The Oxys
A Date With...
(Dead Beat Records)
Recommended: "Liars, Betrayers, and Spies," "Motel Hell," "Premeditated," "Rock'n'Roll Eyes," "Machine Gun," "Voodoo Queen," "Anxieties"
Video: "Machine Gun"
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Jane Rose & the Deadends
s/t
(Always a Hit Records)
When Jane throws back her pink-haired head and roars, with her robust band barnstorming at her elbow, all creation may seem about to rend asunder. Such is the forcefulness seething in these grooves. Country edge performs grounding function.
Recommended: "Hot Rod Daddy," "Wrong Kind of Guy," "Bad Little Betty," "Eye On You," "Mopar Car," "Not For Nothing," "Makes Me Want To Sin"
Video: "Bad Little Betty" (live)
McPherson Struts
Hotrod Karma EP
(Rumble Road Records)
It's always good to encounter a band that eschews studo niceties and just plain storms. Without so much as an introduction, McPherson Struts concentrate on the matter at hand, which is demonstrating the power inherent in instruments wielded like weapons. As skillful as detonative.
Recommended: "Live At Five," "Truck Song," "Hotrod Karma," "The Ballad of Red Spoon"
Video: Live
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
L.A.M.F. Live At the Village Gate 1977
(Cleopatra)
Walter Lure called this gig among their best. It does sound like vintage Heartbreakers: energetic, slurred, and hard-lashed.
Robert Gordon completists will want this as he appears on a chestnut. But while it sounds fun, the legendary singer fit better with his usual tight accompaniment than the Thunders group's characteristic shambolism.
That caveat to one side, though, the Heartbreakers were in the top league of the 1970s punk era. Hear why.
Reccommended: "Chinese Rocks," "Pirate Love," "Get Off the Phone," "All By Myself," "Let's Go," "Chatterbox," "Onee Track Mind," "Take a Chance On Me," "Born Too Loose," "Do You Love Me," "Boppin' the Blues," "I Wanna Be Loved"
Video: "Get Off the Phone"
Buddy Guy
The Blues Don't Lie
(RCA)
Chicago Blues don't get more real than this. From Buddy's voice and fingertips flow truths, observations, and poignant notes as immediate as fortunes gone awry. Still, hope for something salutary winks on the horizon - witness the occasional ferocity.
Recommended: "I Let My Guitar Do the Talking," "Symptoms of Love" (feat. Elvis Costello), "Well Enough Alone," "What's Wrong With That" (feat. Bobby Rush)," "House Party" (feat. Wendy Moten)," "Backdoor Scratchin'," "Last Call," "King Bee"
Video: "Symptoms Of Love"
Los Aceitosos
High Octane Neo-Rockabilly
(Vinyl Records)
Congenial presentation with all the beloved elements in place. Precedents echo, but they are springboards for vigorous originals. Present-time prizes, they portend future releases' bounty.
Recommended: "Fiebre De Bop," "Perdiendo La Razón," "Vagabundo," "Yo Pecador," "Maldito Tren," "Buscando Mi Destino," "Nunca Sabrás," "Estado Mental," "Puñalada," "Mi Covertible"
Video: "Fibre De Bop"
The Hangmen
Unspeakable atrocities are delineated to a ricocheting doom beat. Fittingly, this was loosed on All Hallow's Eve. Malefactors in shadows dance.
Debauchery In the Mortuary
(Independent)
Recommended: "House Of Bone," "Collarbone," "The Letter," "Hexing," "Thermonuclear Whore," "True Hate Never Dies"
Video: "Thermonuclear Whore"
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