In 1986, a time when roots rock bands were struggling to sound as lean and scrappy as possible, one of the things that separated the BoDeans from the rest of the pack was their willingness to wear their hearts on their sleeves and fuse a romantic sensibility (albeit one with both feet planted firmly on the ground) with simple but potent guitar-based rock & roll, and they never did it better than on their first album, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams. On "The Strangest Thing," Sam Llanas ends hi...   [ read more ]

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After about a decade of issuing recordings, Sex Mob finally released an album in their natural element: live. The albums are great, no doubt about that, but anyone who has seen Sex Mob in action knows that's where they really thrive. It's also a nice contrast since the studio albums all employ at least a bit of studio production tricks (courtesy of Scotty Hard) but that can't be done for a real live album. So here they are in Switzerland, at the Willisau Jazz Festival in 2006 with old friend {$...   [ read more ]

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Blackpool post-punks Zanti Misfitz (named after a 1963 episode of the old TV anthology series {#The Outer Limits}) managed a couple singles and an EP on the minor indie Clay Records before breaking up and eventually transmogrifying into a rather different psychobilly act called the Turnpike Cruisers. Though the band remains a going concern to this day -- Blackpool being a legendarily tacky coastside tourist town where a live rock & roll revival act can make a decent living playing '50s faves to ag...   [ read more ]

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