Dolly Rocker Ragdoll I caught this dude’s show at the Buzzbin Last Friday Concert in July and was completely (and pleasantly) stunned to find out that someone from Canton is delivering such oozing, primal and bizarre blues-punk music. Onstage Dolly Rocker Ragdoll is a crazy mess of bright pink hair and vintage black clothes that accentuates his graveyard pallor. Banging away on a sweet-ass old Kay guitar and running it through a strange network of amps and ancient reverb, his music is primitive, noisy and spooky, reminding me of the whacked-out psychobilly of early Cramps and the fe...
The Matrimonials self-titled album opens with grandeur with a track called “Bobby 17 | 3.141593.” Why pi is relevant, I don’t know, but someone (who I can only assume is Bobby) shouts out a two-minute pseudo-sermon about three wise men. Lord knows what he’s talking about, but it certainly gets you pumped up for the next 18 tracks. The band’s music sounds like a cross between new and old punk. On songs like “In Cleveland” and “Bigboiz” they sound like the take influence from Sex Pistols and The Ramones. There’s a The Offspring and 311 feel on songs like “Suspiria....
Maid Myriad’s love for music has shone through their performances and they’ve been catching people’s attention that way since they hit the scene back in 2007. Oh, and they may just be my new favorite band. They tend to blanch at the thought of putting themselves into a genre. But when someone’s life is hypothetically in danger, singer Jeffrey Christopher Klemm admitted that he’d call them “alternative indie rock pop goodness with maybe a cherry on top.” Alternative being a new catch all term, they’re kind of the alternative to alternative, or what we coined “ultra-altern...
It was a night of glam and slam on stage this past Wednesday as two of punk rock’s founding fathers showcased their new creation, Batusis, at the Beachland Ballroom. Despite the deaths of Dolls greats Arthur Killer Kane and Johnny Thunders, and the Dead Boys’ Stiv Bators, the surviving leaders of those two bands are more than alive and kicking as they paid homage to their fallen comrades. Legendary Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome and New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain showed why they are still rocking three-plus decades later. The two were joined by onetime Cult drummer Lez W...
By Julia Kazar If you’re a Springsteen fan then you will definitely want to check out his new album/DVD combo. It’s a thirty song recording of a concert he did in Hyde Park London recently, and it’s aptly called London Calling: Live in Hyde Park by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The show opens with a cover of the classic Clash song “London Calling” and even though it’s not really the E Street Band’s style of music they make an honest attempt at the song. What makes it cool though is that at every Springsteen concert fans will throw requests on stage and at ...
By Julia Kazar Who says things are always bigger in Texas? North by Northeast (NXNE) was established as a response to the popular South by Southwest (SXSW) show that takes place in Austin Texas.Toronto, Canada will be invaded June 14th-20th by a ton of bands and fans alike. . 2010 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Iggy and the Stooges, will be one of the headliners of NXNE this year. Originally formed in 1967 they were instrumental in the development of punk music, as well as having a huge influence on rock, heavy metal and alternative rock music. Iggy and the band have been kn...
