Eclectic Vibes
by Andrew Frey
Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band - Greatest Hips Volume II
Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty BandGreatest Hips Volume II
Label: Self Released
YMBFBB’s live show captured here is saturated with shooting anthemic lyrics, crowd pleasing antics, mega grooves, a booty shakin’ brass section and an energetic audience. Six heady hard working musicians from Asheville, NC blow the doors off the joint through their elevated conflagration of musicianship and attendance participation. Find a sweet spot and ride out the jams man!
• Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band WebsiteYonder Mountain String Band - The Show
Yonder Mountain String BandThe Show
Label: Frog Pad Records
Sweet, clever, quaint, touching or zany this Colorado foursome continues to please by carrying on with their tradition of invigorating and infusing traditional bluegrass and stringed instrumentation with a swinging new rock n roll view. If you are lucky enough to have a chance, their live show will revitalize and renew as few do.
• Yonder Mountain String Band Website • Yonder Mountain String Band WikiElectric Six - Kill
Electric SixKill
Label: Metropolis Records
Another fun frolic into musical flamboyancy from these Detroit veterans of kitsch-n-roll. Brashly and boldly re-spinning their old disco punk methodology into a wisened vision of musical maturity results in Electric Six kicking ass again and again!
• Electric Six Website • Electric Six WikiGenitorturers - Blackheart Revolution
GenitorturersBlackheart Revolution
Label: Retribution Music
If Wendy O Williams sang for White Zombie you would have an inclination of the inspirational avenues pursued by this self proclaimed train wreck of decadence and debauchery. Once again tempting the tainted with their strong and groovy anthemic industrial metal that’s slicked, sticky and jazzed for success. Let’s go cum junkies!
• Genitorturers Website • Genitorturers WikiLittle Fyodor - Peace Is Boring
Little FyodorPeace Is Boring
Label: Public Eyesore Records
Claiming Denver as home this juggernaut of insanity has ranted and raved about his decidedly disenfranchised reality since at least 1981. Now, with fellow soothe sayer Babushka they explore 14 newly twisted avenues of totally snapped psycho punk rock including a couple revisioned classics. A mental calliope of grandeur and disillusionment for the children of the Subgenius.
• Little Fyodor Website • Little Fyodor WikiUnderworld Vs. The Misterons - Athens
Underworld Vs. The MisteronsAthens
Label: !K7 Records
A curious confusion of a compilation album with an experiment jazz mood crescendo. From Mahavishnu Orchestra to Roxy Music to Squarepusher, these trax range from danceable funk to trancing jazz and beyond. Underworld is back.
• Underworld Vs. The Misterons WebsiteCathy-Anne McClintock - Cathy-Anne McClintock
Cathy-Anne McClintockCathy-Anne McClintock
Label: 37 Records
Tumbling past her tenure in country band Tumbleweed, this singer songwriter enlists Tim O’Brien to enrapture a more folksy element of the modern country spectrum with her charm. Not my usual territory, but something caught my eye.
• Cathy-Anne McClintock WebsiteChinese Stars - Heaven On Speed Dial
Chinese StarsHeaven On Speed Dial
Label: Anchor Brain Records
Dissonant lubrications disjoint and realign at the sadistic whim of these overlords of musical funk-dissonance. Join this scramble for stability amidst the charming yet volatile excursions into dangerous anti-pop melodies grinning with smart ass punk taunting vocals.
• The Chinese Stars Website • The Chinese Stars WikiEOTO - Fire The Lazers!
EOTOFire The Lazers!
Label: Sci Fidelity Recordings
Immediately engulfing the listener in a womb of intensely perplexing otherworldly sounds “Fire The Lazers!” drinks from a dazzling selection of galaxy shaking electronic riffs and drum kit dips. The robust bass spectrum sounds rub and tickle your ears and body with a special nonchalant fervor. Michael Travis and Jason Hann (both String Cheese Incident alumnist’s) have birthed another quirky recorded masterpiece while maintaining their improvisational live performances.
• EOTO Website • EOTO WikiHeavy Trash - Midnight Soul Serenade
Heavy TrashMidnight Soul Serenade
Label: Big Legal Mess Records
Surfing through clever escapades into bluesy vintage rock as well as smirking garage punk sojourns. These creative juices again stratified by musical comrades Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray reek of dark mirth and flavorful kitsch.
• Heavy Trash Website • Heavy Trash WikiPassafire - Everyone On Everynight
PassafireEveryone On Everynight
Label: Law Records
A refreshingly colorful approach to utilizing the reggae vibe and riffs while expanding the overall flavor with jam, funk, prog and hard rock. Hooks that slide into your mind and sincere lyrics that pacify or antagonize as needed.
• Passafire WebsiteSlavic Soul Party - Taketron
Slavic Soul PartyTaketron
Label: Barbes Records
Meet the horny side of New York’s Balkan musical revolution which also includes Gogol Bordello and Balkan Beat Box. Brandishing a barrage of briskly driven Balkan rhythms the songs are funneled through their impressive 9 piece horn section formulating highly danceable jazz, funk and folk exercises.
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