Well Rome’s premier killed by death purveyors, TAXI, have came a long way since Dead Beat released their debut LP/CD ‘Like A Dog’ in February of 2003. This debut recieved some phenomenal press from a band that, to many, seemed to have literaly come out of nowhere. Pretty much unknow when that debut was released, their international fan base has grown immensely in the past year and a half. Read the rest of this entry »

by Mike DaRonco
The Boss Martians’ style of ’60s-influenced guitar pop was debuted in 1995 upon the release of their first self-titled full-length on Dionysus Records. Accompanied by an influence of Paul Revere & the Raiders, the Beach Boys, the Trashmen and the Astronauts, the Seattle natives also had the chance to scatter several singles throughout the years on various different labels before their second album, 13 Evil Tales, came out in 1996. But it wasn’t until 1998 that the Boss Martians had the chance to branch outside of America with a tour of Europe that summer. After 2000’s Move, they signed with MuSick Recordings, releasing 2002’s Making the Rounds and 2004’s The Set-Up. “I Am Your Radio,” from the latter album, won the listener-driven “Coolest Song of the Year” contest on Little Steven’s Underground Garage radio program.

LAS VEGAS WEEKLY
Reminiscent of Elvis Costello’s Angry Young Man period, meaning the good Elvis Costello, this group kicks ass, from “I Am Your Radio” (voted Coolest Song of 2003 by Little Steven’s Underground Garage) to the disc’s last, titular track. Start listening now and hold bragging rights over your friends for years to come. (Martin Stein) Read the rest of this entry »

The Devastations formed in Melbourne, Australia in September 2002. After just 4 gigs they joined UK band, Tindersticks, on their Australian tour, and their reputation further enhanced with support from legendary Birthday Party guitarist, Rowland S. Howard, who was moved to write an insightful and lengthy article on the band in the Australian press, as well as join them from time to time onstage. Read the rest of this entry »

Interview with Rowland S. Howard

The DEVASTATIONS are: the sound of a meteor cooling in the cut grass; the clash of a terrible beauty with the customary; Tom Carlyon, Hugo Cran, Conrad Standish.
This is what happened. Read the rest of this entry »

“Look man, I’m not a liberator, I am an entertainer!”

Joss Hutton, Philippe Korpar-Migrenne and Ski Williams chewed the “Bacon Fat” with one of R&B’s wildest, Andre “Mr Rhythm” Willliams. Over the past forty years, Bessamer, Alabama-born Andre Williams has written, recorded and produced some of the most ribald (“Humpin’, Bumpin’ & Thumpin’”), infectious (“Rib Tips”) and downright bizarre (“Please Pass The Biscuits”) R&B ever committed to vinyl. Read the rest of this entry »

Andre Williams doesn’t mince words. He doesn’t have time for that. He’s seen a promising R&B career go up in smoke, he’s fallen victim to drug addiction, and he’s spent more time hustling his way out of the gutter than he’d care to remember. So when this resuscitated soul man sings, he sings of his urges, in the most blatant terms. Read the rest of this entry »

?U odnosu na Andrea Williamsa Little Richard zvu?i kao Pat Boone? Lux Interior (THE CRAMPS)

Black Godfather je ?56. imao hit na US R?n?B top ten ? ?Bacon Fat?. Sledile su ?Greasy Chicken?, ?Humpin, Bumpin? & Thumpin?? (nedavno ?pozajmljena? od Fat Boy Slima!!), ?Rib Tips?, ?Please Pass The Biscuits?, ?Jail Bait?? Read the rest of this entry »

BASSHOLES + MONSIEUR JEFFREY EVANS: february 18th – belgrade @ akademija (support bands: petrol + gangbangers) + february 19th – novi sad @ enter (support bands: korozija + ns pistols)

BBQ + THE MOJOMATICS: april 21st – kosovska mitrovica @ paladijum (support band: hosenfefer), april 22nd – belgrade @ akademija (support bands: darko d?ambasov + irfan muertes) + april 23rd – novi sad @ enter (support band: dmt)

GREEN HORNET: april 29th – novi sad @ enter (support band: corrosion), april 30th – pirot @ sala pedago?ke akademije + may 1st – belgrade @ dom omladine

THE DIRTBOMBS: june 3rd – zagreb @ kset + june 4th – belgrade @ dom omladine

NOMEANSNO: july 4th – belgrade @ skc

THE SONIC ANGELS: august 13th – senta @ mojo

JOHN SCHOOLEY & HIS ONE MAN BAND + THE GUILTY HEARTS: october 1st – senta @ mojo + october 2nd – belgrade @ dom omladine (support band: ventolin)

KID CONGO POWERS & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS: november 26th – zagreb @ skuc + november 27th – belgrade @ skc

HARD-ONS: december 6th – novi sad @ ns time + 7th – belgrade @ skc

SPEEDBUGGY: january 21st – belgrade @ dom omladine, january 22nd – kragujevac @ kutija ?ibica, january 23rd – mol @ anu?ka + january 24th – senta @ mojo

HIC ET NUNC: march 4th – belgrade @ dom omladine, march 5th – zrenjanin @ mali gong, march 6th – senta @ mojo + march 7th – kragujevac @ kutija ?ibica

D.R.I.: april 29th – kru?evac, april 30th – belgrade @ dom omladine, may 1st – sarajevo, may 2nd – zagreb @ mo?vara + may 4th – ljubljana @ gala hala

THE BABIES: may 7th – kragujevac @ skc + may 8th – zrenjanin @ mali gong

DEAD MOON: may 8th – belgrade @ dom omladine (support band: dmt)

THE EGOS: may 12th – belgrade @ dom omladine, may 13th – kragujevac @ kutija ?ibica (support band: hosenfefer) + may 14th – senta @ mojo (support band: hosenfefer)

BOB LOG III: may 16th – kragujevac @ kutija ?ibica, may 17th – belgrade @dom omladine + may 18th – sombor @ akvarijum

RAMONETTES: september 24th – smederevska palanka @ konak, september 25th – senta @ mojo, september 26th – zrenjanin @ zanzibar, september 27th – ?uprija @ bulevar, september 28th – kosovska mitrovica @ ex-ponto (support band: hosenfefer), september 29th – kragujevac @ kutija ?ibica, september 30th – belgrade @ akademija, october 1st – po?arevac @ kb, october 2nd – novi sad @ dublin (support band: ns pistols), october 4th – belgrade @ riverboat ‘catastrophy’, october 5th – travnik @ alterart, october 6th – vara?din @ rogoz, october 7th – ljubljana @ orto bar, october 8th – velenje @ mc + october 9th – trbovlje @ dom svobode

THE BABIES: october 15th – belgrade @ akademija + october 16th – senta @ mojo (support band: concrete worms)

BOSS MARTIANS: november 6th – novi sad @ scena (support bands: red union + korozija) + november 7th – belgrade @ akademija

THE SCIENTISTS: november 10th – belgrade @ akademija + november 11th – zagreb @ kset (support band: the babies)

KOROZIJA: december 29th (support band: pope?itelji)

THE HANGMEN: january 18th – senta @ mojo + january 19th – belgrade @ dom omladine (support band: dmt) Read the rest of this entry »

SPEEDBUGGY, USA: september 15th – novi sad @ ns time (support band: dmt) + september 16th – belgrade @ dom omladine (support band: ventolin) Read the rest of this entry »

COSMIC PSYCHOS: september 29th – belgrade @ skc (support band: borise decko borise) + october 2nd – novi sad @ scena (support bands: concrete worms + dmt) Read the rest of this entry »

A punk guitar album? Well, in its purest form that is what The Good * The Bad * The Ugly is and why it is such an outstanding disc.

Each track here is constructed around Vincent’s expert ability to craft old-school punk hooks – the ones that made his original band the Testors such a well known name amongst serious punks – and a solid back-up band of The Stooges’ Scott Asheton on drums and The Damned’s Captain Sensible on Bass. Originally, the concept was to keep it to the trio of Vincent, Asheton, and Sensible. But after the basic tracks had been recorded, Vincent decided to bring on board some of punks most notable guitarists from past and present to give the songs an extra kick in the arse. When it works, it sounds incredible such as on “That Sound” which features Captain Sensible, Dexter Holland of The Offspring, and Tony Fate of the Bellrays. Even “Skag,” which comes across more as a straight up rock tune, works nicely with Wayne Kramer of the MC5 laying down a signature solo. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1984 The Scientists exchanged a promising future as Australian ?pub rock? icons for relative obscurity in Britain, all on the strength of one glowing review of their Mini LP ?Blood Red River? from NME?s Barney Hoskins. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a brief outline of Sonny Vincent’s history, to some it may read like the perfect script for a movie about a Rock’n'Roll desperado on his way to becoming an icon. But this story is not from any movie folks or about any media hype, it’s about the real thing? A real rock’n'roll hero with the passion, the energy and the feeling. Read the rest of this entry »

by Tom Schulte
Often very much akin to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, especially in the vocal delivery, this group takes a more deconstructivist view toward their alt-soul material. That is, they go in for a less full sound with a more skeletal arrangement that allows space between one accentuating burst and another. Uptight is a loose and raw storybook album of decadence and discovery with lyric content that crosses Jim Thompson and J.D. Salinger for an outsider, urban noir.

It’s no wonder The Blackout sounds familiar. Not only does Speedball Baby revel in the basic elements of rockabilly and blues-punk much like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion does, but two Jon Spencer Blues Explosion members play on this album. Jon Spencer and Judah Bauer are credited for having written the best songs, too: “Wanna Scratch It?” and “Do the Blackout,” respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

Tav Falco first felt the twinges of musical inspiration growing up in rural Arkansas, where he was drawn to the rustic blues and jazz forms that abounded in the Mississippi Delta area. While working as a brakeman on the Missouri Pacific railroad, Falco would hop rides into Memphis- where ?music was just in the air,? Falco remembers-to hear legendary country blues men like Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White, Furry Lewis, Fred McDowell and Houstan Stackhouse. Read the rest of this entry »

?ikica Simi?

Razne subkulturalne skupine su plesale “horizontalni mambo” sa bluzom. Orgije su se uvek, kao ?to dolikuje, zavr?avale orgazmi?kim trijumfom. Pegavi, rahiti?ni engleski de?aci, gladni svega u posleratnoj bedi, ?ezdestih godina pro?log veka su, igraju?i skaredni ples sa bluzom izmislili muziku koju volimo. Se?ate se Rolingstounsa, Enimalsa, Jardberdsa, sastava Krim. Sli?ne posledice imao je susret bele, vaspovske (WASP), ju?nja?ke omladine sa ovim “crnim” muzi?kim idiomom: Olmen braders bend, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wet Willie. Nedavno, poigravaju?i se bluzom, D?ek i Meg Vajt su spasili rok muziku najavljene smrti. Da je to mogu?e nekoliko godina ranije je nagovestio D?on Spenser. Read the rest of this entry »

Q: Listening to your album, Bukka White’s Memphis Hot Shoes” comes to mind. Does he have any influence on you?
A: I like Bukka. He plays fast & jumpy. Bukka got teeth.

Q: How did you come up with the idea of wearing a helmet?
A: It just feels right. Try it. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently a scientist (a real one) asked me what the deal was with the Scientists early stuff. He liked everything post “Swampland” but wasn’t sure about the lyrics in all those early songs with titles like “That Girl”, “Girl” and “Pretty Girl”. My answer was that I didn’t write those lyrics. The songs were written thus: James Baker, the original Scientists drummer, would announce that he had a song and “sing” the lyrics for me to play back to him. From his atonal renderings I would invent a melody with an appropriate chord sequence and perform it, to which he would say, “Yeah, that’s how it goes” or, “No, not like that”, if he didn’t like it. In defence of James’ lyrics, the “girl songs” were part of his celebration of rock and roll of which dumb lyrics were, as far as we were concerned, “de rigueur” along with other things not normally revered, like playing too loud, posturing and “not giving a shit”. Read the rest of this entry »

To look at the career of the Scientists is, in essence, to look at the career of Kim Salmon, one of the most vibrant musical talents to emerge from Australia in the 1970s. Not that he was the only one. Nick Cave, for example, may have made more of a splash outside of the country, but Salmon is arguably just as important ? if not more influential. His first group, formed in 1976, was the Cheap Nasties ? which already gives some indication of his distinctive “trash” aesthetic (? la the Trashmen, the Ramones, etc.). The Nasties were the first punk band to emerge from the remote city of Perth in Western Australia. Salmon has claimed they really weren’t much good, but they did give birth to the Perth punk scene ? from which many of Australia’s finest musicians would emerge. When the Nasties came to an end the following year, Salmon went on to join the Invaders. The Scientists rose from the ashes of this (also unrecorded) band in 1978. The lineup included Salmon on guitar and vocals, Boris Sujdovic on bass, Rod Radalj on guitar, and James Baker, from the Victims, on drums and lyrics. Membership in the Scientists would mutate several times over the years (Dennis Byrne, for instance, would soon assume bass duties). Read the rest of this entry »

When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born.

It’s my own personal style, see,” Log says, “the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.” Read the rest of this entry »

by Kortney Jmaeff (April 2003)

When uttering the words “Best Canadian Power Trio”, most plebian Canucks would primarily envisage Rush. For my money, however, the throaty bellows, funky distorted bass lines and battle-axe guitar choppings of Nomeansno slay Geddy’s cat-in-in-a-lawnmower vocals, cheesy magniloquent synthesizers, sci-fi dungeon and dragon ramblings any day of the week.
For over two decades, Victorian trio Nomeansno have journeyed the globe, recorded over 10 albums, and spawned a cult side group, the Slapshot and the Ramones inspired Hanson Brothers. A band that has the tenaciousness to cover both a Ramones and a Miles Davis song on the same release deserves a scrupulous perusal. Read the rest of this entry »