GRIMY GOODS features The BLOODHOUNDS

If you had any fear that rock n’ roll was dead, don’t worry because all the things that you love about it are alive and kickin’ now that East Los Angeles four-piece The Bloodhounds have released their debut studio album, Let Loose! via Alive NaturalSound Records. Power pop legend Arthur Alexander (Sorrows, The Poppees) produced this mouthwatering slice of rock ‘n’ roll pie and I highly recommend you sink your teeth into it. Steeped in and indebted to the rock ‘n’ roll traditions of the Rolling Stones honky tonk swag, Dylan’s epic vocal drawl, and everything in between — The Bloodhounds draw from the greatest of influences but create one kickass record to call their own. Throw your shoulders back, roll up your sleeves, and buckle up for maximum rock overdrive.

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PENNYBLACKMUSIC review of PAUL COLLINS “Feel The Noise”

The energy that Collins and his band (producer Jim Diamond on bass and electric guitar, Eddie Baranek on electric guitar and David Shettler on drums supplementing Collins’ own rhythm guitar playing) display through this album is breathtaking. The band storm through the songs. Even on tracks like ‘With a Girl Like You’ where Collins and company slow things down a little, the power in his vocals along with Baranek’s stunning guitar sound still make for an exhilarating ride. There’s a distinct 50’s flavour to some of these songs too. Collins has made no secret of the fact that he wanted to make a rock and roll album, that he wanted to prove that good old fashioned rock and roll was still alive and relevant today, and he’s succeeded.

(…) Thanks Paul Collins, you’ve just made thousands of jaded music fans happy again while showing the young pretenders how it should be done and at the same time winning them over to. ‘Feel the Noise’; play it loud with company and see how long it takes before “Who is that?” is fired at you, followed by the words “It’s bloody good”. – Malcolm Carter

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RADIO MOSCOW are going back to South America in December

Tour dates coming soon

Nice PERFORMER MAG review of HANDSOME JACK “Do What Comes Naturally”

ROUTES & BRANCHES review of The BLOODHOUNDS “Let Loose!”

November 1, 2014
Scott Foley

When I write a review I tend to want to avoid saying what other bloggers say. I want to tread new ground, to reinvent the wheel, to mix metaphors … I want to put some thought into my writing, to do justice to music that moves me. Sometimes, though, the most eloquent I can be is simply to say, ” … Damn!!” From Los Angeles, I knew I’d like the Bloodhounds as soon as I came across their picture on the cover of their debut, Let Loose! My expectations were doubled by the fact that the album was being released by the tremendous Alive Natural Sound Records, home to so many other “Damn!!” acts who flirt with a deadly concoction of punk, blues and roots music. A band with Latin roots, the Bloodhounds can’t help but bring to mind “another band from East L.A.,” though the influence is less direct in their songs. What is there is that same love of classic R&B, early rock and garage punk, with cuts like “Wild Little Rider” and “Crackin’ Up” sounding like 60s era nuggets. Bucking the theory that you can’t judge a band by one song title, there’s the immediate classic “Try a Little Reefer”. The sloppy electric guitar, overamplified harmonica, underlying organ and gang vocals give you exactly what you’d expect/hope for with a name like that. Like J Roddy Walston or Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, I want to blast the Bloodhounds from my busted speakers. I want to share “Bottle Cap Blues” with the neighbors and their contentedly clucking backyard chickens. Sure the music is derivative, but there’s no denying that Let Loose! has authentic soul. Damn!!

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MAXIMUM VOLUME MUSIC review of HANDSOME JACK “Do What Comes Naturally”

New York Blues Rockers prove Gene Simmons wrong.

According to part-time rocker and full-time self promoter Gene Simmons “rock is dead”. The legendary Kiss bassist also pointed out that it’s not been a quick death either. A slow painful demise over the past decade. He blames record companies, file-sharing, downloads etc etc.

Whether he is right or not is a mute point, it’s certainly not a thought process that Maximum Volume subscribes to. One thing for sure is that he has clearly not heard New York’s garage rock/blues supremo’s Handsome Jack. If he had he may well of held off making such a statement. That said if HJ are anything to go by then rock will have to go back to it’s past to secure a bright future.

If you wished bands of today sounded like the bands of your yesterdays then it’s time to embrace this band for make no mistake this album could have easily been made in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s. The fact it wasn’t is purely down to timing, as everything is here for a classic album of that era.