Mount Holly - Roll Out

 

 

1.    Who are these four horsemen?

Mount Holly are a blues rock band from Southern California with a debut album due in 2016. Roll Out (Feb’16) is the title single from an album of Transformers inspired tunes from various artists Roll Out (Feb’16).
 

2. What kind of belter are Mount Holly swinging?

Roll Out is a hard rocking mosh pit filler. This is the one the fans at the gig are waiting for. King Kong stomping drums, incessant riffing and hair raising vocals. Roll Out is the total package.

 

3. Who do Mount Holly sound like?

Screamer Magazine were feeling a strong Led Zeppelin connection and were sure the band have big love for Jimi Hendrix.

 

4. What have the press said about Mount Holly? 

“An alt-rock jam that is as explosive as a Michael Bay action scene” – Nerdist.

“In the same breath as Jones and Bonham, yeah... they’re that good really” – Screamer Magazine.

“Raw, rootsy rock’n’roll” – Kings of A&R.
 

5. Who puts the bang in Mount Holly’s buck?

The bands influences are The Jeff Beck Group, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, T Bone Walker, Elmore James, B.B. King, Led Zeppelin,The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and The Who.


6. Why should I give Roll Out a spin?

Roll Out is, as advertised, explosive soundtrack rock'n'roll.


7. Do Mount Holly have any more belters?

Roll Out is the gold standard.

8. Any more words?

Nick Perri was lead guitarist for Shinedown (2008 -2009) and still plays in Silvertide.

Mount Holly were given the key to the city of Mount Holly, New Jersey.

“Loaded and ready let’s roll!”

 

 

 

Slippery seconds is from Los Angeles band Sweaters. The soul rock band put out one single in 2010 Can’t Stop Winning and Like Ur Killing A Man was the B side. Both songs are the kind of gold you find for a dollar in a record store and talk about late at night as though you found god in the bargain bin. Like Ur Killing A Man is a bouncy piano assisted pop rocker with a killer chorus and proof, ironically, that there is no god or these geniuses would have made an album with more of these treasures and gone on to worldwide fame and fortune. I hoped they killed it on an advertising deal or something.

 

“Let there be no question now that your the one I pray for,

I wanna hear you coming”

 

 

 

 



The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Muse

Muse Psycho (March’15) starts out with a dirty guitar stomp reminiscent of classic rock tracks like Acca Dacca’s You Shook Me All Night Long, Led Zep’s Misty Mountain Hop or Lenny Kravitz’s American Woman. But more fuck-offery than either of them and with those Muse style variations that both drift into the ether and then return to kick arse and take no names. Matthew Bellamy’s voice will never be mistaken for another and he marshals the troops in this track and whips the tune into line like Rommel leading the 7^thPanzer division in France 1940.

There’s no ambiguity in this track. It’s as in your face as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman screaming at Private Pile in Full Metal Jacket, “I will gouge your eyes out and skull fuck you” or “It looks like to me the best part of you ran down your mama’s ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress.”

Yes the songs having a right go at military conditioning and the results thereof. Both musically and lyrically this is one of the world’s best bands handing out a brutal musical butt fucking. Yes without the common courtesy of a reach around. Psycho has been scientifically proven to be one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“I'm gonna make you, I'm gonna break you

I'm gonna make you, a fucking psycho!”

 

 

 

 

Muse are an alternative rock band from the bloody small town of Teignmouth, England. Psycho is a promotional single for their seventh album Drones (June’15).

Shit you need to know:

The biggest musical influence on these space cowboys is Rage Against The Machine. Other notables are Queen, Nirvana, David Bowie and Depeche Mode.

Muse have sold well in excess of 15 million albums worldwide.

They wanted to fly on to stage at their Wembley shows in 2007 with jet packs but couldn’t because of bullshit health and safety laws.

The singer once conducted press interviews in New York in a helicopter as he was convinced a meteorite was going to hit causing a tsunami that would wipe out the east coast.

The other inspiring songs in their stellar catalogue are Knights of Cydonia, Uprising and Panic Station.

The two-for-one is English indie rock band Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine and Blood Sport For All (1991) cause the tune rocks hard while having a word to say about boy scouts and all.