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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Johnny Rocket
Come a Little Closer
(Wolverine Records)




It's only right that Johnny Rocket's rope-burned, gutter-blast vocals be abetted by some of the most fervently lashed onrush you or I are likely to ever hear. 

Recommended: "Beggin' For More," "Come a Little Closer," "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah," "A Ride," "Got To Tell You," "I Like you, Baby," "Sold My Soul," "I Know a Lot of Dumbs"

Video: "Beggin' For More"

http://www.johnnyrocket.de/

https://www.facebook.com/johnnyrocketband/

http://shop.wolverine-records.de/product_info.php?info=p236_johnny-rocket---come-a-little-closer-cd-lp.html&XTCsid=spoph1ukk6u3e6dgirpt74sf02


https://open.spotify.com/artist/5CDWW72u6z8zJdU6SdVB60






Lyinheart single
The Last Boys b/w 
Good-Twisted-American-Fun'19



Energy abounds in this arresting, caustic-but-tuneful presentation of arena-rock spectacle. Reminds vividly that the well-flayed metal riff has peculiar authority. All involved bludgeon with enterprise.

The below is excerpted from a blog piece on Lyinheart I wrote a few years back:

The lieutenant ripped the dispatch from the printer and ran to the chief's office.

"Chief! Chief!"

The grizzled 30-year veteran looked up from his paperwork. "Boy, you know better than to run in here..."

"I know, sorry! But --" the aide gulped for breath. "This is BIG!"

"Let me be the judge." 

The lieutenant's hand shook as he handed over the dispatch.

"LYINHEART?!" The chief nearly fell off his chair. "LYINHEART IS COMIN' HERE?!"

His shoulders slumping, the chief trudged to the window. His voice was forlorn, a whisper. "Real peaceful little town, we used to have..."


New audio clipThe Last Boys

New audio clip: Good-Twisted-American-Fun'19


Previously...

Video: "Give Me Rock Or Give Me Death" (Live)

Official video: "Sex On Saturday Night"


https://www.facebook.com/OfficialLyinHeart/

(Contact option at Facebook page)

https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/lyinheart17

https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/5125559


Psycho Charger
Vault of the Psycho
(self / Rot and Roll Records)



2-disc, 32-track compilation of rare, unreleased, live cuts and more. A furious inferno, bursting from a dark dimension and loosing upon this temporal plane a roar of calamitous ramification. Off-balance wit grins through cascading metallic slabs of Creature Featurism. Run, arms outstretched, toward ecstatic immolation.

Leader Jimmy Psycho is said to be preparing a solo disc.

Recommended: "Blood Maniacs," "The Killer In the Go Go Boots," "All Dressed Up," "Flat Tracker," "Operation Psycho," "The Bad Seed," "'Lectro Shock," "The Flesh Eaters," "Fuel-Injected Vengeance," "Grim, Grinning Ghosts," "Chillerama," "I Kissed the Joker," "That's Good"

Video: "I Kissed the Joker"


https://jimmypsycho.bandzoogle.com/psycho-charger

https://www.facebook.com/jimmypsycho/


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/psychocharger6#

https://www.amazon.com/Vault-Psycho-Explicit-Charger/dp/B07MS9R1WH/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=psycho+charger&qid=1554929081&s=music&sr=1-3-catcorr


https://open.spotify.com/artist/0UYz9xtoJXZJHavw4WtSu6




Johnny Jake
Blue Blue World
(self)



For all the headlong dash so often prized (of which there is much on offer, here) the value of clever song construction and more pacific melodicism well merits commendation.

Recommended: "Blue Blue World," "Flying Saucer Saturday Night," "Kimo," "Back In the Arms of a Fool," "Boogie Woogie Baby," "Gotta Get Back," "Wishy Washy," "The Fever Has Ended"

Video: "Flying Saucer Saturday Night"


http://johnnyjake.com/Site_1/Blue_Blue_World.html

https://www.facebook.com/johnny.jake.585/timeline?lst=100010389815287%3A100000119812415%3A1554589550



https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/johnnyjake4

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-World-Johnny-Jake/dp/B07PNSK22T

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blue-blue-world/1456514613






Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Black Knights
Gold Teeth and Silver Charms
(Ilen Records)



Sweden's Black Knights sneer down from a lofty Ted peak. This bold compendium of agile swordsmanship and thunderous expostulations swings and flips, all the while putting the boot to any stuffiness so thick as to loiter about. 1-2-3-4!

Recommended: "Gold Teeth and Silver Charms," "Come On Let's Rock," "Repair My Heart," "Invisible Love," "Who-Wap-Wap," "Terrible Times," "Bus Stop Queen," "Boot Black Boy," "Raw Rhythm Boogie," "Jack In the Box," "My Baby's Gone"

Video: "Gold Teeth and Silver Charms"


https://www.tompowder.com/
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https://www.facebook.com/BlackKnightsRockabilly/


http://www.ilenrecords.com/





Stressor single
Optical Illusion b/w Zombiedog Playground
(self)



Old school psychobilly is a fortress most sinister, wrenched up and madly carpentered in amphetamine abandon, its ghoulish facade a delight to spastic brethren and a terrifying portent for all peeking over its stone-slab wall.

Video: "Optical Illusion"
Video: "Zombiedog Playground"


https://vk.com/stressorofficial

https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/stressor2

https://www.amazon.com/Optical-Illusion-Stressor/dp/B07P1KZMHS

https://open.spotify.com/album/4BRT9r2g7EijksH3IgMXWS






The Banksters
Angry Children
(self)



Sometimes, nothing is more apropos to the moment than "rock and roll trash punk cabaret." Guitars gambol, lilts spring unbound, stout throats intone, and a mightily tripping accordian casts its piquant spell.

Recommended: "Getaway Train," "Free Fall," "Dig That Style," "You Got Me Wrong," "I Want To Get Killed," "So Wild," To End Is the Way"

Video: "Getaway Train"


https://www.facebook.com/thebankstersband/


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/thebanksters

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Angry-Children-Explicit-Banksters/dp/B07NTWBV6P



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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..