The Violent Hour
Whatta ya do with this Bad-Girls Gone Wild metallic megatonnage? Buy it, spin it, and love it all the way into a videopathic maelstrom.
Video: "Screenager"
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Danny Dean Anti-s up
"I have my first Anti rehearsal this Friday," he noted, referring to a reconstitution of that 1980s Punk agit-cell. "As soon as I get a steady lineup, I'm gonna start doing shows in the near future. I'll keep you posted. The Punk scene is exploding out here in Nashville believe it or not -- bigger than the Rockabilly scene."
As if its rocketship savagery weren't enough, the original Anti juggernaut also distinguished itself in the region's storied shambolic mileau (which had also produced the Circle Jerks and Black Flag), by bannering broadsides against government corruption and Fake News lies, as well as by protesting warfare and urging world peace.
Danny's fresh adventuring via the group with which he rose to salad days-celebration was a topic over which the singer/songwriter / guitarist rightly enthused.
First, though, memories came gushing.
"Back in the late '70s and early '80s we had KROQ with Rodney on the Rock and we had Tim Yohan with Maximum Rock 'n' Roll radio, and a few other stations that were smaller that promoted the new music that the mainstream wouldn't play."
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Back to now: "Soon to be releasing next year an Anti anniversary vinyl record. I took 23 of the early '80s recordings and put it on one vinyl record. It's at mastering right now, and the artwork is being put together. It's coming out on Radiation Records.
"Hopefully, also going to release an anniversary album for the band Easter that I had. That's also at mastering, and will come out on vinyl. I'm using old photos and revamping that record that might be some pictures of Mike Ness on the cover when he was in the band."
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"When the Easter album came out in 1987 we were very unhappy with it," Danny lamented. "We always wanted to go back and revamp it when we got some money and time, but we never did. We got an extremely low budget from the label to do the album, so we had to rush through everything. We were very embarrassed.
"Now the record sounds really good, after all these years. A new album design would help a lot."
How that initial 2026 Anti rehearsal went is not known. But one thing we can all confidently wager upon is that Danny Dean -- whether assuming Punk stance or swinging Rockabilly persona -- still has miles and miles of musical defiance to go before he sleeps. If ever.
Kyle LaLone
Make My Own Way
(Kyle LaLone Music)
The fact that the original material compiled strongly recalls the Tom Petty etc average-Joe Rock that once poured from radios and resounded in arenas illustrates Kyle's realness. Why? Because the former session player's determination to create in a manner no longer of overwhelming mainstream popularity means he honestly means what he's creating, and feels significant oneness with it; resultantly, listeners, too, feel it and their appreciation redoubles. (Plus, profundity packaged with intelligent, layered compositions in the key of blue-jeaned Saturday nights in middle America is of evergreen attractiveness.)
Recommended: "Make My Own Way," "New Year's Eve," "Falling in the Forest," "A Change is Coming," "Won't Take This Lying Down," "Stand Back Up," "Grateful"
Videos: "Make My Own Way" (live) "A Change is Coming" (live) "Grateful"
Dead City
Out on Bail EP
(Self-issued)
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Punch up these dense bombardments. The sardonicism enjoyed from this ripsaw assault unit angrily accents harsh existence on the sidelines. Shoved away, they became a community. (Kind of a graffitied Australia.) Fuck everybody on the outside.
Recommended: "Out on Bail," "Cut Down to Size," "Skidrow Creep"
Video: "Out on Bail" (live at Riff Audio)
Dogface Bastards
s/t
(Self-issued)
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As invigoratingly defiant as rebellion with the cause of Oi! sounds on record, total immersion in the animal comes only for those launching themselves into the snarling, participatory beast; everywhere, bodies fly, tumble, and sprawl, all to tunes blasted by mohawked warriors. L.A.'s Dogface Bastards urge on circle-dance mayhem in wee hours.
None of the foregoing was meant to dissuade disc purchasers. To the contrary, subjecting eardrums to the raucousness the Dogfaced ones shovel so violently is a fine first step toward the maelstrom.
Recommended: "Dogbite," "Dog Eat Dog," "New Voice of Oi!," "Friday Night," "Do or Bust," "Barking Dogs Don't Bite"
Videos: "Dog Eat Dog" / "New Voice of Oi!" / etc (live) "Barking Dogs Don't Bite"
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Karling and the Kadavers
Curse on Me EP
(Self-issued)
Title platter-gash races like a hearse up sideways on two wheels. Frantic, grim, and neck-snapping. Slap-bass prominent "Ruby" lopes, its cold tale of svelte vampirism cinematic in descriptiveness. (Somebody exhume Tura Satana and Al Adamson.) Slashing guitarwork is perpetrated by three practioners of villainy: Fuse, Watts, and Gator McMurder. (GM also wielded that mighty bass.) "The Worst of Me" concludes this dark endeavor, with Bermuda Schwartz hammering skins like they dared to look at him funny.
And Karling herself? She amazes with vocal cords that know no boundary and shake every note on the scale until it has Xs on its eyelids.
Recommended: "Curse on Me," "Ruby," "The Worst of Me"
Videos: "Curse on Me" (official video) "Ruby" "The Worst of Me"
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Rezurex
It's wholly likely that fleshy hulls devoid of life-spark clawed up through sod to perform a morbid ballet when this rang through chilly blackness.
From 2006 Fiendforce debut Beyond the Grave, now remastered and remixed.
Video: "Black Rose"
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OP ED
E.P. by OP ED
(Self-issued)
All thunderslaps are concise and race furiously, tuneful architecture stabbing gray matter.
Recommended: "Poetry About Narcotics," "Inept Pimps," "Subordinate," "Death Wish"
Video: live August 2025 (Four songs, two from above EP)
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Magic Sands
Limón y Agua
(Hi-Tide Recordings)
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Many travel agents, posters of exotic destinations adorning office walls, could doubtlessly convey you to Kona, Hawai'i's Magic Sands, reputedly the world's most dangerous beach. (Riptides, shorebreak, and all.) But know that the present Los Angelino combo, sharing that and-still they-come tourist-spot's name, can do so faster and cheaper. Hawai'i's ancient charms roll forth in wonderment, as strings are plucked and strummed with a dignity that is all the more intriguing for its mum knowingness. Percussions of island, exotica, and Latin characters induce pleasing physical inclinations. August ambience is further embellished by piano-key judiciousness.
Sun disappears far across blue vastness, as ti leaf-wrapped pigs roast beneath earth in kālua enterprise. Mesmeric airs waft through evening air, and hula voluptuousness undulates.
Hi-Tide has specified a June 26 release date. Orange and green vinyl versions in gatefold jackets, with collectable obi strips, will be marketed in 200-unit limited edition.
What travel agent could offer all that?
Recommended: "Hawai'i Kai," "Vaquero," "Night in the Medina," "Mahina," "Back Door," "Hawai'i Kai," "Limón y Agua," "Baja Norte"
Videos: "Hawai'i Kai" "Vaquero" "Payout" "Mahina"
Lil' Mo & the Dynaflos
Fronted by a siren with angelic tones capacity, a trio of doo-woppers, straight from beneath some Bop Street lamp post, urge tender confederacy. Players with PHDs in hepness spin understated merriment - with saxophone piquancy - ensuring embrace.
Video: "Let's Fall in Love"
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Pat Todd & the Rankoutsiders
A One-Sided Affair one-sided, six-song, 12" clear vinyl
(Ghost Highway Recordings)
Crank stereo volume to utmost reaches. "Classical, 1970s-type Hard Rock" might be the assessment offered by someone ignorant of the music's evergreen bounty. Of course, guitar-powered tunes featuring rocket-fueled rhythm sections and too-devastational-to-ignore vocal bombardments give absolutely zero damns about any calendar that Hallmark might roll out. Wild don't age. Those wise enough to search out this disc will thrill to a succession of tunes whose muscles ripple, and which are greatly more planet-splittingly powerful than the insipid music product churned by faceless production gadgetry. Being alive kicks ass!
Recommended: "Mercy," "If Love is Outta Style," "Like Trash on the Ground," "Hey 2 Face"
Videos: "Mercy" "Like Trash on the Ground" "Hey 2 Face"
Kit Major
"Not as Witty as I Used to Be" single
(Futureless)
London sparkplug Kit not only draws influence from the safety-pinned Class of '77 and its successive roustabouts - her 'wanna make somethin' of it?' attitude and full-throated declarations qualify her as a member in good slouching, herself. At her back are electrified agitators, themselves of wicked potency. Numbered among them are AJ Peacox (guitar), Kamber Fishbein (bass), and Tom Fitzgibbon (drums). With forces combined, they crusade as a juggernaut of slashing gusto. "Not as Witty" was culled from forthcoming EP Miss Ego, scheduled for June 12 issuance.
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Crown City Bombers
"Toxic Town" single
(Self-issued)
With matter-of-fact terseness, Bombers' boss man Dave Bertiz relates a dark-truth tale: "Hey little girl gettin' off the bus, you're gonna be a star / You got strung out, you lost your job, well now you won't go far. Hey everybody gather 'round / It's showtime in this Toxic Town." Chugging rockbop makes common cause with his somberness, and is entirely content to monger its mesmerism as poised understatement. Albert Hammond's 1972 radio staple mourned identical dark-side-of-Hollywoodland realities, but lacked the razory soloing Dave deploys with head-turning consequence.
