Lesly's Dynamite
Not As Usual
(Tessy Records)
Crack combo provides perfect spotlight turn for skirt-snapping chanteuse with refined pipes. Lesly is equally adept at ravers and sultry torch numbers, as are the players assembled about her.
Recommended: "Mr. Piggy Bank," "Careful Love," "Give Me Love," "Dance To Find Your Love," "Hop and Don't Stop," "Race With the Devil," "
Video: "Give Me Love"
Iggy Pop
Every Loser
(Atlantic)
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That he's survived long enough to make a 19th LP is in itself something of a triumph; he's been through the war a couple of times. But only rarely does this approach the undulating snarl of Iggy's early period. Creative growth is crucial, true. Decades have passed, and it would be boring (for all of us) to record the same album all your professional life. Important to note, though: change isn't necessarily a positive.
Still, those rare moments beat all Hell out of just about everybody.
Recommended: "Frenzy," "Modern-Day Rip Off," "Neo Punk," "The Regency"
Video: "Frenzy" (TV)
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Chinese Junk
Genocide
(Brassneck)
"Playing guitar is my way of screaming at the world," once remarked Dee Dee. There is much of such screaming, on here. Angry release is invigorating.
Recommended: "Plastic Bag," "You Rattle My Cage," "Genocide," "Coffee Shop Massacre"
Video: Full EP
Suicidal Sinatra
Los Sinatra 14
(Independent)
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To any who might brand this too measured and mellifluous to qualify as actual psychobilly, a salient response would be that conformity gets boring quite quickly. That adventuring afield can merit commendation. And that only the brave create singular art.
Recommended: "Bernyanyi Sampai Mati," "I Am Soldier," "Rise Up," "Los Sinatra," "Menyerah," "Sampah," "We Are Psycho"
Video: "Rise Up"
The Circulators
s/t
(Willowhouse)
Shaw said youth is wasted on the young. Maybe. But what if the young are wasted and plugged in? Punk with power-pop tones can result, and here, does. A $5 cassette of hand-clapping exuberance Shaw never knew.
Recommended: "Generation Next," "Broken Mirrors," "Nocturnal Boys," "On the Loose," "It Won't Be Me," "Wired Over You," "Can't Get My Way"
Video: "It Won't Be Me"
Back In the Day: 1983
American Patrol
Backseat Boogie
(Vanity Records)
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Having made his bones at Rollin' Rock and in Jimmy and the Mustangs, guitarist./singer Jerry Sikorski founded this swinging rockabilly quartet. With heavy emphasis on keys and Spyder Mittleman's honking saxophone -- and predating the BSO by years -- American Patrol reeled and rocked like few others were able. That the vibrant, textured combo never received the acclaim due it was an egregious injustice. Fortunately, vinyl lives on for longtime fans and a new crop of appreciators.
Decades later,Sikorski teamed with Jim Leslie to revive American Patrol as a guitar-centered, Western-inflected unit.
Recommended: "Wildcat Shakeout," "Pretty Baby," "Shake the Roof," "Bewitched By My Baby," "Backseat Boogie," "Three Alley Cats," "Texas and Pacific," "Give It All You Got," "Prowler"
Video: "Shake the Roof"
Danny B. Harvey
Wave Dancin'
(Independent)
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New from the prolific and prodigiously gifted Danny B. is an instrumental that encompasses introspection and observation. It buoys listeners to sandy, sun-strobed cavortings. The accompanying video focuses its attentions on watery wunderkind Victoria Vegara, who gracefully navigates surging waves of precariousness.
Purchase: Bandcamp
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