Neal Smith
Killsmith Halloween 
(Neal Smith Music / Kachina Records)

1970s classic rock has a wonderful secret: The riff-heavy monster-style that, as perpetrated eminently in shell-shocked arenas by Smith's Alice Cooper Group, remains today as immediate, loudly formidable, and jaw-high defiant as when pre-Watergate RMN first broached Chinese shores.

The beat. The hooks. The snarl.

Recommended: "Strychnine," "Squeeze Like a Python," "The Killsmith Overture," "Dynasty of Darkness," "Monsters In the Attic," "Die For the Night," "Pandemonium," "How Do You Bleed"

Video "Strychnine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaE_wG0M4o0&index=10&list=OLAK5uy_kvBseEiQgHMM0nCI6NitHQmpXV0EUAWoM


http://nealsmithrocks.com/

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

Walter Lure and the Waldos
Wacka Lacka Loom Bop a Loom Bop Boo
(Cleopatra Records)

Coolness that gives no fucks announces itself with swagger in early days. Sometimes, it is so beyond the planet it implodes. But once in a lucky while, it hangs around to tell of a better life possible.

And when it gets its meat-hooks on an instrument, it's every man for himself.

Recommended: "Crazy Kids," "Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day?," "You Talk Too Much," "Bye Bye Baby," "Damn Your Soul," "She Doesn't Love You Anymore," "Lazy Day," "Wham Bam Boo," "Little Black Book"

Video: "Crazy Kids"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU1o3cC2RRU&index=1&list=PL4bD5PX2R6ALhCSXNkPShHh6jtVFItsDc



https://www.facebook.com/theWALDOS/


https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/walter-lure-the-waldos-wacka-lacka-boom-bop-a-loom-bam-boo-cd/

https://www.amazon.com/Wacka-Lacka-Boom-Bop-Loom/dp/B07DKWJWZS

(photo credit: Alan Rand)

Hitmen DTK
Hitmen Kill Elvis 
(Alchemy Music Group)

It's acknowledged going in that no one can equal The King. But these songs are of imperial class, far too clever and engaging to let languish. Hitmen DTK punch them up with such confident, blast-storm forcefulness that to thrill to them so recast is to fall hard all over again.

Recommended: "Burning Love," "Return To Sender," "Can't Help Falling In Love," "Come On Everybody," "Edge of Reality"

Video: "Burning Love"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjaF1rVlMus&list=PL2kjuqwLAq_Bfl1hAVmrNNNMxc5Fmjaz2&index=1



https://www.facebook.com/johnnykannis

https://www.facebook.com/zeusentertainmentgroup/


https://www.amazon.com/Hitmen-Kill-Elvis-DTK/dp/B07GBNP7PJ

The Meteors
Fuck the Bootleggers Vol. 1 + 2 
(Mutant Rock Records)

The legend of P. Paul Fenech and his revolving company of coffin-copping accomplices has, over decades of hopped up and tricked out debauchery, stormed at hyper speed through plateaus unspeakable. Here stalks the merrily ghastly prototype, the winkingly dreadful lodestone revered by wreckers of diseased essences.

Recommended: "Maniac Rockers From Hell," "Shout So Loud (I'm Gonna Wake Up the Dead)," "I Don't Worry About It," "Graveyard Stomp," "Mutant Rock," "Ex-men Boogie," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Rockabilly Psychosis," "Chainsaw Boogie," "Wreckin' Crew," "Rhythm of the Bell"

Videos: "Shout So Loud (I'm Gonna Wake Up the Dead)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cissZEiYW1g
"Ex-Men Boogie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNuu1ixpmHw


http://www.mutantrockrecords.com/

https://www.facebook.com/MutantRockRecords/
https://www.facebook.com/themeteorsofficial/

Gene Crazed and the Greasy Stranglers
It! (Nervous Records)

 A spare and rough-edged disc that shines equally strongly in its atmospheric instrumental moments. Bounding truculence that kicks its black boots at reserve.

 Recommended: "I Stretch, You Lick," "Rockabilly Rebel (Maniac On the Loose),"  "It," "Wild Guitar," "The Witch," "Necro Baby," "Munsters Theme"

Video: "I Stretch and You Lick"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMaDs9pMrwY&list=PLG62Dbb8aSzBanYiPErPHQ3f4XeQRviXk&index=4


https://www.facebook.com/asmodeo.summers

http://www.nervous.co.uk/gene_crazed.html


https://www.amazon.com/Explicit-Gene-Crazed-Greasy-Stranglers/dp/B07B1VMJBX

The Unkool Hillbillies
One More Time! (self)

These sort of bouncy skins, sax honks, and rippling ivories can be located on thick black 1950s King vinyl from legends like Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris, and Bullmoose Jackson. So can the jump blues guitar dash and swaggering declamations. But the song constructions boast hooks of distinction, and direct the jive down rich roads.

Recommended: "You're the One," "One More Time (Take 1)," "Call Me Up," "Another Day, Another Lie," "Spend Some Time With Me," "I Ain't Mad At You," "Everlasting Love Blues," "Flottakarlek," "Aldrig Ska Jag Gamma"

Video: "You're the One" (live, feat, Karin Johansson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D9L7zX_gdM&list=PLCD440795FD922B41&index=12&t=0s


http://www.unkool.se/index2.html

https://www.facebook.com/unkool.hillbillies/


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/theunkoolhillbillies5

The Limit Club
Kid Bitchin'
(Phantom Cat Records)

The Limit Club's sparkplug players turn up tilted fun from psycho's stormy singalong side. Knockabout abandon in which all can serve with off-kilter devotion.

Recommended: "The Ballad of Kid Bitchin'," "One Minute," "Only a Lad," "It's Not Me," "Wheel of Self Destruction," "Step Into the Fear"

Video: "The Ballad of Kid Bitchin;"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmrGh1PMSHs&index=2&list=PLkEIr1tZXRelEPkCQj6YRGWvrSDRFf7rY&t=0s


http://www.limitclub.com/

https://www.facebook.com/thelimitclub/


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/thelimitclub4