The Meteors
The Mental Instrumentals II:
When Guitars Attack
(Mutant Rock)

These tracks hail from various Meteors configurations, as well as P. Paul's solo endeavors. Gnashed psychobilly, Party Beach meditations, and Mexican melodies are all fed into a uniquely sinister device.

An army of ink-barrels have, over decades, been expended portraying his choreographed grotesqueries. And to be sure, his onstage criminally lunatic persona and bug-eyed, howling-mad antics are of striking rank.

But beneath the gleefully morbid exterior, we find a consummate professional. P. Paul richly merits respect for his compositional and six-string abilities. 

His knack for crafting multi-faceted arrangements that span frenetic dash and ominous quietude, while making much of whatever instrumentation is appropriate, sits him in high company, indeed. 

Meanwhile, he tears from his guitar calamitous storms, headlong rocketing, and cannily reined understatements. Studied, complex voicings rival the brutish mayhem. There's ample space for both in P. Paul's presentation, and each exacts its peculiar purpose.

Recommended: "When Guitars Attack," "The Cutter Cuts (While the Widow Weeps)," "Mule Boy and His Unformed Face," "The Multiple Deaths of Pichina," "Do the Blood Feast Twist," "Giancando Con La Mano Sinistra Di Dio," "Blood Beat," "Nightmare In Elche (Alicante Breakdown)," "Halloween Scream," "Surfing Home On a Dead Girl," "Let's Go Play At the Myers House," "L'odio Cavalca De Solo," "Bad Universe," "The Loneliness Of a Long Distance Killer."

Videos: "When Guitars Attack"
"The Cutter Cuts While the Widow Weeps"
"Giancando Con La Mano Sinistra Di Dio"
"Surfing Home On a Dead Girl"


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Doyley and the Twanglords
Twang Solo
Return ofthe Twangi
(Diablo Records)

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Philip Doyle excels at novel instrumental craft; one is as likely to thrill to a mischievous surfers-beach air or leathery Link Wray reference as zoom aloft along uncharted spaceways, battling all manner of sinister and comically odd creatures. These discs surely are alone in combining Hang Ten exhortations with affectionate tips to Gene Roddenberry, Irwin Allen, and Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.

Many laud Doyley's hyper-torrential psycho toil with the Guitar Slingers and Demented Are Go. But any who've thusfar missed his equally astounding sci fi-surf expressions have now the happy opportunity for rectification.

Recommended (Twang Solo): "Zorch + 14," "Twangzilla," "Graviton"," "Hava Nagaila," "The Day of the Triffids," "The Trip," "Johnny Dangerously," "Surf Bitch," "Revenge of the Morlocks," "Django II Bastardo."

Recommended (Return of the Twangi): "Prime Directive," "Joe 90," "Lost In Space," "Botz," "Cybermen," "Kicks Back," "Collision Earth," "Grinder," "Whiskey Charles n Snatch," "Mariachi," "Missing Link," "One More Bite," "Space and Twang."

Videos (Twang Solo): "Zorch + 4"
                                    "Twangzilla"
                                    "Graviton"


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The Gun Club
Danse Kalinda Boom 
Vinyl reissue
(Chaputa Records)

Reissue of 1984 live recordings.

Those intent on digging the singular punk-blues of Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Kid Congo, and Patricia Morrison (with an unknown drummer, possibly Terry Graham) will disregard unflattering audio, and gambol in a fractious mileau through which slid the driven and tormented spirit of Robert Johnson; urban seethe and its distant voodoo kinfolk hunted illicit elation on dissolute boulevards; and schizzing guitars smacked together in madly confluent battle.

Recommended: "Stranger In Our Town," "Gila Monster, New Mexico / Preaching Blues," "Goodbye Johnny," "Sleeping In Blood City," "Give Up the Sun."

Video: "Stranger In Our Town" (non-LP version)


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Red Hot Riot
Nineteen
Digital-only 6-track EP
(self)

Tensed forward like wild-youth flick-knives, in the front row of the incoming class. Similarly sinewy and audacious neo-rockabilly knocked flat the processed pop-rock sludge that predominated in 1970s rip-stitched Punk's wake. Its fresh eruption is gladdening all over.

Recommended: "Life You Get," "Street Lights (Hey Hey Hey)," "Walking the Dog," "Peggy"

Videos: "Life You Get" (Official video)
                   Full Glastonberry 2019 show (52;07)


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Trump Train's A Rollin'
single track

Homespun,irresistably infectious country that rollicks unstoppably for a noble cause: That of the world's most powerful man, and savior (in the desperately needful moment) of the real American Way.

"You can hear the whistle all across the plains,
all the way from Denver down to New Orleans.
She's rollin' from the mountains down to the sea,
even California, all that they can see..."

Now appears a mystery: Exhaustive research turned up nothing about the musicians involved -- no social media presence, recording label, or identifying and contact information.

For reasons unknown they're hiding their light beneath a bushel. Save for this fine song.

Video: "Trump Train's A Rollin'"



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The Heartbreakers
Yonkers Demo 1976 (2 CD)
(Cleopatra Records)

In that year, for those of us new to the razor and not yet battered by the restrictive realities that doom to obscurity pretty much every one of us (later on, one learns to take each minor thrill available, and conclude victory, of a sort) everything seemed within grasp.

Johnny and Jerry had left the New York Dolls. Walter was fresh from the Demons. And Richard had yet to front the Void Oids. Four outlanders, so beyond the world they were excruciatingly of it. (Billy Rath would later replace Richard.)

This demo is raw, crude, and illustrative of the wonder potential in guys with sordid appetites plugging in, daring to dream, and churning wickedly slapdash / meticulous rock and roll that brazenly proclaims its validity.

In enduring accomplishment lies immortality, for uneven souls who create within a derisive clime.

Recommended: "Love Comes In Spurts," "I Wanna Be Loved," "Blank Generation," "Chinese Rocks," "Can't Keep My Eyes On You," "Pirate Love," "Flight," "Hurt Me," "You Gotta Lose," "Goin' Steady" 

Video: "Chinese Rocks," "Pirate Love" (live 1975, unknown location, Thunders, Nolan, Lure, Hell.)


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The Hyperjax
Bringing the Bad Back Home
(Wolverine Records)

Alacritous, economical, and witty describe the Hyperjax as aptly now as in years previous. Theirs is a forcible onslaught, but one judiciously directed and of dangerous effectiveness. A satiating jounce.

Time's passage has brought acidic retrospect -- "I was a desperado with a bit of bravado, on the way from boy to man!" -- but dig that the salad days are still transpiring.

Recommended: "Bringing the Bad Back Home," "Roaming the Dead End Streets," "Shadowbrawler," "The Blind Leading the Blind," "Age of the Addictive Personality," "Going Down Smilin'."

Video: "Bringing the Bad Back Home" 
            "Roaming the Dead End Streets"
            "Going Down Smilin'"



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