Charlie Hightone and the Rock-Its 

If any reticence was mistakenly in attendence at the last Rockabilly Rave, it tore for the exit when this five-alarm conviction deluged off the stage. 

Video: "Dead End Track" (live at Rockabilly Rave 2026))

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13 Bats

Perhaps titled as a nod to 13 Cats, Madrid harshmasters pour all nth degree adrenaline asurge within them into 1:47 of when-whip-comes-down onrush.

Video: "Se Altera en Consulta"

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Automatic Lovers

s/t   12" vinyl and digital

(Wap Shoo Wap Records / FOLC Records)

Spring 1976: I tore shrink-wrap from the Ramones' world-rending debut Sire LP. And I didn't lift stylus from vinyl (except to flip the platter) until concluding "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World's" 2:09 had totally ebbed into ether.

Madrid's Automatic Lovers' maiden waxing recalls that pivotal episode. Not that the group is of identical rank - so, what band could claim that glue-sniffing distinction? - but because their record is equally solid. No tracks merit skipping.

Songs are grabbed up, shaken thoroughly, and booted into some future week. All are magnetic exercises in Punkishly frenzied, glad-to-be-young-and-kicking Rock'n'Roll, that is ardent enough to include guitar ferality amidst confederate raging, and sufficiently astute to maintain compositional brevity. 

1976 hype was that the debuting Ramones had blown out Plaza Sound Studios' speakers. I would not be flabbergasted to learn such had also been the case, here.

Recommended: "Wasting Time," "High Degree," "Pushin Too Hard," "Long Gone," "Out of Control," "Hardbeat," "WGTEYEO," "Shoot at Me," "What Do I Know," "Take My Hand," "Twist and Die"

Videos: "Wasting Time"   "Out of Control" (live)   "Pushin' Too Hard"   

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Chingo Kids

"Uno foto en blanco y negro"   digital single

(Bartolini Records)

Likely the only Madrid Punk trio whose name is also that of an unrelated tykes-attire concern. Volleyed in scant minutes is a projectile mix of dynamic tension and clean vocals that skim atop buzzsaw advances. Clever and measured change-ups evolve mid-song, before streamlined, 78 rpm progress resumes. Those in the way face flattening.

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