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Grady’s “Boots Or Hearts” falls apart gloriously

Grady -”Boots Or Hearts”

“Like boots or hearts, when they start, they really fall apart,” sings Grady. Excellent lyric. Add grit-swallowing, gut-churning, soul-vomiting guitar work, and some damned to sh!t wicked sexadelic southern rawk vocals, and, well, I’m diggin’ it. I think you will too. Tha’s wha’m here fer! Enjoy with Jack and Coke or similar. As eclectic Texas music vet Gordie ‘Grady’ Johnson Gordie Johnson puts it, “This record really is the byproduct of the musical environment we live in. Cowboys, metalheads, rednecks and punk rockers all congregate around us. Someone actually described us as ’shredneck’ which of course brought gales of laughter.” Makes sense when you hear it. This track is killer. That’s all.

Good As DeadGrady
“Boots Or Hearts” (mp3)
from “Good As Dead”
(C12 Records)

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The Cassettes Go Big

The Cassettes – “Countach”

With a vocal yowl favorably reminiscent of Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs and Robert Plant, and music in a neighborhood stalked by the likes of T-Rex, Hot Snakes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and even Turbonegro, The Cassettes love their hard rock and love it well. Soaring guitar work, solid rawk drumming, and an ornery, sincere ferocity all add up to a brilliant sonic outburst. Cool lyrics, GR8 sound.

CountachThe Cassettes
“Countach” (mp3)
from “Countach”
(Carcrash Records)

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Bad Acid Trip’s secrets for workplace harmony

Bad Acid Trip – “Symbiotic Slavery”

Oh my. Do we find songs that sound like the Dead Kennedys and King Crimson having Tourettes attacks at GWAR’s house every fine morning? No we do not, Dorothy. This mp3 delivers what one would want from a band called Bad Acid Trip. “Symbiotic Slavery” is dangerous and subversive and should not be played under any circumstances. Return to your cubicle and listen to Michael Bolton. Nothing to see here. My arms turn to eels as the fax machine spits hot lava, singing Wagner. Perhaps I will go to Burning Man this year after all.

Symbiotic SlaveryBad Acid Trip
“Symbiotic Slavery” (mp3)
from “Symbiotic Slavery”
(Serjical Strike Records)

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“So Alone” never sounded so good

Nik Phillips – “So Alone”

Aussie singer-songwriter Nik Phillips wields a large palette, with which he paints fearlessly. Recklessly even, and I mean that in a good way. The starkly titled “So Alone” rips through a dark empty room, illuminating the spidery corners with a wondrous spectrum. There is light, but can anyone see it? Summer of love fluffy barefoot music this is not! Mind bending power-pop prog-rock this is. Psychedelic music with teeth.

Nik PhillipsNik Phillips
“So Alone” (mp3)
from “Nik Phillips”
(IMI)

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