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…
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…
Eddy «The Chief» Clearwater & Los Straitjackets –…
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…
Billy Fury – Treasure Island. Chapter 2
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…
A song by Marty McFly from Back to…
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: 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…
The guitar duel in the movie Crossroads. Who…
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…
British rockabilly of the 1950s: Treasure Island. Chapter…
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…
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".…
Willie Nelson – …And Then I Wrote: Redhead…
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 That Johnny Cash Hated the…
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…
Tazmanian Devils: Old-school sci-fi from the Red Book
In our circles, every second person dreams of dancing wildly from night to morning. Like a charming mentally handicapped cartoon animal, three guys from the Teutonic lands have built three or so albums filled with…
Chris Isaak – Silvertone: He came to sing…
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):…
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 Rusty saiko
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 17 Best Songs in…
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 (1960): Doors to…
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…
John Fogerty – Blue Moon Swamp: Songs are…
"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.…
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?…
Play Misty For Me (1971) the story of…
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…
Dark Jazz and what they wash it down…
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…
Ricky Nelson – The 20 Best Songs
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
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: 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…
Johnny Horton: The Man who Found Alaska’s Gold
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…
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…
Carl Perkins – Go Cat Go! (1996) when…
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…
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…
Serge Gainsbourg: The 20 best songs
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…
Yee-yee: rolling rock around the Eiffel Tower
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…
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…
The Hub Caps – Full Throttle: Hot rock…
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…
Femme Fatales: Poison Ivy, Wendy O. Williams, Marianne…
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 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…
Johnny Cash – Solitary Man: The Revelations of…
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…
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…
Rock and Roll Valentine’s Day – the best…
Rock'n'roll can be cheerful and assertive, like a young man at the prom, hiding behind his bravado the fear of inviting a school sweetheart to dance. Rock'n'roll can be sarcastically aggressive, like a pack of…
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 cycobilly, punk rock and its ideology…
JD McPherson – Nite Owls (2024): Owls are…
In 1917, the Yankees entered the First World War, in connection with which New Orleans was declared a "strategic port", and all the entertainment venues of the most musical city in the United States were…
David Lynch & Chrysta Bell – Cellophane Memories:…
David Lynch compared the ideas to fish: a minnow and a bream frolic in shallow river water, but they will have to dive into the depths of the ocean for unique specimens. Fished out into…
Black Knights – Gold Teeth And Silver Charms:…
One of my hobbies is to search for music that is not available on the Internet. And when I find something that I like, I have a desire to share it with the people... The…
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 Cycobilly 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…
Ringo Starr – Look Up (2025): Cowboys and…
Keith Moon was an outrageous buffoon, Charlie Watts was a jazz dandy, John Bonham was the idol of the wolverines, and Ringo... Ringo was just Ringo. And it continues to be so when others have…
5 modern cycobilly albums for neophytes. 21st century…
Have a nice evening, nervous young people! Today I want to introduce you to several cycobilly albums released over the last decade. They are united by modern and high-quality sound, and they are all from…
Elvis Presley – Pot Luck: The Pot Cooks
On the 90th anniversary of the King! Returning home on March 2, 1960, Elvis discovered how the face of show business was distorted in a leering grin. All the stars of rock and roll were…
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 Saiko 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…
Del Shannon: Runaway and the 13 Best Songs
Del Shannon was one of the few American rock and roll artists of the 1960s who survived the devastating wave of the British invasion. Other "survivors" included Elvis, Dion, and Roy Orbison. Dedicated to the…
Five Albums for Cinderella: A Christmas Story
Catholics, Lutherans and other schismatics have the custom of celebrating Christmas on the night of December 24 to December 25 according to the Julian calendar (the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on the same days,…
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…
Cactus Blossoms – Every Time I Think About…
They appeared in a town called Twin Peaks a quarter of a century after the mysterious disappearance of FBI agent Dale Cooper. They were previously spotted in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was there that they got…
Nick Lowe & Los Straightjackets – Indoor Safari:…
Nick Lowe, born in the English county of Surrey in 1949, began his musical career in 1967, organizing a group with a school friend Brinsley Schwartz with the unmemorable name Kippington Lodge. The hippie Era,…
Fast Track To Nowhere – the soundtrack to…
The soundtrack to Rebel Highway, the collection Fast Track To Nowhere are versions of rock and roll classics from the musicians of the 90s. The compilation was released on A&M Records in 1994. Iggy Pop…
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…
Kassi Valazza – Knows Nothing: The Arizona Looking…
The desperate prehistoric girl Taffamai Metallumai invented the first alphabet, according to Rudyard Kipling. According to Lewis Carroll, the desperate Victorian girl Alice crawled into a rabbit hole without soap, where she gorged on mushrooms.…
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…
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…
In memory of Kris Kristofferson. Part II: To…
"Blame the Stones for everything," Kris Kristofferson sarcastically sings, opening his first album with a mocking march (Part I about Chris). He almost quotes The Rolling Stones, mentioning, among other vices of society, the bored…
Hillbilly Moon Explosion – Back In Time (2024)…
Switzerland is a compact, cozy and relatively neutral country. Multilingual Helvetians leisurely mold their leaky cheese and rivet their precise watches. And in the case of a spiritual impulse, they climb to the top and…
In memory of Kris Kristofferson. Part I. Me…
"I went to jail that night. And I dreamed of all the wines and all the single girls of this best of all possible worlds," sings Kris Kristofferson on his debut album, intertwining Voltaire's mockery…
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…
The Millions – Hot! Hot! Hot! You can’t…
This is not New Orleans, playing the saxophone in the St. Petersburg courtyard requires more courage than fiddling in the courtyard of Odessa. The first five years are especially difficult, until you manage to blow…
Alex & The Rainshots – Time Is Nigh:…
Seventy years have passed since the change of epochs and the beginning of the decline of the Soviet Russian Empire. An absurd little man in an embroidered shirt rhythmically taps his shoe on the podium,…
Dion Dimucci: A cat on a slippery roof.…
The Dutch ousted the Algonquins in order to lose themselves in the tsunami of Catholics and Jews. Take a look at the map: The Bronx is the testicles of Manhattan, a piece of land bounded…
The Karovas Milkshake – Now It Was Said…
Linguist and novelist Anthony Burgess wrote his knizhonka "Clockwork Orange" in 1962, after visiting Leningrad. Andy Warhol, famous for his coloring books, first seized on the violent pseudo-dystopia, but Stanley Kubrick turned the story into…
The Maple Blues Band – Let’s Go: Maple…
Old people don't belong here. This is a place for mature gentlemen who know their business. Canada is a province torn between two hegemons: the British Crown has formal power over it, and the United…
VIA Raznosoli – The first covid: Our hangout…
In the house on the corner of Deribasovskaya-Richelevskaya, grandmother's ghost is still clacking with an ectoplasmic jaw. If the invaders do not come, their weighty relics will beat the wolves of the Circumpolar region. Having…
Elvis Presley – Spinout: Diamonds for Hollywood’s Dictatorship
What happened to Elvis after 1977 is described in the films "People in Black" and Bubba Ho-Tep, which is why it is not an example of a more talented story than about his life before…
Chris Isaac – Everybody Knows It’s Christmas: Rockabilly…
All of Chris Isaac's music is a great addition to our summer days, but in his new work he definitely turns to winter. Everybody Knows It's Christmas is the second of Isaac's Christmas albums, released…
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…
Dominic Halpin – Shade Of Blue: Plush rockabilly…
The Milky Way galaxy is rich in rock'n'roll for every taste. People with fine taste, young men with broken hearts, and director David Lynch like Roy Orbison. Perverts, psychopaths and Wednesday Addams experience sweet convulsions…
Paul Fenech – Demon Seed Rising (2022): You…
And there will be a night when the rubber scarecrows of cheap horror movies will come to life and the ketchup will turn to blood. And the screenwriters, brilliant in their stupidity, will crawl out…
Rockabilly Nationals: Four hours of Swedish Rockabilly
For quite some time now, I've been wanting to introduce all those who visit our website to collections called Rockabilly Nationals. And it seems that there won't be a better moment than now - right…
Danzig Sings Elvis – worship of the heavy…
In addition to the standard Elvis renditions, the Danzig Sings Elvis album is notable for its cover versions of selected songs from the King's repertoire, unknown to a wide range of listeners. It is possible…
Ghost Radio – Something Better For You: Ashes,…
There are ghosts with a motor, and ghosts with affectionate names settle in the old radio. Verunchik walks along the streets, squeezed by gloomy Chelyabinsk high-rise buildings, and even the winds part before her. The…
Sea Sea Rider (2022) Surf Tribute To The…
There is no surfing on Lake Shartash. Only stupid peasants dip their ill-fated larvae into the ice hole. There is surfing off the coast of California. There, boys who do not know sheepskin coats dip…
Diddley Dogs – Dawg Days Are Here (2022):…
Covering the work of friends is a hell of a complicated business. It is necessary to maintain a balance between outright flattery and undisguised malice. I'll try to be objective, despite my infernal sense of…
Amanda Shires – For Christmas (2021) Marina Tsvetaeva’s…
Singer, violinist, songwriter, Texas native and Grammy Award winner Amanda Shires presented her first Christmas album to the public in November 2021. The record is interesting primarily for its original material, and the fact that…
Stephane Griebel sings Christmas Songs (2021) – Christmas…
At the end of November 2021, the German label KEiL Records, with which we have already become friends this fall, released a Christmas mini-album "Stephan Griebel sings Christmas Songs" with a circulation of 333 copies.…
Brian Setzer – Gotta Have The Rumble (2021),…
Brian Setzer's first solo album in the last seven years! As in the case of the album by another stray cat, Lee Rocker, the recording of the disc occurred not least due to the widespread…
Dave Alvin – Eleven Eleven: Eleven Lives on…
Dave Alvin, born on 11/11/1955, recorded his eleventh solo album with the characteristic name Eleven Eleven in 2011. In numerology, the prime number 11 is considered very powerful, but we will leave such interpretations to…
Dave Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang (2021):…
The icon of the 80s neo-rockabilly, Dave Phillips, formerly of the Blue Cats, who named his rockabilly band after the 1958 film starring Gene Vincent, is returning. Famous for his collaboration with Mark Harman from…
Imelda May – 11 Past The Hour (2021):…
Ireland is an island green with the magic of the Hill People, full of the manuscripts of great writers. The island of the first slaves of the British Empire, the explosions in Ulster and Catholic…
Rusty Sharks – Sexy Demons (2021): Dr. Caligari’s…
The leaden waters of the Baltic Sea are washed ashore by sprats in cans, the Peipsi tribes by ferries. The Peipsi tribes embark on ruinous raids on the "glass houses" and pubs of the nearest…
In memory of Dusty Hill
This story is as old as a turtle in a New York sewer: in the sixties, walking with long hair in Texas meant learning a cartoon ostrich run from local coyotes. Contrary to the opinion…
Charlie Crockett – 10 For Slim (2021), ten…
Charlie Crockett. This musician deserved an article on our website last year when he released his album Welcome To Hard Times, recorded before the pandemic, but unlike Lee Rocker's post-pandemic work, Charlie's music is much…
Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird – These 13:…
Sometimes they come back. A little Corsican sets sail from Elba to bring his Old Guard to ruin. The Ouroboros, imagining himself to be a puppy, grabs his own tail with his teeth. Rotted corpses…
Tom Jones – Surrounded By Time (2021): Sir…
A working-class town in south Wales is a great place to have a decaliter in the pub after a hard day, another local beer parody for the return of King Arthur. A place where Kruner's…
The Meteors – Skull’n’bones (2021): In the terrible…
The children of Perestroika learned the horror of impending capitalism thanks to pay-cable television, which broadcast cartoons about an echid mouse, an anarcho-syndicalist rabbit gnawing carrots and a tired basset hound. Those who had done…
Tami Nielson – Chikaboom Deluxe (2021): The Booming…
"A bootleg full of surprises" is what you can call this boot-shaped island state in Oceania, although some prefer the traditional New Zealand. Maori dance brutally here, Kiwis sneak mercilessly at the worm in the…
Vivita & The Sufferings – Seven Nails In…
It's not easy to find a good witch. In the old days, even the coals did not have time to cool down, as the venerable crowd dragged a fresh charmer, suspected of eating toad broth…