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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

One Night Stand

Trash EP

(Inconsapevole Records)

To exit the club whisting these frantically tuneful missiles, you'd have to somehow jam amphetemines into your lips. And if some junk-works experimenter found a way to put this hardcore in a syringe, they'd richocet erratically for about two minutes, before littering the room with happy fleshly bits.

Recommended: "Wrinkled Eyes," "Fear of the Dark (shirt)," "Sweet Lies, Rotten Truth," "From Son to Father," "Again"

Videos: "Wrinkled Eyes" "From Son to Father"

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Sunday, June 21, 2026

Red-Hot Dynamos

They may cruise Italian strade, but the RHDs purvey old-ways Nashville tunery with all the realness of Robert's regulars. And their digital shufflers are fine as frog hair. But as the numbers here presented illustrate, it's high time a physical, full-length record could be grabbed from shelves. And I mean everywhere.

Videos: "Moonshiner's Run" "Excuse Me"

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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

The Monokids

Video "My Baby Left Me"

Sunday, March 1, 2026

The Monokids

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(Self-issued)

Italy's Monokids are the whole package: a second skin, cat-style look; Neo-Rockabilly (plus sundry other bents) so tight and energetically tossed out that neophyte competitors likely grind molars enviously; and such apparent affection for the bop that drives cats and gators into lava-blooded paroxysms, that sound systems tremble at resultant roar.

Recommended: "Always Do the Bop," "Real Gone Daddy," "40 Days in a County Jail," "The Last Goodbye," "My Blues," "Blazing"

Videos: "Always Do the Bop" "Real Gone Daddy" (clip) "40 Days in a County Jail" (clip)

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Robert Gordon and the Di Maggio Connection

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(New Shot Records)

Never again will there ring out a voice so resonant, capacious, and packed with the joys of gut-level Rock'n'Roll, as was the late Robert's. His tones filled every hall. Name any storied veteran you care to, and RG - having long ago internalized their's and fellows' iconic persuasions, imbuing them with marvelous personal aspect - merits placement in identical lofty rank.

Among axe wielders with whom he crafted swing-from-rafters boppery through shook-up decades were Link Wray, Chris Spedding, and Danny Gatton. Royalty, all. Guitars were their sceptres.

Just as Robert belongs in a relief with past masters, so Italian Marco Di Maggio could cut heads with storied predecessors. The man is that wickedly gifted, as all who've relished his own years' worth of recordings can jump up and testify. (It seems likely Marco never fudged a treble note in all his born days.)

Live album Robert Gordon and the DiMaggio Connection was recorded in 2006, at Crallo in Scandiano, Italy. Players assembled take each curve on two wheels. In addition to Marco, Connection associates included bassman Matteo Giannetti and drummer Marco Barsanti. A pair more suited to killer goneness simply doesn't draw oxygen.

No stylistic deviations appear on the songlist, which is entirely okay. Robert chose only the finest material. And one never tires of hearing his booming interpretations. Greater love for finned fracture hath no cat. Doubtlessly, his spirited exhortations cleaved pomps in back rows.

Let's all spill a bit of PBR.

Recommended: "The Way I Walk" "Lover Boy," "Look Who's Blue," "The Worryin' Kind," "Hello Walls," "Sea of Heartbreak," "I Just Found Out," "Drivin' Wheel," "Rockbilly Boogie," "Don't Be Cruel"

No videos from this gig were available, so here are others featuring Robert and Marco Di Maggio: "The Way I Walk" "Lover Boy" "I Just Found Out" "Drivin' Wheel" "Rock Billy Boogie"

Little Til and the Gangbusters

In a Peculiar Way

(Rocketman Records)

Attilio Malambri, aka "Little Til," responded to a recent Facebook user's lament that seemingly few 20-somethings presently populate the sideburn sect. 25 year-old Little Til - now pursuing novel adventures in Parisian climes - threw in his own perspective. He noted that at festival performances with band The Gangbusters, he's observed numerous under-30s deploying crazy feet. (Still, Attilio did concede musicians of draft age seldom embrace cool cat soundings.)

Below is consideration of Little Til and the Gangbusters' 2024 release, In a Peculiar Way:

It was with sharp discernment that Italy's Attilio Malambri selected which standards to revisit. Featured songs are cream, and these reinterpretations crackle as if the material were newly minted. In ballads, Little Til's urbanity enjoys bolstering by grand harmonies. And when stormers roll out, he pounds daylights out of ivories and exhorts insistently in fevered manner. At every turn, the formidable Gangbusters tear it up without looking back. Rocking is their business, as the Treniers once declared, and the band's virtues cannot be extolled too loudly.

Recommended: "Fools Fall In Love," "Money (That's What I Want)," "Lonely Weekends," "Lovin' Up a Storm," "Rockin' My Life Away"

Video: "Lonely Weekends"

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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

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"

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Freddy Velas and the Silvertones

"Oh Rose Marie" single

(Vintjärn Records)

The present scribe reserves real estate in his heart for Doo Wop, the street-corner harmonizing that, in its halcyon phase, transported quotidian quartets to deserved renown. Italian Freddy Velas and pitch-perfect amicos are exactly the crew required to make present-day idioms draw back, that a vocal mode with enduring attraction can assume center spot. Their renderings are adroitness for the ears, populated by spot-on tones of pearly glow.

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