The Atomic Bitchwax had my immediate attention: They have the best band name; the guitarist is from Monster Magnet; there’s a naked chick on the cover.
They’ve cooked up the “Stone Temple Pilots’ sound,” which, despite not being terribly original, is better than imitating whatever’s popular at the moment.
His songs are folk ballads in the classic sense, but they refuse to wallow in the “woe is me” solipsism that makes most modern folk music the bore that it is.
Like Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan,” a side of The Sabbath Show that gets down-played but is as emotionally-integrated into their “thing” as the stompass is.
Loud, fast’n’aggro music is always gonna have a place as long as teen misfits feel a need to beat each other up. Speedealer is all about that, no shit.