Daddy Rabbit

Let's Have A Party

(Independent)

Sure, the playing is solid, and the writing admirable. It's the sonorous vocals, though, that most distinguish this endeavor. Awe inspiring.

Recommended: "Let's Have a Party," "I Got the Blues," "Splitsville," "Hey, Baby," "Claws," Stop, Don't Go."

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Mad3

"Real Cool Cats" b/w "No Stopping"

(Independent)

Mad3 have got the chops to back up their attentiveness to cat style. In fact, this swings out to such a degree that the fashion sense is practically superfluous. But it's so engaging, so much a visual complement to the music, that it seems organic and appropos.

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Midnight Howlers

Rockabilly Girl

(Giant Bear Music)

A pleasant respite from cacophonous outbursts. Mellow and tuneful. The harmonizing is enough to carry the song beyond merely agreeable and onto silken real estate.

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The Moonshine Stalkers

Return To Splatter House

4-track vinyl EP

(Devil's Brew Productions)

One manifest quality is efficiency of attack. A second is muscularity. Resolute beat propels the entirety, with stringed dive bombing carpeting the aural area for extreme reward.

Recommended: "When You Know You Are Insane," "Married A Martian," "The Mummy," "Half the Clown I Used To Know."

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Washington Dead Cats

Monkey Brain

(Devil Deluxe Music)

Often frenetically paced, tilted presentation benefits from careening horn section. Hijinx of an otherworldy nature. Nothing wrong with fun for its own sake, especially when it sounds good.

Recommended: "Monkey Brain," "I Need a Place To Cry," "Man Made Monster," "Are We All Zombies," "Black Moon Is Rising," "Man Made Out Of Lies," "Rattlesnake Woman," "White Riot."

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Blowtorches

Burn It Down

(Devil's Brew Productions)

Were it not for combos like this, life would indeed be listless. As it is, these gentleman fly out of the gate and don't stop 'til you drop.

Recommended: "Motto," "Ridgerunner," "Murray's For Hold (Royal Crown For Shine)," "Burn It Down," "Don't Think Twice," "Name Game," "Nail Those Coffins Shut," "The Falcons Are Coming."

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Poky

CS II cassete

(Independent)

Hefting their instruments like bayonets, the jaw-jutting members of Poky seem happiest when making ear-shattering collisions of the sort that leave all bruised and sated. Punk lives - after a bellicose fashion.

Recommended: "UFO Landet," "Ganker," "Unpaid Debts," "The Crown," "Thomas," "Omelet."

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