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From Elvis In Memphis 1969, Elvis album review

From Elvis In Memphis: The King’s New Dress

Music08.01.2026  68

Nineteen sixty-eight was the debut year for both the magnificent Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jethro Tull, as well as for the absolutely fantasy Tyrannosaurus Rex, which, having shortened the name, will still prove themselves in…

10 Christmas movies, Funny, Scary and Crazy

10 Movies for Christmas: Crazy, Fun and Scary

Movies07.01.2026  37

Christmas is a time not only for sweet fairy tales, but also for dark, dangerous wonders. This collection of films is distinguished by the daring imagination of the creators, who are not afraid to offend…

movie review The Born Racer, Born To Race, 2011

Born To Race (2011): the best Fast and…

Movies05.01.2026  45

As you know, franchises - with very few exceptions - last exactly three parts. Fast and Furious movie series, oddly enough, is also a trilogy. Because everything that happened after the Tokyo Drift is some…

Hank Williams, The Last Trip, 2011, film review, Russian translation

Hank Williams: The Last Ride (2011) – the…

Movies03.01.2026  22

The Last Ride: A Story Of Hank Williams will primarily interest fans of one of the first bad guy in the music business, and the first country music superstar: it's about Hank Williams, of course!…

Country style Christmas, a playlist of country Christmas New Year country music

Daddy Frost: Country Christmas

Music26.12.2025  84

There is a land that has never seen snow. There, a tornado grabs the first Dorothy and her dog Toto, casually sweeping away the neighbors' homes. For a short time, this land was ruled by…

Ilya Darkbloom, Cold Cats, EP 2025 review

Ilya Darkbloom’s Cool Cats: Inner Fire in the…

Music18.12.2025  88

One of my friends from The Boredom Breakers, who went on an untimely sabbatical, often said that rock and roll was most associated with New Year's holidays. The association is generally quite common: the film…

The Story of Neo-swing and Zoot Suit Riots

Zoot Suit Riot: A Brief History of Neo-Swing

Music17.12.2025  150

Perhaps it all started with the zoot suits. Although the word "zoot" is a corruption of the word "suit" by Blacks. Saying "zoot suit" is just tautology. Oversized banana trousers with a high waist, jackets…

Hank Williams III, A fiendish feast, album review

Hank Williams III – A Fiendish Threat: When…

Music12.12.2025  78

Not only in country music, but also in early rock and roll, there is no one who was not influenced by Hank Williams. Why, even such powerful "colored" performers as Fats Domino and Ray Charles…

Elliot James Ray, Musician's Review, the story of the rise of a new rock and roll star

Elliot James Reay: Resurrecting 50s Rock and Roll

Music11.12.2025  88

In a world of modern music dominated by electronic beats, vile ticking hi-hat and autotune, 23-year-old Elliot James Reay from the northern English town of Bury, like a time traveler, takes us back to the…

Bonsai Kitten, review of the German cycobilly metal band, discography

Bonsai Kitten: How to become yourself by ceasing…

Music17.11.2025  266

Rockabilly-psychobilly performers tend to be in a confined space of voluntary stylistic constraints. They can be described as a kind of cube, the faces of which allow you to keep a template belonging to the…

Marlon Brando's Schott Perfecto leather jacket from the movie Savage 1953

A riot for sale: How “The Wild One,”…

Movies12.11.2025  114

Imagine Russian emigrants in the basement of a New York tenement, 1913. Irving and Jack Schott make coats and sell them door-to-door. But Irving is not just another tailor. In 1925, this guy with a…

The Blasters - Hard Line, review of the hit album Dark Night

The Blasters – Hard Line: Dark Night and…

Music11.11.2025  247

In 1977, the place of the King of Rock and Roll was vacant for obvious reasons. Malcolm McLaren and his appendages immediately presented their princes. We will call them "McLaren Homuncules". It seemed that everything…

The Curse of the Wasteland, 2025. movie review, plot, content, meaning of the ending

Killing Faith (2025): The Curse Of The Badlands

Movies07.11.2025  439

The film "Killing Faith" (aka Devil In The Dust, 2025) is a dark, hypnotic fusion of dark western and body horror from screenwriter and director Ned Crowley, which takes place in 1849 in the dangerous…

13 Horror Movies from the 80s for Halloween

13 Cool Halloween Movies Straight out of the…

Movies30.10.2025  156

The years of the 80s became the golden age of horror, giving rise to many legendary franchises that are being exploited and reshot to this day. It was an era of bold experiments, where political…

No, I'm Not A Human, review of a horror game about Guests

No, I’m Not A Human: Meme horror for…

Video games29.10.2025  113

Authentic Halloween celebrations for residents of the former Soviet Union are a task as meaningless and tedious as collecting baseball cards or reconstructing the Battle of the Alamo. In a different cultural context, we get…

Wovenhand, album review of Concider The Birds 2004

Wovenhand – Concider The Birds: The Second Sermon…

Music24.10.2025  132

The diversity of American Protestant sects dates back to the 17th century, when English Puritans, Dutch Quakers and others fled to the New World. David Eugene Edwards, born on February 24, 1968, participated in the…

Mark Knopfler, Golden Heart album review

Mark Knopfler – Golden Heart: Celtic Expression in…

Music20.10.2025  146

There was complete madness in the British charts of the late 1970s: punk was replaced by post-punk, which appeared, despite the prefix "post", before punk, heavy metal manes howled terribly, synthetic poppers writhed in romantic…

Ilya Darkbloom, Rockabilly mini Album review, Hot Dogs, 2025

Ilya Darkbloom’s Hot Dogs: The Dark Flower of…

Music17.10.2025  170

One of the most difficult tasks, along with a completely original billboard album, is a completely Russian-language rockabilly album. We've heard many times, mostly from each other, that the great and mighty is completely unsuitable…

Queens Of Everything, a review of the Czech band's discography

Queens of Everything: a tale of the most…

Music15.10.2025  106

Ask a Slavic person: "what is a holiday?" and in response you will hear that it is certainly an expanse at a long table, where the river of home-brewed beer flows, and copper pipes proclaim…

A guide to country punk or cowpunk, cowpunk and what it will eat you with

The Hunchback Guide to Country Punk: Who is…

Music09.10.2025  377

What kind of stooping nag brought these shorties to our saloon? The name of the nag is punk rock. It was this nag that completed the history of rock music, thoroughly defecating in the ears…

The poster of the movie Hot Rod Gang in 1958.

Hot Rod Gang (1958): youth comedy of the…

Movies03.10.2025  105

While some films become famous, others become iconic. Hot Rod Gang does not belong to either the first or the second category. It cannot be found in lists like "100 movies you must see before…

Josh Meloy, Oklahoma, album review

Josh Meloy – Oklahoma (2020): the light of…

Music01.10.2025  218

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…

Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Live At The Star Club Hamburg 1964, review of the album by a brilliant musician

Jerry Lee Lewis – Live In Hamburg: Everything…

Music29.09.2025  140

God didn't drive down Sodom for boogie-woogie. However, Jerry Lee Lewis was kicked out of the Southwestern Institute of Bible Studies precisely because the dean recognized the sinful boogie-reading of the hymn "My God Is…

The Soviet twist, Arno Babajanian

Soviet twist: Arno Babajanyan

Music23.09.2025  128

Hank Ballard and his band The Midnighters released the single "The Twist" in 1959, with absolutely no intention of inventing a new dance. In general, Ballard often made direct allusions to carnal pleasures in his…

Robert Redford, the 10 Best Films

Robert Redford: The 10 Best Films of the…

Movies18.09.2025  528

The long and wonderful life of American actor and director Robert Redford has come to an end. In cinematic terms, the movie of his fate has found its final cut. A legend of world cinema,…

Patsy Cline, biography, the best songs of a country singer

Patsy Cline: Walking after midnight

Music15.09.2025  159

Her voice is a quality mark in country music, a unique sensuality and timbre imbued with blues, swing and rockabilly drive. Patsy Cline is a legend who forever changed the sound of American music by…

Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957), album review

Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar…

Music12.09.2025  328

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, game review, game review

Turmoil: how cowboys pumped oil

Video games09.09.2025  129

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…

in memory of Buddy Holly, biography, history of the musician

Buddy Holly remembering: the best songs

Music06.09.2025  214

There are many outstanding figures in 1950s rock and roll, but even among them, one shines like a supernova: Buddy Holly. He was allowed only 22 years to live and work, and Don McLean called…

As Diabatz, a review of the discography of a girl psychobilly band from Brazil

As Diabatz: dietary psycho-carnival

Music03.09.2025  195

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…

Johnny Cash, the best songs in movies and TV series

Johnny Cash: The best songs in movies and…

Music02.09.2025  806

Johnny Cash for Americans is like Vladimir Vysotsky for Soviet citizens, his songs have become part of the cultural code. But there is a difference: Cash continued to delight and surprise with his work for…

A review of the custom Plymouth Barracuda from the film Corky 1972

1967 Plymouth Barracuda from the movie Corky

Kustoms25.08.2025  506

If you want to watch (or have already watched) Corky's movie, it's probably not least because you want (or wanted) to see the main character's car in action - a very remarkable peach-pinkish Plymouth Barracuda.…

Lefty Frizzell, Lefty Frizzell, biography of a country musician

Lefty Frizell: Sardonic Texas Couplets

Music22.08.2025  189

A pink-cheeked bumpkin who turned into a grizzly bear, William Orville Frizell was born in 1928, on March 31. The world immediately seemed to him like a kind of lair where you can have a…

Corky 1972, Corky, review of a film about a racing driver

Corky (1972) crazy racing driver story

Movies19.08.2025  685

Leonard Horn's drama Corky (1972) is one of the best car films of the 70s. Corky is a young racing driver involved in stock car racing. The Car of the protagonist is a custom 1967…

Last Report, an indie game review

Last Report: A cabin in the woods at…

Video games14.08.2025  1516

"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…

Rebel, Rebel 1985, movie review with Matt Dillon

Rebel (1985) Love during the war

Movies11.08.2025  787

In the midst of World War II, the Pacific campaign of 1942, the Japanese are fleeing Guadalcanal, and the American Marines who survived the battles are trying to recover in Sydney bars. The sergeant nicknamed…

Days Gone, game review and review

Days Gone: all the belated daytimes

Video games06.08.2025  436

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…

Mobland 2025, author's review of the series

Mobland (2025) a wolf pack from the 90s

Movies31.07.2025  2110

The crime drama MobLand (2025) from showrunner Ronan Bennett, creator of "Jackal's Day" and "Top Boy" takes us back to the Foggy Albion. Nostalgia for the 90s to the sounds of Prodigy, Jamiroquai and the…

Billy Fury, the history and biography of the British rocker

Billy Fury – Treasure Island. Chapter 2

Music29.07.2025  635

Liverpool is a port city, and therefore has its own specifics: if you don't work at the docks, you work on a ship. If you don't work here or there, then you're dying. Ronald Wycherly…

Who played the guitar in the Marty McFly song in the movie Back to the Future

A song by Marty McFly from Back to…

Music28.07.2025  5586

On July 3, 2025, Robert Zemeckis' cult film Back to the Future (1985) turned 40 years old. Back To The Future has become a landmark event in pop culture and inspired many other feature and…

The Nut Jumpers, discography of the England-France rockabilly trio

The Nut Jumpers: Anglo-French Eternal Youth

Music24.07.2025  552

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…

Flaming Star, Flaming Star, Western with Elvis Presley, movie review

Flaming Star – Elvis Presley in a dramatic…

Movies23.07.2025  878

The cinematic career of Elvis Presley began in 1956 with the musical western "Love Me Tender", so named after the famous ballad "Love Me Tender", which the king of rock and roll recorded specifically for…

Willie Nelson, And When I Wrote 1962, review of the country legend's first album

Willie Nelson – …And Then I Wrote: Redhead…

Music07.07.2025  919

Whose hippie grandpa is climbing on stage to the colossuses: Cash, Jennings and Kristofferson, laughing into his curly beard? This is Willie Nelson, a tramp, a grass smoker and a regular guy of post-retirement age.…

5 Rock Bands Johnny Cash Hated the Most

5 Rock Bands That Johnny Cash Hated the…

Music04.07.2025  2006

Johnny Cash was a father figure to country music, but also a controversial man, who said he had two opposing personalities and they were fighting each other. The angel was sitting on his shoulder, and…

Andrea Wittenberg, 154 photos of model girls in swimsuits on the beach

Andrea Wittenberg in a bikini on the beach.…

Girls02.07.2025  1031

Andrea Wittenberg is a very beautiful South African white model. Here is part 1. We continue to admire the girl. Today, there are several sets of her beach photos in bikinis, swimsuits (or topless) for…

Kris Kristofferson, The Top 15 Movie Roles

The 15 Best Movies by Kris Kristofferson

Movies27.06.2025  3155

Kris Kristofferson gained fame at the age of Christ, in 1969. In the very year that was imprinted in history as the "Summer of Love." Apparently, the stars came together in such a way that…

Chris Isaak, The First Album, Silvertone, album review

Chris Isaak – Silvertone: He came to sing…

Music26.06.2025  5131

Eric Jacobsen (Jacobsen is a Scandinavian surname, read it however you want) already had a lot of experience producing the Lovin' Spoonful band when he knocked out some money for the fledgling Silvertone team from…

Rusty Sharks - Long Way to Freedom (2025), album review, review

Rusty Sharks – Long Way to Freedom (2025):…

Music19.06.2025  1695

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…

Andrea Wittenberg, Andrea Wittenburg, beautiful model from South Africa, 117 photos

Andrea Wittenberg, a model from South Africa. Part…

Girls16.06.2025  1795

Andrea Mary Wittenberg is a beautiful blonde girl from South Africa. Date of birth: July 26, 2001 (zodiac sign Leo). Model parameters: height 175 cm, 84-67-98. Her Instagram is @andreamaryw, it has only 7k followers,…

A profile for an article about Elvis Presley's hot rod from the movie Loving You.

Hot Rod 1929 Ford by Elvis from the…

Kustoms11.06.2025  1225

Elvis Presley loved cars, and this is a well-known fact. Most of all, he liked Cadillacs - according to popular opinion, during his life Elvis bought something like two hundred cars of this brand. The…

Thr Rusty Robots, the discography of the German old school band cycobilly

The Rusty Robots: Old-school corroded psychobilly

Music10.06.2025  1241

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…

Conway Twitty, the best rock'n'roll and rockabilly songs, download mp3, listen online

Conway Twitty – The 17 Best Songs in…

Music06.06.2025  1617

Conway Twitty, a native of Mississippi, was an absolutely positive rock'n'roll hero, he was called the "best friend of the song." Conway never drank or smoked, but loved the opposite sex - he was married…

hank garland, subtle swing, a review of the jazz album by Hank Garland, guitarist of Elvis

Hank Garland – Subtle Swing (1960): Doors to…

Music02.06.2025  689

On whose shoulders are the giants standing? Chuck Berry's accompanists were great: bassist Willie Dixon wrote no less imperishable songs for the blues than Chuck did for rock and roll, and pianist Johnny Johnson composed…

Clint Eastwood's Best Films Directed by, Top 10 Best Films

Clint Eastwood’s 10 Best Movies Directed by

Movies31.05.2025  1529

Clint Eastwood is 95! And the most amazing thing is that with such fantastic numbers on the scoreboard of life, we can't talk about it in the past tense. Perhaps we are still waiting for…

Clint Eastwood's Top 10 Roles That Shook the World

Clint Eastwood: The 10 best roles that shook…

Movies30.05.2025  11312

Reviewing the achievements of the world cinema of the last sixty years, one could, paraphrasing a well-known saying: wherever you see, Clint is everywhere! In this exclamation, of course, there is some exaggeration, but not…

John Fogerty, Blue Moon Swamp 1997, album review

John Fogerty – Blue Moon Swamp: Songs are…

Music28.05.2025  12253

"The Odyssey of Captain Blood" by Rafael Sabatini's fine pen outlined the situation of the Irish in the British Empire. The British used these negligent Celts until the Dutch brought blacks to the New World.…

A profile for an article about the Ford Taunus V4 engine.

Ford Taunus V4 engine – Western Four with…

Kustoms27.05.2025  1501

I think, after reading about four-cylinder V-shaped internal combustion engines in Japan and the USSR, the question of how things are going in Europe and America suggests itself. We will be able to answer this…

Play Misty For Me, review of the film Play Me Before You Die 1971

Play Misty For Me (1971) the story of…

Music22.05.2025  722

Clint Eastwood's first directorial experience, the film Play Misty For Me (Play me before you die, 1971 - what kind of smart guy thought to translate the title into Russian like that?) That's why the…

The history of the V4 engine in cruisers, part 3 about Japanese engines in motorcycles

The history of the V4 engine in cruisers,…

Kustoms21.05.2025  678

As I mentioned in passing in one of the previous parts, Harleys actually had some very cool prototypes. Back in 1976, the company's management developed a detailed plan to respond to the Japanese threat: an…

dark jazz, listening to music, an introduction to dark jazz

Dark Jazz and what they wash it down…

Music19.05.2025  3317

Darkness has penetrated jazz for so long that it is no longer clear which of the musicians first turned onto the crooked path. Billie Holiday, in addition to the creepy "Strange Fruit", performed a number…

Cristina Mendonca, Australian model, 106 photos

Kristina Mendonca – Australian model (106 photos)

Girls16.05.2025  2943

Kristina Mendonca, known for her work in swimwear and underwear commercials, is a very beautiful Australian model. Date of birth: July 26, 1997 (Leo zodiac sign), Newcastle, Australia. She has 460,000 followers on Instagram @kristinamendonca…

Ricky Nelson, the best songs, download or listen online

Ricky Nelson – The 20 Best Songs

Music15.05.2025  9096

The golden boy of rock and Roll, Ricky Nelson, competed with Elvis in the late 50s, and in the early 1960s became one of the main idols of teenagers, producing pop hits one after another,…

Songs that defeated death, immortal war songs

Songs that defeated Death

Music09.05.2025  623

Lightning was already blazing in the west. Hitler's Germany, devouring helpless Europe, grew stronger like your pig on free beets. Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach, a man of subtle mental attunement, felt the storm coming for a…

Radio Pobedy, the best songs of Victory

Radio Pobedy: a personal look at military songs

Music09.05.2025  832

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…

the best foreign films about the war of the 50s-60s-70s, American and European films about the Second World War

The best movies about the WW2. Part 3…

Movies09.05.2025  6342

Our third "magnificent seven" (part 1, part 2) of films about the World War II will present tapes of Western screen masters dedicated to some dramatic pages of those years. With all the abundance of…

the best Soviet films about the war of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s

The best Soviet films about the war. Part…

Movies08.05.2025  19004

The second "magnificent Seven" films about World War II (here is the first selection) will present films by Soviet screen masters dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The selection of films presented below is very…

the best war films of 1941-1945, the best films about World War II and the Great Patriotic War

The best war films for Victory Day: Part…

Movies07.05.2025  2468

We present an overview of the best war films for the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. The Second World War, which contained several theaters of military operations colossal in importance and bloodshed, received its…