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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…
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,…
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…
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…
In the movie "Walk the Line," Johnny Cash's first wife is shown as an evil vixen who did not support his creative endeavors and threw tantrums at him. And June Carter is portrayed as the…
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…
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…
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 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…
Freddie Heath was born in 1935, a couple of weeks after Elvis, on the other side of the Atlantic, in one of the northern districts of London. When English teenagers were gripped by an epidemic…
The review is dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the release of the movie Goodfellas (1990) by Martin Scorsese. Let's immediately clarify the underlying meanings of the name of the tape. It would seem that…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
One day, a black man in a feathered Indian headdress and four white guys in masks of Mexican wrestlers met... It sounds like the beginning of an unfunny joke or a forbidden fairy tale for…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
The film Crossroads (1986) can be attributed not only to the blues genre, but also to the western, because at the end there is one of the most epic scenes in the history of musical…
Few people know that rock appeared in the UK even before the Beatles. In the 1960s, the British would teach Americans how to play American music, but in the 1950s they taught themselves. First, Lonnie…
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".…
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…
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.…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
"Don't look back, maybe something follows on your heels." Part I. Part II. A lanky guy in a brown leather jacket is dragging a guitar case, which is getting heavier by the minute, to a…
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 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,…
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…
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…
As a rule, the King's early films are rated higher than his later films. Not least because Elvis at that time was not yet disappointed with all the ins and outs of the processes that…
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…
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 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…
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…
"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.…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Although the V4s of motorcycles are the most popular V-shaped fours in the custom culture, automobile V4s still exist and even sometimes occur in projects of interest to us. The most common of these engines…
When Elvis Presley changed the face of American popular music, many country singers decided to make drastic changes in their work, playing a fresh genre called "rockabilly". Some abandoned the case after a couple of…
Kendall Jenner (Kendall Nicole Jenner) is an American top model, a famous and beautiful girl. Date of birth: November 3, 1995 (Scorpio). Height 179 cm, weight 54 kg. Dark hair, brown eyes. Model parameters: 84/61/89.…
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,…
If Dante Alighieri had miraculously resurrected in the year 1971 from the Birth of Christ and accidentally got into the cinema hall, where the film "Support Your Local Gunfighter" was on, he could have admired…
So, 1981 is the year. Yamaha Virago is gaining territory for the Japanese in the cruise ship market, while Harley-Davidson is nervously smoking on the sidelines, and even this case seems to be about to…
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…
Once upon a time a plane met a fuel tanker on a deserted Texas road, and the tanker won, it had more wheels with it. Once a Mexican artel tried to turn the valve of…
Lea Dina Mohr (Lea Dina Mohr) is a beautiful blonde girl with green eyes, a model of German origin (date of birth September 11, 1997, zodiac sign Virgo). Welcome to Marseille in the south of…
I decided to add another type of engine to our website. The V4 is a relatively rare unit on the custom scene, which can perhaps be attributed to the fact that American automotive culture is…
Any homo erectus from Earth and the surrounding planetoids appreciates Carl Perkins as a man whose musicality bordered on genius. The agrarian South of the United States remained impoverished even after the Depression, the cotton…
A regular reader might say: But didn't you just say a month ago that you wouldn't write about Japanese engines? Not really: in an article about a GAZ 24 named Venus, I wrote that I…
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…
One of the most revolutionary composers of his time was the son of Russian immigrants from Feodosia, the odious Lucien Ginzburg (April 2, 1928 - March 2, 1991), known to the whole world as Serge…
While the Franks were godlessly plundering the Gallic population, the bosota were fighting for their lives by consuming plebeian frogs, decadent snails and nihilistic cheese with mold. In the best days, the toad carcass was…
We continue to admire the French girl Maelys Garouis. The beginning, part 1. Maelis Garoui, that's how her name is pronounced in French. Among all the photos here is a photoshoot for C-Heads Magazine, shot…
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…
If people and other animals have eyes as the mirror of the soul, then, of course, the headlights play an important role in the car. If it's retro, it's round. If the 80s are rectangular.…
The Sorcerer (Sorcerer, 1977) is a movie from the lists of "the best movies of the 70s that you have never seen." It is formally considered a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Fear Fee (1953)…
Mali Garou (Maelys Garouis), an American fashion model of French origin. Lives in Los Angeles. Height 175 cm, blue eyes, dark blond hair. Date of birth: March 23, 2000 (Aries). Her instagram @maelyschance has over…
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…
With the first rooster song, the pigs will grunt, the cows will mumble, the sheep will bleat, the young lady will hide. Chanticleer The Rooster is responsible for the sunrise with his rockabilly cry, which…
Shot exactly half a century ago, "Rooster Cogburn" for the first time brought together on the screen two of the brightest stars of the Golden Age of American cinema. The names of John Wayne and…
I love... No, it's not like that. I adore and admire the American style of car tuning in the second half of the last century. That's why I always look at supercharged cars. I'm drawn…
I got to know the band The Hub Caps, as well as many other bands from Sweden, thanks to the Rockabilly Nationals compilation. In particular, I purchased the Full Throttle album back in 2020, but…
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…
What is a Woman? Kitty, bunny, sunny? Titian's Magdalene or Caravaggio's Medusa? Are the Venus of Willendorf and the Venus of Milo namesakes or the same person? Klara Zetkin - street or Communist? The antique…
The editors of Rock This Town congratulate all the girls on the spring holiday! And by this bright date, the publication of a photo of a girl who is already, in a certain sense, an…
For a very long time I wanted to write about a car from our native expanses, but at the same time... Don't get me wrong: I respect all car enthusiasts and their projects, and even…
The Oscar-winning Sunset Boulevard (1950) by Billy Wilder is a classic noir and satirical black comedy and psychological drama, and a film dedicated to the stars of the old era of silent cinema. "Sunset Blvd"…
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…
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…
Tonight we're going to talk about men's music. Let's talk about possibly Johnny Cash's greatest album. "Solitary Man" became the third in the American Recordings series and the penultimate lifetime album for the artist. If…
Perhaps the most iconic road movie of all and... I have no idea what to write about. The fact is that even the most iconic road movie is, after all, a road movie. Someone goes…
Lotus founder and chief engineer Colin Chapman, who won 7 constructors' cups in Formula 1 from 1963 to 1978, wrote a popular book for his time, "Build your own sports car for as little as…
There are films that, having watched just once, you become a prisoner of them forever. They give such strong feelings that they continue to live in you for whole episodes, as if you yourself were…
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…
In my childhood, TV was something magical. Magic was dispensed in doses and on schedule. Films for children were specially celebrated in the TV program and each time it was a meeting with a wonderful,…
The Internet is the closest thing we have to a time machine. Of course, some sites are designed to flow with time, but still, old-style sites like blogs or our online magazine are fragments of…