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BLACK BANANAS: RAD TIMES XPRESS IV

March 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment

There’s something both exciting and familiar about this album’s sound, which hearkens to that period in the 80s where George Clinton and Zapp were making way for Prince, albeit with backward-masked sounding guitars and plenty of leftover hair metal vibe. This is the rock of party vans and melted 8-tracks.

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DEC. 14: LA SERA + MAGIC WANDS + JENNIFER HERREMA

December 14th, 2011 · No Comments

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MP3: RTX (COVERING PENTAGRAM)

November 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

dan monick Vampyre Love (Ultra Live) by RTX Planet Earth’s mighty RTX surge forth with this “ultra live” Pentagram cover recorded on a camcorder at an old Safari Sam’s show with Easy Action and No Age. This will be coming out on a special one-sided 7″ on Outlaw but you can listen above, and while [...]

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NEW YORK DOLLS @ THE HENRY FONDA

May 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Sure, the dead band members outnumber the living ones at this point, and David Johansen seemed more than a little tired, and Sylvain Sylvain has nearly morphed into a combination of Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. But to their everlasting artistic credit, they insisted on playing half a set of newish material, and that new material was 100% damned good. A few songs sounded a bit like the sweet street-tough material from David Johansen’s solo career, but even tighter and poppier, a little more Lou Reed than Shadow Morton. And they even made sure to evoke their dead brethren by opening “Lonely Planet Boy” with a full chorus of Johnny Thunders’ “Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory.”

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RTX: YOU STARTED THIS PARTY!

October 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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