Tokyo Sex Destruction – “The Sounds From Your Soul” mp3
Another soulful hard rocker from Tokyo Sex Destruction (from Spain, don’t you know). Drawing inspiration from the 80’s punk-funk of Gang Of Four (haven’t they become a major influence on contemporary music!) and other more rootsy elements like The Zombies and The Stones, they manage to produce a sound of their own, and it rocks. “The Sounds from Your Soul” baby. Hit it and quit it.
Tokyo Sex Destruction
“The Sounds from Your Soul” (mp3)
from “The Neighbourhood”
(BCore Disc)
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Saviours – “We Roam” mp3
What do you expect from a band called Saviours whose record cover involves demons, naked devil chicks and general quasi-biblical mayhem? If you guessed stoner-metal meets speed-metal meets black-metal a’la Sabbath meets Exodus but completely contemporary and exquisitely executed, you win! This kicks buckets of ass. Saviours hail (Satan) from my hometown of Oakland, CA, which has (not so) quietly become the epicenter of a new metal renaissance. Go forth and bang thy head.
Saviours
“We Roam” (mp3)
from “Accelerated Living”
(Kemado)
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Freddy Kelly – “Then I Met You” mp3
More vintage Northern Soul! Completely puerile, innocent and bouncy, naive lust/love/like fare. What could be better, on a nice rainy Saturday? Freddy Kelly was an artist on Detroit’s gr8 indie label of the 50’s and 60’s, Twirl Records. The horn section work on this track is to die for, as are the teen-beat tom-tom fills, and the vocal, which soars nicely over the top like a food-colored maraschino cherry on a mound of sugar and cream. The key change up a whole step to set up the last verse is such a perfect cliché, you’d miss it if it weren’t there. Looking forward to hearing more from these Twirl Records comps. This is pop.
Freddy Kelly
“Then I Met You” (mp3)
from “Twirl Records Story Volume 1″
(Twirl Records)
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Dengue Fever – “Sober Driver” mp3
Last year I wrote a post about Dengue Fever’s revival and revision of early Cambodian rock n’ roll. Initial reaction for most of us is, “Early Cambodian rock n’ roll?” Why yes, Dorothy. The story, now widely covered, has reached every corner of the globe, and the band, signed to Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records has graduated from musicologist’s curiosity to legitimate international success. They sell out shows everywhere and they’ve stretched out into new directions, expanding their Khmer / English crossover to disco, dancehall, and any other form they care to play with. This late night duet between a drunken lass and her sober, fed up BF, “Sober Driver,” is a tightly rehearsed, softly swaggering, and truly international music potion. Drink up.
Dengue Fever
“Sober Driver” (mp3)
from “Venus on Earth”
(M80)
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