This eminently professional operation is nimble and authoritatively conversant in Sun bop, Eddie Cochran melodicism, and vintage Bobby Darin swing. It is relentlessly driven technicolor magic, at once graceful and robust. A tenured fretmaster of flabbergasting facility, Bobby has for […]
As once expertly defined by late Cramps method front-face Lux Interior, Rock and Roll is more than just a music. It’s a many-splendored lifestyle. The French Spunyboys are much closer to orthodox, rumbling, light-footed neo-rockabilly than to the infamous and […]
After decades away from the studio, an original rocker returns to show ’em how it’s done. And he acquits himself handily. Jack’s golden-era hits are legend: “Leroy,” “My True Love,” “Goodbye, Baby,” “The Way I Walk,” “Burning Bridges.” In 2015, the […]
10 surly, rambunctious, and distorted guitars-on-high tracks. Vermont’s self-billed “Finest Cowpunk and Thunderboogie Specialists” admirably transfer the rock and roll mayhem of their barroom bash-downs to disc perpetuity. In the mold of heavy influences like the Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Social […]
The 70s/80s neo-rockabilly uprising developed, partly, from boisterous and blunt punk — at heart, the same cheeky rebel stance assumed by Sun men and the early Rolling Stones. Along with Robert Gordon, the Stray Cats, and the Rockats, Levi Dexter […]
Evidence that rockabilly will never fade away. Three young cats unashamedly in love with the rebel beat and driven to shout its audacious attractions. As in the finest manifestations of the bop that won’t stop — both golden-era and neo-evocations […]
Slip that bottom dollar from your chained wallet, unwrinkle it, and bet confidently that the twangin’, sway-backed rockers of Speedbuggy USA will smoothly illustrate the real-country soul of rock’n’roll. As universal as dirt roads and street lamp-bathed boulevards. Recommended “Still […]
V/A Perfect For Parties, Vol. 3 How to spend Friday night at home without really staying home? After throwing this onto his disc player, he fell into an overstuffed chair and took a healthy pull on his whiskey. Easing […]
This is much more than only an undersung name from the neo-rockabilly early ’80s (“Justine”) rising anew, though that alone would be remarkable. The rollicking hijinx and rock’n’roll history command that made earlier waxings estimable breathes and jumps, still. Infectious, […]
Bloodshot is a quintessentially American label, an ocean-deep, mile-wide source of real sounds from real people. And these new label releases are exactly in that laudable company. The Bottle Rockets’ unerring pop sensibilities are sifted through woodgrain everyman experiential perspectives; […]
