Tag: rock

  • Drowns & Plizzken – Split 7” Single

    Drowns & Plizzken – Split 7” Single

    The Drowns/Plizzken “Lost Boys Of Suburbia” b/w “One More Time” split single (Pirates Press Records) It doesn’t feel as though it happens very often, but some releases (and their contents) defy explanation. Like, how does a song appear on a single and nowhere else – particularly when the song in question features such a high…

  • S-E-R-V-I-C-E – Drag Me LP

    S-E-R-V-I-C-E – Drag Me LP

    S-E-R-V-I-C-E Drag Me LP (Let’s Pretend Records) While fans already had a pretty good idea where Jon Spencer would end up following the dissolution of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in 2016 (other than making appearances in the multitude of projects to which the guitarist had offered both his name and talent over the years,…

  • Sweat – Gotta Give It Up LP

    Sweat – Gotta Give It Up LP

    Sweat Gotta Give It Up LP (Pirates Press Records) On the surface, the cliche that, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” writes itself into any discussion about Gotta Give It Up. Yes – from the opening notes of “Hit & Run,” the opening cut on Gotta Give It Up, Sweat presents itself like…

  • Come Closer – Pretty Garbage LP

    Come Closer – Pretty Garbage LP

    Come Closer Pretty Garbage LP (Pirates Press Records) While it’s very easy for me to get excited about a new punk band that I’ve never heard before (I’ve been listening to a lot of punk, for a for a lot of years), running across something which makes me excited because I can’t immediately qualify it…

  • The Lorrainas – Party ‘Til It’s Dark [Reissue] LP

    The Lorrainas – Party ‘Til It’s Dark [Reissue] LP

    The Lorrainas Party ‘Til It’s Dark LP (Reissue) (Surfin’ Ki’ Records/Mom’s Basement Records) Sure, this vinyl reissue of Party ‘Til It’s Dark – The Lorrainas’ first and only full-length studio album – may seek to re-introduce material which is now seventeen years old, but anyone who hears it will excitedly admit that the music sounds…

  • The Monsters – You’re Class, I’m Trash LP

    The Monsters – You’re Class, I’m Trash LP

    The Monsters You’re Class, I’m Trash LP (Voodoo Rhythm Records) Arguably the greatest compliment one can pay to a punk record is not to call it “good” or “great” or anything like that (because such terms can be – and have been – dismissed as a matter of opinion or as a matter of perception),…

  • TK and The Holy Know-Nothings – The Incredible Heat Machine LP

    TK and The Holy Know-Nothings – The Incredible Heat Machine LP

    TK and The Holy Know-Nothings The Incredible Heat Machine LP (Mama Bird Recording Company) It isn’t always easy for this writer to get into country music (there often has to be a “alt-country” plank in the floor to make it easier to enter on), but it didn’t take me long to find my way to…

  • Grade 2 – Graveyard Island: Acoustic Sessions 12” EP

    Grade 2 – Graveyard Island: Acoustic Sessions 12” EP

    Grade 2 Graveyard Island: Acoustic Sessions 12” EP (Epitaph/Pirates Press Records) As someone wise once said, “Life is what happens while you’re making other plans,” and no punk band is making the best of a bad situation more than Grade 2 has, lately. The band had to put the promotional efforts behind their Epitaph debut…

  • T. Hardy Morris – The Digital Age Of Rome LP

    T. Hardy Morris – The Digital Age Of Rome LP

    T. Hardy Morris The Digital Age of Rome LP (New West Records) It’s weird to think how tumultuous a year 2020 was, and how that tumult was reflected in the music which was released at the time. Even if a band didn’t actually have a political streak in their hair or bone in their body,…

  • Glenn Hughes – Justified Man

    Glenn Hughes – Justified Man