Hayseed Dixie

By Sid | March 1, 2008 10:58 am |
Categories:
Folk,Rock

A band from Tribute section.

HYS_1

Hayseed Dixie started as a country act but had really not much success, at some point they decided to change the style and cover some rock tunes. Replacing Oi with Oink and Hot with Hellyeah. That definitely changed their career and their name (which is actually a parody of AC-DC).

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Their first two albums were complete tributes to Ac-Dc and KISS in 2001 and 2003, covering the best songs of these rock-n-roll legends in awesome bluegrass style. They also had a record covering various tunes from the 70th. On their next releases “Let there be Rockgrass” and “A hot piece of grass” they included some of their own compositions and had much broader cover scope. Now no one was safe from the bluegrass havoc. Green Day, Queen, Motorhead, Misfits, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and even Outcast can be found on these plates. Two new records also were released in 2006 and 2007 . The 2007 album “Weapons of Grass Destruction” is just spectacular, still I think nothing beats their first Ac Dc tribute.

Eagles Of Death Metal

By Sid | February 16, 2008 12:31 pm |
Categories:
Indie,Rock

Everything about this band is a joke. The name is a joke, the music is a joke, they even look like a 80th gay image joke. But still they are cool.

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The band was formed in Palm Desert as a project of Jesse “The Devil” Hughes and Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age, KYUSS). Josh, who by the way is one of the key figures in Palm Desert scene and one of the main people in stoner rock revival, always said that everything in the band is made with the immense talent of Jesse, and he is only playing drums and producing the records.

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They have two albums so far “Peace, Love And Death Metal” and “Death By Sexy”. The death metal actually comes from a situation when a drunk guy somewhere told Jesse that Rolling Stones are real death metal. Kind of really wasted sense of music. Their music is a mix of simple garage rock clichés and the attitude of we-will-never-play stadiums-but-still-thank-you-Donnington bands. Both of the albums have got some air play and lot of attention from advertising, ‘cause Jesse is a real genius of catchy lo-fi vintage rock-n-roll tunes.

Mad Marge and the Stonecutters

By Sid | January 29, 2008 8:21 am |
Categories:
Rock

Mad Marge and the Stonecutters

Psychobilly or Psycho was born in GB in late 70th. It was like music for people who considered rockabilly to soft and punk – to simple. Originally it is a simple mix of rockabilly with punk guitars and lyrics mostly about horror movies and related stuff.

Mad Marge and the Stonecutters

This band is one of the examples of best modern underground psycho bands. It is way better that dozens of newcomers on these scene and even some of the old school feelas. The stonecutters play very catchy and danceable psycho/rockabilly and Mad Marge presents one of the most spectacular voices I ever heard in psycho. She’s the exact mix of the retro singing techniques with rude punk approach, perfectly holding the balance between these two styles.

Their 2005 debut “Mad Marge and The Stonecutters” kicks off right from the first song “Monsters” and just swings into a whirlwind of hot-rods, rock-n-roll and black humor. While many of the modern bands still keep searching for some new sound, bands like this present the things that were making people crazy for fifty years. With a little modern twist of course.

The Detroit Cobras

By Sid | October 5, 2007 2:40 pm |
Categories:
Indie,Rock

You know there are bands that deserve a big “Wow!” placed in the beginning of the review.

The Detroit Cobras deserve four for every one of their 4 albums. Their style is something like retro-rock or garage rock or 60th or 50th of 70th with a little bit of indie.

The Detroit Cobras

This is like Marty McFly from Back to Future 1 running into Quentin Tarantino’s soundtracks but fronted by awesome female singer. It’s rock and roll played in an old garage with all the twist from the 60th and in the last album even with spiced with jazz and soul.

The plates you need to find are called: Life, Love And Leaving (2001), Baby (2005) and the last album Tied & True (2007). The first two are more of a garage sound and can be perfect for a retro party and the last one is like a real pearl of the modern music. Fueled by some more professional sound it still possesses this groove that shook the world like 40 years ago. These dudes can be respected just for keeping this groove.

Murder by Death

By Sid | September 27, 2007 12:03 pm |
Categories:
Folk,Indie,Rock

Actually a bad name for a band. When I first heard it I thought it would be some stupid and mean metal but the first notes of their last and best work so far “In Bocca Al Lupo” really changed my opinion. So what is actually so special about these guys?

Murder by Death

Murder by Death combines two very important things. First the atmosphere and second the intelligence. The style can be described as indie-folk-rock. But really they mix together some of the finest indie-rock with folk stuff similar to east European folk and pirate ballads and also adding some parts of country and jazz. The cello makes these elements mix together as a spectacular brew. Everything is connected but every next song gives you a completely new experience of what is called music. One album can begin with some pirate ship atmosphere and end as a relaxing jazz evening.

Murder by Death

The earlier works are also interesting but still nothing can be compared to this album. As a single line I can describe them as: “Reinventing the music with a cello”.


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