DOWNLOAD: Bosco Delrey - Baby's Got A Blue Flame
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Bosco Delrey, a New Jersey artist by way of Memphis, brings his hometown's musical legacy into the 21st century on "Baby's Got A Blue Flame." Like a technological Carl Perkins, Bosco updates the classic Sun Records proto rock sound with a Mad Decent mindset, matching reverberated whistles and a rhythmic rockabilly chug with cascading synthesizer arpeggios. The track's rolling bass lines provide an anchor for an energetic vocal performance and enough experimentation to make things seem new. Bosco Delrey's new album Everybody Wah is available now.
DOWNLOAD: John Paul Keith - Afraid To Look
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The best musicians always seem to have grown up in church in one of two ways: prepubescent basement shows, or early vocal training via gospel choir. John Paul Keith falls into the latter, but he wouldn't be entirely out of place in the former. A Knoxville native who ended up making his mark after moving to Memphis, Keith plays a blend of soul, rockabilly and jazz driven by a garage rock feel at its core. "Afraid To Look" recalls a more concise, less psych-heavy Brian Jonestown, and spots on tour with Lucero and Jack Oblivian serve as perfect footnotes to his sound. New LP The Man That Time Forgot will be out June 21 on Big Legal Mess via Fat Possum.
John Paul Keith - Afraid To Look
DOWNLOAD: Two Wounded Birds - Night Patrol
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Vaseline dreamers Two Wounded Birds make guttural surf rock that often invokes princes of the beach Ricky Nelson or Eddie Cochran, depending on the track. “Night Patrol,” falls more under king Dick Dale, if Dick were slipped a few klonopin in as many whiskies. Though the twang swings low and slow, it’s still got a menacing energy as swamp and fire fight for equal share under lullaby vocals. This stealthy, end-of-the-pier jam can be heard on the Keep Dreaming Baby EP via Holiday Friends, and for another week, on stage, as the band wraps up touring with The Drums.
Two Wounded Birds - Night Patrol
DOWNLOAD: Bosco Delrey - My My Racecar
As the most unclassifiably rogue musician on one of the most unclassifiably rogue labels, Bosco Delrey must be used to the whole, "What is it exactly that you do?" thing. Us? We're calling his stuff Memphis-obsessed bass troubadourism, but you can probably find more in "My My Racecar"'s headspinning melange of swamp beats and rockabilly poise than those few words allow.
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PREMIERE: Dan Sartain - Atheist Funeral
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Musically, "Atheist Funeral" is as heretical and dirge-y as any song titled "Atheist Funeral" should be, but Dan Sartain's emaciated nerdboy/Lux Interior-ish howl makes it sound even creepier, which is welcomely affecting. The Alabama bandleader unloads Dan Sartain Lives, his next vampiric rockabilly opus, on July 20 through One Little Indian, right around the time he hits the road with, perfectly enough, Social Distortion. (Those dates and others are up on his MySpace). Which reminds us: Time to re-up on pomade.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Fionn Regan - Protection Racket
Don't let the solemn, sorry-for-itself black n' white photo fool you - Fionn Regan is perhaps the chirpiest man alive, "Protection Racket" skipping from one narrative tangent to the next in a bluster of giddy folk and laddish bonhomie. Find it on Fionn's forthcoming new album, the less lonely follow-up to 2007's Mercury-nominated The End Of History.
Sounds Like: Eugene McGuinness, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams
Fionn Regan - Protection Racket
DOWNLOAD: Bosco Delrey - Space Junky
Another tune from Klash City affiliate Bosco Delrey, who kept his JAMC-ish guitars on "Space Junky" super-flanged and dirty, like they're doing cartwheels in a platinum rotating dryer. Mad Decent points out the Alan Vega similarities, but really we just imagine dude is on some other planet in his mind, making sizzling, tropical rockabilly inside a cave where there's a huge organ and killer acoustics. He'll take you there.
Sounds like: Handsome Furs, 77Klash, Bruce Springsteen covering Suicide
Previously:
Bosco Delrey - Round N Round (feat. 77Klash)
FEATURED: The Pogues and Kristy McColl
"Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues and Kristy McColl is by far one of the best Christmas songs ever, but this year its legacy was tainted by a slight controversy in England, where the song is basically ingrained in the entire holiday celebration. Mainstream radio station Radio One decided, after 20 years, to censor the word “faggot” from the second verse, sparking a huge debate between gay activists and hardcore fans of the song. The debate ended with Radio one going back on its initial decision and airing the song intact, which, when you think about it, was perhaps not the smartest course of action. Popjustice posted a really in-depth article about why they were in favor of the song being bleeped, demonstrating why they are one of the most read pop music blogs around.
The Pogues and Kristy McColl at Popjustice
