Royal Trux combines heavy blues with the best of ’70s punk rock American style. There’s plenty of Rolling Stones and Paul Revere and the Raiders in there.
What would happen if the Velvet Underground met up with the Ramones in a bar in New Jersey to talk about their ex-girlfriends? Outrageous Cherry would happen.
With a dash of Live and a hint or two of Violent Femmes, the songs stroll through their easy paces. Middle-of-the-road acoustic rock with sensitive lyrics.
Ball-Hog careens effortlessly between straight rock, funk, psycho space-jam freakouts, film-noir stuff, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
Formed by ex-Medicine guitarists Ed and Jim, it’s not surprising that the songs are laced with pleasantly noisy guitar riffs. Swaying and trance-enducing.