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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Zulj
Resetiraj Civilizaciju 
(Monsterbilly)



Tom Joad looked at Johnny. "Wherever rude guitars are fighting, I'll be there. Wherever there's snarling, you'll see me. And wherever raw-boned punk challenges the world to a final rumble like it's never been challenged before, I'll be sporting the sideways grin of an outsider who's just crazy enough to grab for the impossible."

Recommended: "Sloboda?," "Drzava," "Restiraj Civilizaciju," "Uniforma Krvozednih," "Junk," "Istine su Lazi," "Probusi Balon"

Video: "Resetiraj Civilizaciju" (Live, Slovenian Kramp Fest, 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkWxJ1owLr4



https://www.facebook.com/%C5%BEulj-197444563984952/

https://zuljpunk.bandcamp.com/album/resetiraj-civilizaciju-2018


https://www.facebook.com/monsterbillyrecords/?modal=admin_todo_tour&notif_id=1550007904001241&notif_t=page_invite



V/A
Cajun Stomp
(Beast Records)



Before sterile computerized stuntery sucked all the humanity out of music made by breathing and feeling people, there were marvelous, fat-vinyl records cut in shoebox studios tucked away in rural regions where actual life was lived. 

Those weighty black discs deserve hearing today more than any cloying chart confection or faceless rap dismalness available. Yesterday's preserved examples hold inspirational reward for those wise enough to seek it. 

Recommended: "Coming Home" (Jay Stutes and All the Sugar Bee's),  "Come Back Little Girl" (Jay Stutes), "Sweet Thing" (Cleveland Crochet and His Band of Sugar Bee's), "Hound Dog Baby" (Cleveland Crochet and and His Band of Sugar Bee's), "Allons Rock and roll" (Lawrence Walker), "Two Step De Vieux Temps" (Rambling Aces), "Open the Door" (Adam Hebert and the Country Playboys), "Cajun Twist Le Tortillage" (The Cajun Trio), "Lemonade Song" (Nathan Abshire and His Pine Grove Boys)

Video: "Come Back Little Girl" (Jay Stutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRxp4PHfgA


http://beastrecords.free.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=274&Itemid=47




Jay Stutes


Saturday, February 9, 2019

Powersolo
"Backstab" b/w "Nedtur"
(Slovenly Recordings)



How delectable, to wake still drunk and scramble sideways through a stomping garage-blues surreality paved with mad-side witnessing.

Video: "Backstab"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHDfjCPxlgA


https://www.facebook.com/POWERSOLODK/

https://slovenly.bandcamp.com/album/powersolo-transfixing-motherfucker-ep


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/powersolo#






Delta 88
Firefly
(Western Star)



The melodies entrance with such bubble, and the affable drive is so engaging, that dropping the needle means committing to specialness.

Recommended: "Cherry Pie Until I Die," I Fell In Love On the Wall of Death," "Massachusetts Firefly," "Rockin' On a Sunny Afternoon," "Panther In the Night," "Return of the Girl With a Raygun," "Gonna Get Me a Motorcycle"

Firefly CD Promo Video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRBtKckRck


http://www.delta88.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/Delta88rockabilly/



https://western-star.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=41147&cur=USD



https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/firefly/1449752555

https://open.spotify.com/album/0DeWs52cdxzQ6QO29Ihr8x






Haney's Big House
Herding Cats
(Western Star)




Hot and cold iteration of ageless heptitude. To quote the Treniers: "It Rocks! It Rolls! It Swings! It Jumps! Man, it really moves!" Consider yourselves put wise.

Recommended: "Herding Cats," "Dawn Patrol," "Eyes Wide Open," "She Can't Keep Still," "Not Me," "Just In Time," "The Lurcher"

Video: "Herding Cats"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9xmLk4nDFg&list=PLbiDsVZ184Z_8Ao4dx0BtFqmTat2IZt8K&index=2&t=0s



https://www.haneysbighouse.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/haneysbighouse/

https://western-star.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=41059&cur=USD




https://www.amazon.com/Herding-Cats/dp/B07N5DQM6Q

https://open.spotify.com/album/0PIQ4PnUdls5iXesYGrL7T










Hellbilly Homicide
Devil's Music (self)



While this rock-ribbed psychobilly includes assumed gruesome depictions, it also slaps out so much fun and cleverness as to wreath mugs of the newly fallen in great big grins.

Recommended: "Prom Night Boogie," "I Killed a Man," "Hotrod Granny," "Whiskey and Cocaine," "Never Trust a Man In a Dress," "Girls Girls Girls"

Video: "Prom Night Boogie" (live, 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTDDR_ooewI



https://www.facebook.com/hellbillyhomicide/?ref=br_rs

https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/hellbillyhomicide?fbclid=IwAR1g6I_UaotvlPi-Q03LAnf2AjI1ZWjRnvVs96DdXszIdkfU-W1YWf_YUgg



https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Music-Explicit-Hellbilly-Homicide/dp/B07N818PNC/ref=sr_1_1?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1549659236&sr=1-1-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=Hellbilly+Homicide

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4U3CwuLOIoaWm18U6wCvEk

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




Thursday, February 7, 2019

Hot Rod Walt and 
the Psycho-Devilles
Rumble Road (self)



They first wrought hopped-up hillbilly years ago. Across 10 LPs, now, they've fine-tuned it into a midnight express about which good-natured twang wraps both arms and thoroughly digs the accelerated exhilarations. Floored in the name of Fun.

Recommended: "Ain't Got No Choice," "Breakdown," "Gasser 66," "Sex and Fire and Gasoline," "Ruby Ann," "Chrome Sidepipes and SS Cragars," "GITMO," "This Old Hat" 

Video: "Chrome Sidepipes and SS Cragars"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ReX0obV0U8


https://psychodevilles.com/home

https://www.facebook.com/Hot-Rod-Walt-and-the-Psycho-DeVilles-205701902776021/







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