The Hoods - Gangsters & Morticians In WAV - Scans are included 1Standback (Payback) 2She Put A Hex On Me 3Gangster Jack 4You Keep On Lyin' 5Laughing At You 6She's Alright 7Two's A Crowd 8Mystery 9I'm Your Mortician 10Nothing At All 11She's My Car 12Rain Starts Fallin' 13I Wander Around 14Stupidity
After the last gap efforts of the Tell Tale Hearts, Ugly Things Magazine's creator Mike Stax joined up with ex members of the Trebels in 1991 to form the Hoods. The band's 14 track demo was rerecorded for their LP "Gangsters and Morticians" . It's well known that Stax is crazy about the Pretty Things and Q65. This release is no different- intense and purposeful. Here, Everybody is faultless: from vocalist Jay Wiseman (co- author of a lot of the songs) to organist RON Swart. Stax was asked in the interview the difference between the Hoods and his past bands. His response was "More energy, more humor and more beer".
The Mean Jeans are, as they call themselves, a "Cool Punk / Dumb Punk" trio from Portland, Oregon featuring Billy Jeans: GTR/VOX; Jeans Wilder: DRUMS/VOX; Junior Jeans : BASS.
After two full-lengths released on Dirtnap Records(Are You Serious? in 2009 and On Mars in 2012), a slew of 7”s and a compilation aptly titled "Singles" in 2015, the band signed to Fat Wreck Chords earlier this year.
On their latest delivery, "Tight New Dimension" the band has written a batch of tunes that are pretty much impossible to resist. It’s quite hard to pull out a couple of songs to be favorites since the entire album is great. From "Nite Vision" to "I Don’t Care That I Don’t Care", these songs will have you singing along all day long. The music is tighter than ever, RIVERDALES/SCREECHING WEASEL-influenced pop-punk with a bit of a garage-rock attitude and it proves if proof was needed that these party animals evolved from the raw sound of their early days to the polished power-pop-punk machine of today.
The Band is touring Europe at the moment, don't miss them out: 07/29/16Hasselt , BelgiumDe Witte Non 07/30/16Rotterdam, NetherlandsV11 07/31/16Mannheim , GermanyJUZ 08/02/16Vienna, AustriaArena 08/03/16Munich, GermanyKafe Kult 08/04/16Heilbronn, GermanyBierkrug 08/05/16Frankfurt, GermanyExZess
The Reactions - Saturday's Gone Wild In wav - Scans are included Tonight In Society It's Our Turn Now Haulover Beach Somewhere, Anywhere Saturday's Gone Wild She's The Only One Be My Girl No Way Out Nights On End Marianne I Can't Help It Rebel Rousers Without Your Love That's No Way To Spend Your Youth Tammy Sick Of You
The Reactions, a celebrated but short-lived Miami punk band, disbanded after the release of their 1981 EP "Love You", sealing their fate as little more than a nostalgic footnote in the history of punk. Boasting the late Miami guitar hero Johnny Salton on bass, The Reactions released just two (now very rare and valuable) EPs between 1980 and 1981. Founded by guitarist and songwriter Isaac Baruch, singer Tony Supa, drummer Joey Maya, and Salton, The Reactions were part of an era ripe with power pop and punk bands. In 1980, The Reactions recorded 14 songs during a four-hour studio session they’d won in a battle of the bands hosted by WSHE radio at the Agora in Hallandale.
The PLATINUM BOYS are a Proto-Punk/Rock and Roll/Power Pop outfit from Milwaukee, Wisconsin featuring MATTY MAYHEM - Guitars and vocals; HOLLYWOOD HEWZ - Guitars and vocals; JOEY TURBO - Bass and vocals; SKUFCA - Drums.
After a first single (Candy B/W Wild child) on Windian records in 2014, the band released its brilliant debut full length "Future Hits" on Dusty Medical Records in 2015. At the end of that same year "Junior Varsity" was released as a digital download and limited edition cassette. The latest single from Milwaukee’s Best ("Lights out") just came out on June 30, 2016 on Gloss Records from Milwaukee.
Here is a little chat yours truly had with Matty :
1° What can you tell to the viewers of this blog about the history of the band, who's playing what in the band, etc....
We formed a couple of years ago because of our unified love for Rock'n'Roll /Power-pop/ double leads/ Thin Lizzy. We all played in different bands at one point or another and wanted to take a stab at writing formulaic songs in the vein of skuzzy drug and booze soaked rock n roll.
2° Are you guys doin' this full time or do you have day jobs to pay the rent?
Partying is a full time job man.
3° What about the not-so-glamorous-covers? Well actually the one of "Junior Varsity" is quite hilarious but the one of "Future Hits" looks like two drunks fighting in a bar. Do you mind to comment about that?
We were at this old bar in what used to be the auto manufacturing area in Milwaukee called Roth's to take our first round of promo pictures and we got to talking to the two dudes that are on the cover. The older gentleman with the beard is actually the owner of the joint and the guy giving him a choke hold lives upstairs in a tenement like situation. They were awesome people and part of "old Milwaukee" so to speak. A lot of american cities are getting infested with young professional types that kind of distort the narrative of the city because they have no idea of where the city came from and all thats important is their condo/yoga studio/fresh food store multiplex.
4° Beside the not-so-glamorous-cover, there is the music and this is quite another story. I really dig you rock'n'roll primitiveness and 70's vibes. Who is the main composer, if there is any or do you guys tend to jam until there's something coming out of it?
Generally we write the music all together. Joey our bassist will sometimes come up with a bass line that we write chords over, then I will write a lead line and sometimes a double lead for casey to play over it. Then when the song is basically written Joey writes lyrics for em.
5° What can you tell about your choice of covers songs (CCR, Eagles)? Are you playing more covers on stage?
Those are the only two covers we know. We played an Elvis tune once for Halloween. We were gonna do a Flamin Groovies song but never got around to learning it. CCR and Eagles are two quintessential american rock and roll bands and we wanted to pay homage to them. We had this crazy idea to play Born on the Bayou about 70 BPM faster than the actual song and, surprisingly, it worked. We learned the Eagles tune for a Halloween gig as well and it just kinda stuck. we've been playing that one out live mostly. Its pretty funny, depending on where we are in the country, people either love it or hate it. People are so nice so they'll passively tell us they didn't like it. its just funny how some people fucking despise the Eagles. i get that they were like the pretty boys of rock n roll in the 70's, but damn if they didn't make great music.
6° What can concert goers expect at a Platinum Boys gig? Are you guys the "future of rock'n'roll" as Jon Landau once stated?
Our shows are really fun and we are pretty humble. we love having the opportunity to play music in front of new people so we always try and show them a good time. It'll be loud, and probably much faster than the record and with a sense of urgency. I (Matty) am usually bouncing all over the place and screaming inaudible shit into the microphone. and yeah we are the future of rock n roll motherfuckers. just waiting for these other fools to get out of our way.
Bottom line : these guys don't cheat! They are for real and so are their records. So you know exactly what to do. Go to their gigs because they love to party and buy their records because they play great songs.
Kevin K - Hollywood In WAV - Scans are included 1Story Of A Girl 2Life In LA 3Jennifer Love Song 43 Inches Tall 5The Final Damnation 6Single Girl 7Heartbreak Comedy 8Hollywood High 9Way Out West 10Another Pretty Face 11No Ice In Paradise 12Hook Me Up 13Joey And Dee Dee 14Hollywood 15Circle Of Thieves 16Snake Pit
"Hollywood"..A up and down rockin roll ride through the streets of Los Angeles.This is the 15th studio cd from Kevin K. It features all his band mates from around the globe.
From the Road Vulture rock of "Life In LA". to the female sexy tv star admired pop of "Jennifer Love Song".Written about the amazing Jennifer love Hewitt..She should be on a stamp !! On the sad death of Dee Dee Ramone in Hollywood captured in "Joey and Dee Dee". The cd also has 4 acoustic songs,something that has been missing on the last few Kevin K cds. "Circle Of Thieves" is a rare 8 track recording Kevin did with his late brother Alan in 1988 at a seedy studio on Pico blvd.
Nothing has changed in the world of song writing for Mr.K. Just well crafted songs with killer choruses. http://www.mediafire.com/download/byi6aei9sk31hm7/Kevin_K_-_Hollywood.rar
THE YUM YUM'S Sweet as candycd 1998 1+2 records In WAV - Scans are included Crazy over you Right now Miss you , baby Back to Rosie Out of luck Be my baby Never let you go Be with me It's hard Baby I'm so lonely Rush hour Number one Always the last to know
The Yum Yum's : Morten Henricksen : lead vocals & guitar / Stig Amundsen : bass & backing vocals / Thomas Dahl : drums & backing vocals / John Martinsen : guitar .
Let's consider the three minute pop-song for a second or two: so simple in its construction, so inscrutable in its perfection, so many who have tried and failed...For me The Yum Yums have been THE band to watch over the past couple of years, their perfect (yep, it's true) take on the "power-pop" thing a source of constant pleasure and amazement. Following on from their 45's on the Screaming Apple and Sneakers labels, comes this platter, so chock full of goodies that is difficult to take in one sitting. Vocalist/Guitarist/Songwriter Morten Henriksen has the rare ability to take the most banal and over-used pop ingredients - the word "baby", power chords and sunny harmonies - and fashion them into something fresh. The guy's a pop-alchemist of the first degree!In my humble opinion, there's only ever been a handful of perfect debut pop/punk albums over the past twenty years - the first Plimsouls, Real Kids, Damned, Ramones and Barracudas outings immediately springs to mind. This is another to add to that short list. Twelve tracks of pure perfection including fantastic covers of The Pointed Sticks "Out Of Luck" and unbelievably Jane Wiedlin's "Rush Hour" .... Kids... "this is rock'n'roll" at his best level !!! by J.Hutton -Bucketfull of brains.
Special thanks to Patrick for this power popping contribution http://www.mediafire.com/download/9heayvrbmnqgwp9/The_Yums_Yums_-_Sweet_As_Candy.rar
Andre Williams - I Wanna Go Back To Detroit City In FLAC - Scans are included 1. I Wanna Go Back To Detroit City 2. Times 3. What Now? 4. Meet Me at the Graveyard 5. Mississippi Sue 6. Detroit (I'm So Glad I Stayed) 7. Hall of Fame 8. I Don't Like You No More 9. Morning After Blues
At 79 years old, Andre Mr Rhythm Williams has been a singer, writer,producer, star-maker, showman, cult hero and hustler for six decades. He has been high, and he has been low. He has toured the world in snazzy suits and lived on the streets asking for change.
For I Wanna Go Back To Detroit City, he wanted to return to his adopted hometown of Detroit - a town that has seen peaks and valleys just like Andre; from hustle and bustle to bust, from drinking out of crystal to drinking out of brown paper. Not my rip.
The Woggles - Souled Out! In FLAC - Scans are included A1Karate Monkey A2Treat Her Like A Lady A3Somebody's Been Sleeping B1I Can't Please You B2True Kings Of Rock & Soul (Souled Out) B3Big Bird
The 10" features 6 sizzlers from The Woggles and finds the band showing off some of their Soul and R&B roots. Included are 5 cover songs and one original tune. Recorded at Dave Barbe's Chase Park Transduction Studio in Athens, GA in 2014.
