a Preacher"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCHBRXQWJ4c


https://www.facebook.com/piedmontfour/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARBsRS-t53X7aHvEszu05GqJMXDDb-bhew6ppQZk6CtwR0wqFuqjJ1gQ0l_MTdXjeWqwFU8tN4p0cI2L


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/piedmontfour2




Saturday, December 8, 2018

Kings of Nuthin'
Get Wrecked with... (Crazy Love)
7 inch



4-track, 1999 demo that spawned a reeling and swiping rhythm and blues, destroy-the-joint legend still tipped in hip circles. Seed aburst, available in variously colored vinyl.

Recommended: "Let It Burn," "Had Enough," "Boston Bound," "

Video: "Boston Bound" (live 2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDs8lx_kOiQ



https://www.facebook.com/The-Kings-of-Nuthin-154946820364/


https://www.crazyloverecords.de/news/5050/kings-of-nuthin-get-wrecked-with-7-ep-neon-yellow




The Rocket Dogz
Bad Blood 
(PHR Records)




The combination stopwatch/dreamcatcher/police blotter has yet to be invented, that could gauge this mayhem-in-a-blur disc's gale-force merits. 

Recommended: "Bad Blood," "Cemetery Walk," "It's Not You," "Slaves of the Darkness," "Anymore," "Woke Up In the Morgue"

Video: "Bad Blood"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XVd4FzpkI&list=OLAK5uy_lEzipBggrulNSJHueYs8XU4hLfzH50m7I&index=1


https://www.facebook.com/therocketdogz/



https://phr.cz/rocket-dogz-bad-blood/

https://papagajuvhlasatelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bad-blood






The Elixirs
Sin Alley (self)



Neo-rockabilly's promise of stomp-down feverishness mindful of ways things once were, in run-loose realization. Equilibrium eruptive. 

Recommended: "Know Remorse," "Knockin'," "Hard To Bite Your Tongue," "Killer Custodian," "Wake Up," "Hot Day," "Good Ain't Good"

Video: "Know Remorse"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1heL1aj2Og


http://www.theelixirs.com/Home_Page.php

https://www.facebook.com/the.elixirs.music/

https://elixirs.bandcamp.com/


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/theelixirs2

https://www.amazon.com/Sin-Alley-Explicit-Elixirs/dp/B07CLRFKYS




Blood of Android
Sangue de Androide / 
Android Blood (self)




Whatever this mysterion combo's true identity, it's invisible on the internet. No pages, no video. But alurk-in-the-shadows existence is consonant with this binding, instrumental surreality in which surf, punk, and psycho go full Jet Boy amongst portentous star glow while teen dancers shimmy across the universe.

Recommended: "Sangue de Androide," "Bigode de Torresmo,' "Agua de Joelho de Dedo," "Luiza Vendo Visoes," "Sabrina? Nao Conheco," "Abridor de Costelas"


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/sanguedeandroide



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FORMER staff writer for Rockabilly and Pin Up America magazines. FREELANCE credits include Daily Caller, American Thinker, Free Republic, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Independent Political Report, USA Today, Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Waterloo Courier, Cedar Falls Times, Marshalltown Times Republican, Cincinnati.com, IndyStar, Arizona Republic, No Depression, Goldmine, Blue Suede News, Rock and Rap Confidential, Crackerjack, Blues News, Wrecking Pit, Punk Globe, Prairie Sun, Music and Sound Output, BAM, New Music, and 1980s NYC fanzines Shake, Rattle, and Roll, Rebel Rouser, and Off the Wall. AUTHOR: Shake, Rattle and Rocket!, Ghost Saucers in the Sky!, Stratosphere Boogieman!, Flesh Made Music, That a Man Can Again Stand Up: American spirit vs, sedition during the incipient Trump Revolution, and Ideas Afoot: Political observations, social commentary, and media analyses. WORKED as 2004 Iowa coordinator for Ralph Nader independent presidential campaign; co-founded Iowa Green Party, also served as statewide media coordinator; press coordinator, 2002 Jay Robinson (Green) IA gubernatorial effort. Wrote extensively re Trump campaign..