ROUnD-UP: Sleaze
Cavemen: chaotic, nihilistic and effortlessly obnoxious.
Cavemen Nuke Earth slOvenly
remember that time alice cooper yanked a panicked chicken out of a pillowcase and threw it into a rabid crowd of drug-crazed creeps who tore it limb from limb in a moment of unbridled bloodlust? nuke earth is that moment, a shower of blood and feathers and screaming, blown-out, speaker-rattling rock’n’roll madness.
These cavemen are from new zealand and they sound sorta like The mummies or maybe like the mc5 through a broken walkie-talkie. Highlights of the album are numerous and pulverising and surely include the spittle-flying supersonic daredevilry of elvis is alive, the full-tilt gonzo lust For evil and the thrashy headache-maker Don’t Wanna Hang.
a perfectly chaotic, nihilistic and effortlessly obnoxious follow-up to their alarming 2016 debut. The cavemen are very clearly the reigning kings of Trash.
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unholy Preachers Fuckin’ Amen Baby
tHeunHOlyPreaCHers.BandCaMP.COM straight outta Prague, Unholy Preachers belch up a quartet of lean
’n’ mean action rockers here that sound like Judas Priest jamming on apocalypse
Dudes-era Turbonegro somewhere near the rim of hell while bikini girls with machine-guns writhe and twirl. leather, studs, booze, porn, guitars, the devil, you get it.
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Wild Savages Stagefright WIldsavages.BandCaMP.COM
ann arbor motor-rockers Wild savages might be the only band currently in operation that perfectly embody the sort of free-flowing, highway-burning, evilhippie biker-rock groove of steppenwolf in their gas-guzzling prime. Whatever your version of wild and free is, this album is the magic carpet ride that’s gonna get you there.
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Last Great Dreamers 13th Floor Renegades WWW.lastgreatdreaMers.COM
Born 10 years too late to join in the bedraggled post-Hanoi Brit-glam orgy, last great Dreamers were long-lost 90s power-poppers but they recently reunited for another round or two. 13th
Floor renegades finds ‘em in fine form, plying chiming, hook-heavy, lost-in-a-seaof-scarves rock’n’roll that’s half Big star and half starz. good and gooey.
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Snotrockett Trashed WWW.snOtrOCKett.BandCaMP.COM
While the remarkably snarly What gives is snotrockett’s finest moment, the entire
Trashed eP does a pretty great job of dragging you around face-first in the stale-beer-and-cigarette-butts muck of loud and sleazy dive-bar rock’n’roll. if Johnny Thunders didn’t already die for your sins, these dudes woulda been happy to do it.
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