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“Revolution!” fro Boston’s Damone brings me back to the 80’s when Lita Ford was hot, but this brings a new twist to the chick rock theme. A hard, glam-metal sound with screaming gang vocals and catchy guitar riffs on a song that is fun, energetic and compelling. Rawk!!
Damone
“Revolution!” (download mp3)
from “adidas / MLS Represent – Rock The Pitch”
(Adidas/MLS)
“Revolution!“ (play)
Oh hell yah. Hard rock from somewhere between Iggy and the Stooges and some kind of LA mod power pop. Just my kinda medicine. The Jigsaw Scene goes where the action isn’t, and brings the party.
The Jigsaw Seen
“Where the Action Isn’t” (download mp3)
from “Bananas Foster”
(Vibro-phonic)
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Once in Jr. High this disco kitty sez to me, “you like that hard rock sh!t, huh?” But yes, I did. Fraze Gang is a trio who loves them some 80′s glam – the kind whose tour buses ran exclusively on hair spray and whiskey. This is a fun track of the sort we never thought we’d hear again. But what is old is new, and what is new is old in pop, and here is the ghost of hair bands past in fine form. It’s a kick to hear this kind of epic guitar work and redonkulous rawk singing in 2010. So in best my David Lee Roth I say.. Enjooiiiiyy!!!
Fraze Gang
“Juggernaut” (mp3)
from “Juggernaut”
(Bongo Beat Records)
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The Sons Of Hercules – “Brain Dead” mp3
Rock is not always pretty. Rock often crawls out from a sweaty, dirty place in the unglamorous depths of depravity. The Sons Of Hercules play rock like it’s still dangerous, like there’s going to be hell to pay. This is the polar opposite of today’s inoculated mainstream. This is balls out rock played by five San Antonio, Texas music vets who sound rather like The Stooges jamming with Lynyrd Skynyrd at AC/DC’s house. Play loud with beer.
The Sons Of Hercules
“Brain Dead” (mp3)
from “A Different Kind of Ugly”
(Saustex Media)
Before heavy metal was called “metal” and got all speeded up, it sounded heavy – like great shards of metal colliding and melting together in the sky. Loving Thunder‘s music is like that. This sonically massive title track from their “Photographing the Wild” album is a stunner. Very Seattle in the guitar department. There’s still something in the water there which makes electric guitars sound more beastly and immense. The drums and riffs are more Zep than Nirvana, and the vocal is delivered in a beautifully creepy octave harmony like monks gone to the dark side. A quote on their myspace says simply, “The future, as envisioned by teenage stoners, in the 70′s.” Pretty f00kin accurate.
Loving Thunder
“Photographing the Wild” (download mp3)
from “Photographing the Wild”
(Hot Dog City Record Co.)
“Photographing the Wild“ (play)