The Mighty Interceptors

scream if you wanna go faster   EP

(Self-issued)

Methinks singing guitar-slinger McKinley Chadwick is the Mighty Interceptors (at least on this waxing), insomuch as he alone crafted all tunery, played each insttrument, and undertook mixing/mastering toils. (Sidemen being enlisted for gig/touring obligations, no doubt.) 

Last October, a band Facebook missive hailed this disc as sounding "pretty darn evil," that high salute merited by the unveiled song sextet. "We're the Interceptors" kickstarts proceedings; besides foreshadowing rash energies ahead, it deftly acquits itself as one of the bygone safety-pin contingent's more obstreperous progeny. 

While Punk helter-skelteredness curls its lip throughout, it revels with co-conspirators of brusque Psycho and Garage tempers. The abruptly torn-off solo of the title cut, if heard on a car radio, might cause drivers to jerk upright and veer into oncomers.

Recommended: "We're the Interceptors," "Alien Rock'n'Roll," "Evil Woman," "Scream if You Wanna Go Faster"

No videos for the new disc are available. Previous live clips are here, here, and here.

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Rankarumpu

(Nuclear Blast Records)

To virginal speculators, Folk Metal may seem a curious entity. But its magnetism overwhelms all qualms. Hard-crunching bombardments meld with fetching airs of Euro vintage, seeking - and securing - ears weary of stasis and attentive to fresh ambitions. Peculiar spice, tittilating to wayfarers, all. (My wife's ruling: "They're on it!")

Recommended: "Kotomaa," "Aita," "Saunaan," "Mettään," "Kalmisto," "No perkele," "Nouse," "Orrakkelit"

Videos: "Kotomaa" (live)   "Aita"   "Mettään"   "Orrakkelit"

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Angela Hoodoo

Outlaw Girls

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Hats sported by Angela include introspective truth-teller and gladsome dust-kicker. She models each stylishly, as engaging Country players of fine measure do their genre forebears proud. (Nicolás Huguenin, Carlos Jiménez, Frank Mora, Nahum Canoura, and Raúl Bernal are in the kitchen.) As is of paramount significance for ensemble denim minstrels, they mesh without apparent seams and raise up sounds sterling. The starring lady's singing, all the while, traverses the passion spectrum, beflowering the project with unique disposition.

(Somewhere far o'er head, Loretta nods.)

Recommended: "Outlaw Girls," "I've Got Soul for My Enemies," "Snakes in My Head," "Don't Get Into Trouble," "Wild Horse," "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven"

Videos: "Outlaw Girls"   "Snakes in My Head" (live)   "Wild Horse"

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Dee Dee and the Bel Airs

Moonshine Recording Session

(Hydra Records)

Jive is giggle juice that motorizes.

Per Original Product, Dee Dee and his audacious ensemble's 1980s animation included tearing into Rockabilly festivals alongside Gene, Carl, Haley's Comets, Tommy Sands, Wanda, and Frankie Ford. 

The following decade, the combo heeded Curly's exhortation to "Swing it!" (Mama didn't allow no scat 'round there, but the galluses-snapping slickers succumbed to hot'n'cold temptation.)

Today, they're wringing every possible excitement drop from Jump Blues fabric. Risque finger-curls, strapping sounds bolstered by brass and ivory struttings, and scarlet 'tudes splay up, across, and all around the ballroom. Hepification gonna get you.

Dee Dee's vocal-chord perpetrations - sometimes laid-back, in other moments, jumpin' for joyfulness - bring to mind marvelous sides of yore waxed at Syd Nathan's Ohio King label. And the Harmony Five are just plain homicidal, in the finest of all possible fashions.

Smoke pours from dancing shoes sported by slick cats who squire frails before the rostrum, to the flabbergastation of absolutely no one. 

Recommended: "Do You Wanna Be My Baby," "Beauty Parlor Gossip," "Hot Pot Boogie," "Hot'n'Cold Seek," "Don't Know Where She Went," "Sway," "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie," "Mellow Saxophone," "Sh-Boom"

Videos: "Do You Wanna Be My Baby" (live)   "Beauty Parlor Gossip" (1/2)   "Hot Pot Boogie" (live 1:13 excerpt)   "Sh-Boom"   

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Mike Badger

Devils Ghosts & Firearms

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Hours spent listening as mavens of the first order exercise merit are never squandered. 

To fully appreciate Mike's efforts, one does best by beginning with the final, title track. It's an expansive, Americana projection through churned intensity, one in which the La's co-creator holds forth with literate courage. Pop traces peek, and are of the ripened sort. Tracks like "Ghost in This Machine," "Growing Old So Gracefully," and "Dark Side of the Mountain" share the titular composition's mature voice and moving construction.

"Shoot Me in the Head" and "Cudda Wudda Shulda" ably illustrate Mike's higher-gear inclination. Both are Rockabilly rousers with pronounced Country swayings that endear. "Keep 'em Busy" is another raver; Perry Bradford's estate might enquire after credit. (Which isn't a knock; all traddish neo-rockers summon comparisons. And there's nothing illegitimate about adding one's own imprint to preceding forms.)

Accord this due respect by placing it on a high shelf.

Recommended: "Ghost in This Machine," "Wolfman," "Shoot Me in the Head," "How the Hell it Come to This," "Keep 'em Busy," "Dark Side of the Mountain," "Cudda Wudda Shudda," "Half Bottle of Whisky," "Devils Ghosts and Firearms"

Videos: "Ghost in This Machine"   "Wolfman"   "Shoot Me in the Head (If I Ever Become One of Them"    "Keep 'em Busy" 

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Verbiegen is' nicht! (Bending is Not)

(Self-issued)

As in "not an option." A 3:00 manifesto in which Deutschland pugilists aver determination to maintain posture, no matter the oppostional forces arrayed. Their stance is proclaimed against an unstoppable, bare-knuckled Punk barrage. Chorded militancy that scares off adversaries. What's the Rock'n'Roll equivalent of Hungry Man Dinners? This.

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Sidebürns

"Not What Used to Be"   single

(Self-issued)

“I didn’t want to sugarcoat it. It’s about emotional captivity – and the moment you finally get to breathe again,” was the portrait daubed by German-trio pathbreaker Ralf Sideburn. But do not assume observational profundity must be dismal. Whole cities are in very real peril of meltdown, when this jet-engined inferno befalls landscapes. Full-bodied rampage manifests lyrics' liberational embrace. These amps go to 11, at 600 mph. November 14 release date scheduled.

(And planned for March issuance is EP Beer-Fueled Bastards. A tour will commence soon after.)

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