Horrorpops

Live At the Wiltern

Blu-ray and DVD

(Cleopatra)

68 minutes of technicolor spectacle. Sprawling onstage extravaganza in which multi-textured psycho is but one factor, albeit a head-bangingly stimulative one.

Recommended: "Julia," "Thelma and Louise," "Kool Flattop," "Freaks In Uniforms," "Undefeated," "Missfit," "Psychobitches Outta Hell," "Ghouls," "Miss Take," "Where They Wander."

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Cleopatra

 Dave Phillips and the Hot Rod Gang

I Lost My Beer / I'm Gonna Toss My Cookies

(KEiL Records)

First-chair rockabilly of the sterling countenance one would expect from Master Phillips. Swaggering jocularity, in mid-imbibing and rueful morning-after accounts.

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Keil Records

 The Meteors

The Curse Of Blood and Bones

(Cleopatra)

P. Paul down to his iniquitous tricks again, as only he is darkly suited. Limited edition red vinyl.

Recommended: "All I Do," "The Queen Of Zorch," "All I Can Do Is Cry," "Creature," "Haunted," "She's My Witch," "Daughter Of the Deep," "Alligator Man 2020," "Guilty As Charged," "You Used To Be (The Usual Suspects)," "Little Hellcat," "(Ghost) Riders In the Sky"

"Daughters Of the Deep"

Mutant Rock Records

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Cleopatra

 Johnny Jetson

Lick It and Split

Mp3 (self)

Johnny is Rock 'N' Roll personified. And he's got the chops to validate the claim made by dashing '70s elan. Vocals recall Bolan.

Recommended: "American Knight," "I Gotta Get Through," "Light 'em Up," "Overheated," "Rock 'N' Roll Girl," "Shadows On The Moon," "Shine You Up," "Sunday After Church," "Turn It Out"

"American Knight"

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 Arthur Brown

Fire b/w

Zombie Yelp

(Cleopatra)

The infamous 1960s God Of Hellfire reinvents his hit, a sinister turn in the flower power decade. The flip's histrionics parallel that unnerving precedent.

Cleopatra

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Video: "Fire"

 Dave Del Monte

and the Cross County Boys

Sloppy Jalopy /

Take On Me

(self)

Agreeably rollicking ode to a rat rod that, like its theme song, speeds economically to its cool destination. "Take On Me" is a moody instrumental reading of that '80s Aha tune.

"Sloppy Jalopy"

"Take On Me"

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 Billy Lee Riley

Alternatively (El Toro)

4-song, 7-inch 45

Alternate takes of long-beloved Sun tracks. Colored vinyl. El Toro has similar Alternatively discs available of Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Gene Summers, and Warren Smith.

This is gold.

Recommended: "Rock With Me Baby," "Trouble Bound," "Red Hot," "Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll."

El Toro