Brad Marino

Agent of Chaos

(Spaghetty Town Records/Beluga/Ghost Highway Recordings)

Classic Rock'n'Roll fashionings with a bit of an edge, throughout which elates Power Pop hookery that instills warm sensations. Should requests for beaming music with serious teeth ring out - and they so often do - Brad and compadres will meet the demand. See, brightly colorful and anthemic merriment is their specialty.

Recommended: "Blowing Smoke," "Voodoo," "Murder and Violence," "Calling Your Bluff," "Lost Without You," "Devil May Care," "Sick of You," "Reason or Rhyme," "Make This Last"

Videos: "Voodoo"   "Murder and Violence"   "Calling Your Bluff"   "Devil May Care"   "

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Angela Tini

Here Comes Trouble

(Rum Bar Records)

Downtown streets must have been calm; all the cool cats were makin' the studio scene to raise up this bonfire.

Their swingalong-matches rank included Carl Sonny Leland (piano/organ/production/arranger), Deke Dickerson (bass/sax/backing voice), Tommy Harkenreider (guitar), Zander Griffith (upright and electric basses), and Josh Collazo (drums). The ace Dynaflos happened by, too, and flipped tops on their own Ronsons.

Local fire-fighting boys were on standby.

Star Miss Angela wove her elegant witchcraft betwixt all the motivatin' Jazz and Rhythm & Blues airs. Hers is a magnificent fashion that punches across the cool-to-hot spectrum, with smoky glamour whispers, mellifluous sailings, and Ruth Brown-caliber beltings that could scorch holes through cement-brick walls.

Asbestos alligators are presently opening their wallets.

Recommended: "Can't Stop Me," "Too Many Secrets," "Honey Never Spoils," "Forty Cups of Coffee," "Tout Doucement," "Every Night," "Turn Me Loose," "Here Comes Trouble," "Don't Let Me Down," "Never No More," "Good Thing," "Confess," "Not Lonely for You"

Videos: "Can't Stop Me,"   "Too Many Secrets"   "Tout Doucement"   "Here Comes Trouble"

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Zombina and the Skeletones

In Sinistereo

(9x9 Records)

Last month, guitarist/singer Doc Horror explained to Joyzine: "The impetus behind recording Zombina and the Skeletones' In Sinistereo in the first place was the enormous backlog of unused songs that we’d amassed over the years. Old demos that we loved and always intended to eventually flesh out, but would get passed-over every time we would start recording a new record…"

Though researchers have repeatedly fed these tracks through arcane computerized processes, they remain baffled as to why any were ever discounted. A Horror Punk/Psychobilly graft with Power Pop intuitions, majestic countenance, and arched eyebrows throws back its ebony cape. Mysteriously abandoned songs' compilation in this "quadrilogy" (combined are all tracks from four previous In Sinistereo EPs) totals positive product.

Though dire atmospherics hang like cobwebs, and despite darkness, airs dance entrancingly. Fetching melodies unfurl in spectacle, unleashing mesmeric mistiness whose capacities derive from synth/monster beat/guitar aggressions channeled by calculation. Vocals at once winsome and chilling sound sirens bewitching. And, a smirk playing about his mouth, Baron Von Saxophone sidles from hidden passages' cover.

Rather than squandering energies with laboratory thingamajigs, the eggheads should have shuttered windows and unearthed any Maila Nurmi broadcast.

Recommended: "(All I Wanna Do is) Decompose (with You)," "Phantom with the X-Ray Mind," "I Hate Humans," "Whatever You Do, Don't Fall in Love," "Kill!!!," "Ramon," "The Crawling Love," "The Stakeout," "Stalkin'"

Videos: "Phantom with the X-Ray Mind"   "I Hate Humans"   "Kill!!!"   "The Stakeout"

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