The Zissous = The Darts + The Coathangers
I love the name of this band The Zissous. It’s a name most likely gleaned from the fictional, nautical legend Steve Zissou (
Bill Murray) from
Wes Anderson’s
The Life Aquatic. Perfect; I was immediately prepared to love this band. Steve Zissou once said: “I’m going to find it and I’m going to destroy it. I don’t know how yet. Possibly with dynamite.” The Zissous bring that dynamite. The band consists of
Georgina and
Casey Georgina brings the vocals and bass and Casey adds the drums and guitars.
She-Devil comes at you fast and furious, leaning heavily toward a raw-punk/rockabilly vibe with a running guitar, heavy-handed bass and a relentless back beat. “Momma needs her cigarettes!”Georgina sings, describing the titular character and also adding, “Momma’s ready to get mean!” Like the “She-Devil,” The Zissous are ready to get mean, and they mean business. The Zissous rock to the senses of freedom, confide
Street: 03.26
Nancy Sinatra is an icon. The new compilation, Start Walkin 1965 – 1976, proves just that. Nancy Sinatra earned her icon status, not because she was the daughter of the Chairmen of the Board (
Frank Sinatra), or that she was a poster girl for the 1960s mod girl explosion, Nancy earned her place by finding her own vision for pop music and wrapping it all up in a cloak of nonchalant cool. You can thread Nancy’s influence all the way back to Bobbie Gentry’s southern myth-making
Ode To Billie Joe straight to the underlying, casual nihilism of Lana Del Rey.
Matthew Sweet = Grateful Dead + The Beach Boys + Todd Rundgren
Matthew Sweet’s breakthrough album came out in the pivotal year of 1991. It was the year that rock music transcended away from
Guns-N-Roses’
Nirvana’s
Nevermind. The year was a sea of change that started a tidal wave. All you need to do is google best albums of 1991 and it is littered with iconic records. One record from that year that escapes immediate attention is the tragically underrated
Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet
. Girlfriend was an album that exploded to all your pleasure centers and stuck like candy. At the time of release, it was different it was void of that bland angst that would eventually unfold to the masses. It was less doom-and-gloom
Boris With Merzbow = Pink Floyd + The Melvins
The year 2020 has relentlessly tortured us with heavy, choking, haunted air. No need to recap the carnage here we are all still drowning in it, a shared trauma. The devil will always be in the details, and the devil will soon rotate numbers to give us another year. It’s time to let go of 2020, and who better to celebrate this than two legendary Japanese underground noise artists.
Boris and noise icon
Masami Akita (Merzbow) will team up again for the eighth time on the album
2R0I2P0 (the title is a merger of 2020 and RIP). The record is mostly a reimagining of Boris’ 2019 release