What's the score?

We're half way through 2010, what has this year brought me? Items released this year adds up to 41, that's thirteen LP's, twentyfive 7"s, two 12"s and one 10". Zooming in on the LP's, there are 3 comps ( Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas, Our Boy Roy and Party Platter. And there's three albums from the old days; Tunnel Of Love, Range Rats (pre Dead Moon) and The Outsiders. From the bands that released albums this year I'm gonna pick Capputtini il Lignu a duo from Italy/France. Cheb Samir's on vocals, guitar and drums, Cri on vocals and guitar. Blues is what this all about. There's the more traditional approach on some tracks, repeating mid-tempo songs, nothing to brag about, but solid. On "Bite In The Neck Blues" they gear up to the next level, a raw stomping beat, great riffs, dark voxs. "Wang Dang Doodle" is a fantastic hipshaker. In the end this is a real fun album, enough variation to keep my attention.
It's released on Jeetkune Records from Italy.

Magnetix split with Digger and the Pussycats

I'm a BIG fan of Magnetix, a French two piece outfit, releasing records since 2000. A couple of mounths ago I found out that they released a split 10" with Digger and the Pussycats on Every Night Is A Saturday in 2007. I found the label, nowadays located in Australia and after some mailcontact we got a deal. Three weeks later the record arrived!! And what a great record it is, that is the Magnetix side. I don't care about Digger..., I saw them live a few years back and that was awesome, but their records don't do it for me. The Magnetix however are mindblowing on every release they put out. Totally in the red guitars by Looch Vibrato, who's also singing, beats and backing vocals by Aggy Sonora. Great songs, amazing riffs and in the case of this release, fantastic organ makes me wanna dance and party all night!! Go check out some tunes on their MySpace . For a good overview of their releases check Grunnenrocks

Tunnel Of Love

For a while Bazooka Joe was spamming his Facebook friends with his new label, Black Gladiator: he was gonna put out some great records; Tunnel Of Love lp and a 7" by Rex Ruffin and the Lo-Fi Jerkheads. Tunnel Of Love "Rockin'Rollin'Bitches" was released on cd in 2002 and now, for the first time it's available on vinyl. Joe was pretty sure this is THEE punk-release of 2010. His label is connected to Slovenly Recordings and in my world that's a great label. So, when my dealer had it in the upcoming lists I ordered it. And man, was I blown away by this record. 14 tracks clocking at 25 minutes. And IMHO just punk doesn't do it right. It's true basement punk, rockin' hard. It's no hardcore, I'm not into that, but hell, this is dirty punk'n'roll. You can check 'em out on their myspace, or their own site but it doesn't do 'em well, it sounds great from vinyl. Go get the record if you're into Oblivians, AC/DC, Guitar Wolf... Joe, you were right, thanx!!!