It got colder. Plaid blankets are in short supply, sunlight looks like a mockery, if present at all, and inside the body you constantly want to pour hot tea, cold whiskey or warm milk. To…
Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar…
The golden era of rock and roll is strongly associated with 45-inch single records. A full-length music album in our understanding, with a well-developed concept and unity of sound, is a sign of a later…
Turmoil: how cowboys pumped oil
In the context of the Wild West, the pursuit of valuable minerals almost always means a gold rush. But gold can also be black, and it was quite hunted by dashing cowboys in their dashing…
As Diabatz: dietary psycho-carnival
Two things in the rockabilly universe are disappointingly rare. These are, firstly, purely female collectives, and secondly, the BRICS countries. Today we will kill two birds with one stone and listen to the compatriots of…
Billy & the Sideburnzz: quality, calm and alcoholic…
It's always nice to see new faces on our cozy little stage. And today we will get acquainted with the Teutonic trio, which simply and tastefully prepares billy skit of medium strength, washing it all…
Last Report: A cabin in the woods at…
"I'm all alone and lost in the woods!" my beloved Hot Rod Frankie sang pitifully. And there is something to be afraid of: everything is found in the forests. Even if they have been upgraded…
Days Gone: all the belated daytimes
How often do we think about the past? I think it's quite common, especially considering the love for everything vintage. Experiencing losses is not an easy task, especially when the whole surrounding reality is going…
The Nut Jumpers: Anglo-French Eternal Youth
The path to the goal together is much easier than alone. Yes, he will be deprived of the romantic flair of a lone wolf, but it's more convenient to go in good company. On the…
Hot Chickens – Rock’n’roll Vendetta (2025): Old Monsieur’s…
R means a rooster! V means vendetta! Moreover, the rooster is exclusively Gallic. But with the letter R, everything is much more interesting. These are "rock and roll", and "rockabilly" and even "rhythm and blues".…
Robocop Rouge City: The Solid metal everyday life…
After a number of publications about lovers of musical rust (Robots, Sharks), I want to draw your attention to the most stainless hero of our collective unconscious. About one-twentieth of the peremptory coolness of the…
Tazmanian Devils: Old-school psychobilly from the Red Book
In our community, every second person dreams of dancing wildly from night to morning. Like a charming mentally handicapped cartoon animal, three guys from the Teutonic lands had built three or thereabout albums filled with…
Rusty Sharks – Long Way to Freedom (2025):…
Alarm! They're free! It was a long journey to freedom from the St. Petersburg wells, and now they are here again. The one-of-a-kind Rusty Sharks are proud to present their new record Long Way to…
The Rusty Robots: Old-school corroded psychobilly
We are already very familiar with the intentional temporal anomalies that authentic rockabilly performers cause. But today, Dr. Brown, instead of the golden fifties, will send us back to his native eighties. Those are the…
Guana Batz – Powder Keg (1996): instructions for…
It happens that you find something truly wonderful in a completely unexpected place. Is it possible to expect something creepy from the guys who record their favorite dog in the band and show their faces?…
Radio Pobedy: a personal look at military songs
The songs dedicated to the Great Patriotic War are something absolutely special. You need to approach them very subtly and with great respect. Are there any songs in our favorite styles, whose form or performance…
Far Cry 5: Rednecks, Sectarianism and unbridled fun
It just so happens that the game section of the RockThisTown website is mainly represented by combat classics, "turkeys" and hidden diamonds of the past. Can the mainstream, with its terrible optimization, stagnation of gameplay,…
The Devil Makes Three – Spirits (2025) return…
We continue the story of infernal accountants The Devil Makes Three. Today we will take a look at the new album Spirits 2025, which is a kind of return to the musical origins of the…
The 69 Cats: How the Helsinki Ghoul Rock’n’roll…
What happens if you take a Finnish goth, bassist and drummer from the legendary bands of the 70s-80s and Danny B. Harvey in the role of Danny B. Harvey? Anything, really, but in our reality…
The Devil Makes Three: The Devil Thinks for…
Usually the whole damn thing in music lies in the dark lyrics and electric sound. How about inviting the unclean to a purely acoustic sabbath? It really won't be a devil, but at most a…
Hotrod Frankie: Monsters are not what they seem
The semantic simplicity of the vast majority of songs in our favorite genres has never been a big problem, but I personally have always wanted something more narrative and "otherworldly" than the classic tracks of…
Genesis Noir: Through long shadows to the stars
Everyone loves cartoons. This is an axiom. Even if you've been out of short pants for a long time, and soda is doubly delicious if you wash it down with single malt whiskey aged in…
The Boners – Hell Yeah (2015): How it…
Well–done audacity and a thirst for experimentation are initially a very important component of rockabilly music. Excessive conservatism will never give us a new Gene Vincent. How about adding a pinch of rhythm and blues…
Disco Elysium: Extracurricular reading
You find yourself in darkness and silence. The voices in your head convince you not to open your eyes, not to return to the maddening reality. There are no monsters in it, but there is…
Stressor – Live in St.Petersburg (2022): Stress Tolerance…
I'll start with a personal question.: How do you deal with stress? I really appreciate the small joys of life. Small joys, such as a successful concert or a good record, can have a truly…
Hard Fall Hearts – Last 24 Hours: A…
Our favorite genres are filled to the brim with lovesongs. We have enough happy love stories and serenades with marriage proposals. Even more songs about love sufferings of all shapes and colors. However, if we…
SlapClaps: film horrors of our Moscow region –…
The most curious things are happening in the native underground. Many styles and cultures are intertwined to create new hybrids. Today we will look at a band that combines psychobilly, punk rock and its ideology…
Blue Cats – Best Dawn Yet (2012): The…
The genres of Rockabilly and Neo-rockabilly are usually not rich in a variety of song themes. Cars, girls, booze, and a good hairstyle are about the vast majority of our favorite songs. Not that it's…
The Koffin Kats – Higher Lows (2024): The…
I've always associated psychobilly with Europe. It was in the Old World that I had the most of my favorites, but lately I've been discovering more and more purely American names. Today we will listen…
Digger Barnes and his boundless melancholy – discography…
Imagine that you are in a small abandoned town in the midwestern United States. The population is you. Everywhere you look, there's emptiness. It's like you're the only person not only in your shack, but…
5 modern psychobilly albums for neophytes. 21st century…
Have a nice evening, nervous young people! Today I want to introduce you to several psychobilly albums released over the last decade. They are united by modern and high-quality sound, and they are all from…
Blood West: On the prairies, no one will…
The expanses of the frontier have been attracting the recalcitrant for more than a century and a half. And if the classic stories about cowboys and Indians have long been part of the cultural foundation…
White Buffalo – A Freight Train Through the…
Live albums are an ambiguous matter. For a huge category of listeners, concertgoers, along with singles, compilations and tributes, are sent to the category of optional bonuses: you can listen to all this, but only…
Psychobilly Christmas: American Psycho Christmas Tree
The winter holiday season is a complicated thing. Literally, the whole reality needs to be packed into gifts under the Christmas tree, wrapped with garlands and other paraphernalia. That's great in itself, we all love…
The Peacocks – And Now What? (2024) Stories…
The punk-rock component of rockabilly, which is so repugnant to many adherents of rockabilly movements, can be very different. As a rule, we are talking about horror-punk, or something overly cheerful and challenging to get…
Heading Out: you can’t escape from yourself!
Runaways and vagabonds are back in action! But this time, no hitchhiking, androids, or stuffed monkeys! Just you, your faithful iron horse, and your favorite song on the radio. Existential horror is on our heels,…
Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space – Toxic Terror…
Information about the impending nuclear armageddon is increasingly surfacing in news feeds, and the Doomsday clock is scarier than a Monday alarm clock and almost as real. All these fears of the world refer me…
Mike Bell & The Belltones – Lightning Bolt…
There is something absolutely fantastic for me about the music from the Scandinavian peninsula. It's not just the astronomical number of interesting artists and releases for every taste, as if every second person in the…
Norco: The sweet and poisonous spirit of the…
Norco is a small backwater town located in the heart of the Louisiana swamps. This is a story of confrontation between small people, runaways and vagabonds, a large confusing predatory world of industrial giants and…
Linda Gail Lewis – Rockabilly Queen (2024) Rockabilly…
There is a wonderful paragraph 63 in the rules of the Internet: any character must have a version of the opposite sex. It has not spared the rock and roll galaxy either, because Jerry Lee…
Mad Max The Game: High-octane diamond
A post-apocalyptic desert with endless gangs of psychopaths in crazy aggressive cars. The roar of engines, sand and rust on the remains of the old world. The lonely and absurdly cool warrior of these dead…
Cloudpunk: Running in the clouds
Flying cars are a universal symbol of the future for everyone who was born at the end of the twentieth century. In a beautiful place, wheels have long been out of use! Antigravity, a kind-hearted…
Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space – Bloody Unholy…
Just imagine: You're the last survivor of the party. We just celebrated the New Year, but all your friends are already sleeping in salads. In order not to fade out of boredom, you switch the…
Bioshock: a holiday that is always with you…
This article just needs to be here. If a magazine dedicated to authentic rock and roll as a way of life has a section about video games, then a game where the fifties never ended…
Void Bastards: Poor bastards from outer space
The future is not what it used to be. Spaceships do not plow the vastness of the universe, opening a new frontier of humanity. There are no apple trees blooming on Mars, and no one…
Hot Chickens – It’s Time to Rock Again…
It just so happens that all my rockabilly knowledge has never been to the south of Europe. Scandinavia, Germany, the east of Europe, especially Russia and Ukraine – there are many of my favorites. As…
The Red Strings Club: the strings of your…
Most of us would like to have our favorite bar, where the bartender, your best friend for the evening, will prepare you "the cocktail" that will make you "feel better." And for the pianist to…
Horizon Chase Turbo: A bright high-speed sedative
Writing to the Game Section on Rock This Town is not the easiest thing to do. It is quite difficult to find something thematically suitable, and at the same time not worn to the holes…