A friend recently turned me on to a host of punk/scuzz pop bands, perhaps payback time for turning him on to
Sudden Ensemble last year. Hailing from Anaheim, CA (home of the evil ABC/Disney/Mickey Mouse World Dominition HQ),
The Willowz (above, left) have released
Talk In Circles (on
Sympathy For The Record Industry,
top left) mixing primitive garage fuzz with scruffy screaming scrawl (need proof? try
Unveil), which the musically-clueless
Rolling Stone magazine compared to the ilk of
Brian Wilson and
The Beach Boys--
huh??? Meanwhile,
Demon's Claws, Memphis-by-way-of-Montreal blues rawk takes the legacy of bands such as
The Oblivions,
The Gun Club and other booze-addled fuck-ups and pushes the envelope to its logical conclusion--in short, they're anything but
Laid Back. (Buy it at
Dead Canary Records.) Finally, we end with
The Casual Dots, alum of such indie punk royalty as
Slant 6, The Frumpies and the mighty mighty
Bikini Kill. The 'Dots self-titled debut is all upbeat energy and high-spirited sloppiness, which is all well and good, but how can you not like a song called
Mama's Gonna Make Us A Cake? (Purchase it at
Kill Rock Stars.)
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