Randy
Cheater (G7 Welcoming Committee)
by Scott Hefflon
The unstoppable Randy returns! Now that it’s common knowledge that neo-garage and garage punk (and Swedish rock in general) is The Next Big Thing (breathe a sigh of relief that we can now openly chuckle at the nü metal meatheads and the emo sissy boys as they struggle to grin like fools and shake their buns-of-steel/moping asses to such good-time music), I can finally say I love Randy and not get looked at funny. No, not Randy Newman. No, not Randy Travis. And no, not Randy Rhoads. (Thanks Google!) Randy, as in the Swedish punk rockers with CDs on G7 (distributed in the U.S. through Hopeless cuz they’re savvy fuckers) and Burning Heart (distributed Stateside by a little label called Epitaph which you may’ve heard of).
Listen to Randy and see how it’s done. And kids, think back to who’s been trying to convince you these guys rule for the last few years and realize they might have alternate sources to great underground music that make Rolling Stone and MTV even more obsolete.
(www.g7welcomingcommittee.com)