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Monday, January 25, 2016

Voodoo Zombie
"Santa Muerte" ( self)


Ancient, arcane spell-casting and puzzle-shrouded alchemy continue on inexorable eve march, impelled to icy-veined command by startling alacrity, thunderclap authority. Listen, passion-clenched, as savage Chilean psycho-beasts rail in determined cacophony with razor-hacked, multi-hued delicious awfulness. And see the skeletons dance...

Recommended "Santa Muerte," "Video Snuff," "Lost In the City of Vampires," "Estas Botos Son Para Kaminar," "Roller Derby Go!," "Whiskill," "Hombre Voodoo Espanol"



VIDEO "Video Snuff" (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlH6_7KTiEc

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Bishops Green
"A Chance To Change" (Rebellion)


A violent eleventh hour gust splinters the pane, knocking to the rug a Vancouver public school Class of 1978 yearbook. It lies open to the updated, 2015 Oi! punk section. Stout boots, angry guitars, jaw-jutted consciousness. "Stand up tall / use your voice!" Crank the volume, 
lunar-luster soldiers - time again to stomp down broken streets. We'll take the world, tonight.

Recommended "Lost Generation," "Resistance," "Defiance," "Caged," "Invisible"



VIDEO "Lost Generation" 

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Waco Brothers
"Going Down In History" (Bloodshot)


Sentient, hot-pulsing Americana with all desired effulgence. Follow along, pushing low-hanging branches from your path, and settle into seasoned, rural-blooded world-slices
in which each wise actor makes much of his role.

Recommended "Had Enough," "DIYBYOB," "Devil's Day," "Orphan Song," "We Know It"



AUDIO "Had Enough" 

Go Get Gone
"Go Get Gone" (self)


More than a veracious portrayal of the band's vernal identity and potential, this debut waxing showcases already solid, redoubtable capacity for remarkable roof-rattling. Like the man said: If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair.

Recommended "All My Waitln'," "Chasin' My Baby," "Bad Seed," "Crazy Little Baby," "That Cat Goes"



Friday, January 22, 2016

Various Artists
"Schnitzelbilly: Rockabilly Made In Austria, #1" 
(Plan 9 Trash Records)


Austria is a far piece from Memphis. But only geographically. The rambunctious, uncouth rebel vibe interpreted through spartan pastoral boppin' acknowledges no spatial demarcation in its persuasive sweep.

Recommended "Fight Tonight" (Hemenex), "Rebel's Heart" (Rioters) "Rockabilly Bop" (Rockabulls), "Domino" (Crazy Cubes)


VIDEO "Rockabilly Bop" (Rockabulls) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkUQQznRkyo

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Reckless Ones
"Reckless Ones" (self)


Spartan, rock-ribbed, and headlong-dashing sounds are for us all indispensable daily-world nourishment. We live life by the downbeat; it succors us in the sunlight, and charges our moonlight bacchanalia. And then, that special girl appears. The focus sharpens, chaos is revealed to have suddenly paramount import, and dancing becomes high expression.

Recommended "Desert Rose," "Merry Go-Round," "Mean Pickin' Mama," "It's Time"




Hank Biggs and the Hardtops
"Let's Go!" (Deerhorn)


In these waxed grooves lies the singularly in-pocket product of a wee hours boppin' union: Rockabilly went creepin', swing made the scene, and dig what came of it all. 5-track EP.

Recommended "Let's Go!," "She Needs Shoes (To Rock'n'Roll)," "Queen of Gasoline"



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FORMER staff writer for Rockabilly and Pin Up America magazines. FREELANCE credits include Daily Caller, American Thinker, Free Republic, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Independent Political Report, USA Today, Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Waterloo Courier, Cedar Falls Times, Marshalltown Times Republican, Cincinnati.com, IndyStar, Arizona Republic, No Depression, Goldmine, Blue Suede News, Rock and Rap Confidential, Crackerjack, Blues News, Wrecking Pit, Punk Globe, Prairie Sun, Music and Sound Output, BAM, New Music, and 1980s NYC fanzines Shake, Rattle, and Roll, Rebel Rouser, and Off the Wall. AUTHOR: Shake, Rattle and Rocket!, Ghost Saucers in the Sky!, Stratosphere Boogieman!, Flesh Made Music, That a Man Can Again Stand Up: American spirit vs, sedition during the incipient Trump Revolution, and Ideas Afoot: Political observations, social commentary, and media analyses. WORKED as 2004 Iowa coordinator for Ralph Nader independent presidential campaign; co-founded Iowa Green Party, also served as statewide media coordinator; press coordinator, 2002 Jay Robinson (Green) IA gubernatorial effort. Wrote extensively re Trump campaign..