Aw fudge, I was gonna write about Heartless Bastards but they’re really not new enough according to the New Band Day criteria. So to sneak them in anyway I just wanted to say that if they never play one note ever again, they should take pride in knowing they wrote songs like “New Resolution”. From the simple bass line, to the rolling drums, to the restrained voice of their beautiful and talented singer it all comes together like poetry. It’s the kind of song I want to listen to with my eyes closed … on my own, because that looks just a little bit retarded.
Poorboy Johnson And The Goddamn Rattlesnakes don’t exactly have the same effect, they’re more a lying-in-the-grass-chewin’-on-a-reed kind of band. They’re a New York based band that sings about ‘drinking moonshine in the early morn’, but I believe every word of it. Poor Boy Johnson has the kind of cool raspy voice that makes old ladies reach for the cough drops and The Goddamn Rattlesnakes sound like they ran away from a good ole southern hoedown. Here‘s my favorite happy song about death. Download more from both The Goddamn Rattlesnakes‘ myspace page and Poorboy Johnson‘s page.
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