Eagles of Death Metal

I Want You So Hard

At one time, this was a side project of Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age, but recently it almost seems like the roles have been reversed. I don't really blame him, as The Eagles of Death Metal just seem like a lot more fun. To begin with, they are neither "The Eagles" nor are they "Death Metal"… instead they come across kind of like The Buzzcocks meet The Rolling Stones, and all they will make you want to do is d-d-d-dance. Baby.

Death By Sexy

Downtown Records

Watch a video for I Only Want You!

Flaming Lips

The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

Flaming Lips are new Pink Floyd…or, more specifically, they are the Pink Floyd of the 21st century. As such, Soft Bulletin is their Dark Side of the Moon, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is Wish You Were Here, and At War With The Mystics is probably The Wall. So, yeah, they’re like Pink Floyd with less Nazis and more bunnies. Or I could just be talking crazy talk because I did too much LDS back in the 80's.

At War with the Mystics

Warner

Watch a video for Mr. Ambulance Driver here.

Huevos Rancheros

Interstate Death Toll

How does a band manage to sound like Calgary? In the 90's, Huevos Rancheros managed to catch lightning in a bottle, and not only achieved the perfect Calgary sound, but they also came to embody it. What was their recipe? Take some Link Wray and Dick Dale, add a generous portions of Agent Orange and Doug Sahm, and hey presto, Tex-algarian dirt surfing music of the highest order. Get Outta Dodge is Huevos Rancheros at their peak, and will serve you well in the summer months to come.

Get Outta Dodge

Mint

Huevos Rancheros have reunited and are playing a show at The Railway Club on Saturday, April 29th with Carolyn Mark. To warm up to what live-action love could ensue, watch a video here.

Hank Williams III

Thrown Out of the Bar

They say talent skips a generation, but then again, "they" say a lot of things, but in the case of the Williams family, it's pretty damn accurate. Hank III is the grandson of music legend Hank Williams Sr., and son of music embarrassment Hank Williams Jr. Apparently (and this is a good sign in my books) he doesn't get along with Daddy-o so well, but reveres his granddad. The resemblance between their voices is actually quite uncanny. Where they differ is Hank III's wholehearted embrace of all the things that killed Hank Sr. (and then some). Straight To Hell, as one might expect, is a paean to drugs and violence and the pigheaded unwillingness to ever get off of the road to damnation.

As an added bonus, he also throws a couple of haymakers in the general direction the whole Institutional Country scene to which his father belongs. It's good to know that Hank III is on our side.

Straight To Hell

Curb

Watch Hank III play Life of Sin live!

Various Artists

The Burning Sensations - Pablo Picasso

Twelve years ago, Alex Cox made one of the great Punk rock movies, probably the best one about Southern California in the early '80's (although Decline of Western Civilization Pt. 1 is pretty damn good too). Repo Man told the story of a young punk named Otto who managed to get mixed up with Repomen, psycho girls, aliens, television evangelists and the Feds. It was tons of fun and had an amazing soundtrack, featuring such bands as, Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, Iggy Pop, Suicidal Tendencies, Fear and The Plugz (to name a few). Nearly a decade and a half later, the film is still very entertaining, and the soundtrack stands as a worthy document of a bygone era.

The Repo Man Soundtrack

MCA

Bonus!!! Repo Man has just gotten the "Special Edition DVD" treatment with all sorts of cool extras. It will go just great with my special edition version of Alex Cox's Straight to Hell… which I lent to someone… I forget who… and none of my friends or family will ‘fess up that it's them.