The Hives - Rigor Mortis Radio

 

1. Who are The Hives? 

The Hives are a garage rock band from Fagersta, Sweden. They have been making music since 1993 and Rigor Mortis Radio (July, 2023) is the third single off their sixth album The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons (Aug, 2023). 

2. What kind of song is Rigor Mortis Radio? 

Rigor Mortis Radio is a jaunty radio-friendly garage rock song with hand claps and wide appeal to the masses about having the confidence to live life your own way. It carries just enough spark of originality to survive on my playlist as a guilty pleasure. 

3. Which bands do The Hives sound like? 

They are often compared to bands like The Jets, The Vines, The Fratellis, The Von Bondies.  

4. Which bands influenced The Hives? 

Their early influences are said to be Rancid, The Dead Kennedys, Turbo Negro, and New Bomb Turks. 

5. What did the sycophants in the press say about Rigor Mortis Radio?

"Swaggering" - Stereogum.

"Feral energy, a garage punk fizzer to sit along the greats" - Clash Music.

"A slice of grinding stomping and insanely infectious Garage Punk - 100 Word Song Review.

"Here's how much longer I can stand your shit,

I'm gonna hold it back, this tongue in crack,

It's gotta end I'm not an evening snack"

Polish Club - Come Party

1.    Who are Polish Club?

Polish Club are a bluesy/soulful garage rock duo from Sydney, Australia. Come Party (Feb’17) is the second single from their second album Alright Already (March’17). 

2. What's Come Party sound like? 

Soul singing, pop harmonies, furious drumming and steady garage-rock riffs all come together into a party anthem. Come Party is an unhinged rush of rock'n'roll.

3. Who do Polish Club sound like? 

The Vines, Death From Above 1979 and Black Lips. 

4. What have the press said about Come Party?

“An unstoppable powerhouse” – The AU Review. 

“Rollicking garage rock” – Tone Deaf.

“A non-stop sweaty fest of garage-rattling rhythms and gut-busting singing” – Triple J.

5. Which bands have influenced Polish Club? 

The White Stripes, Otis Reading, Blackstreet, The Vines and Mariah Carey. 


6. Why should I give Come Party a gander? 

Because you love soul vocals and garage guitar.


7. What are Polish Party's best songs?

Come Party is the top of the pile. But don't eschew Beat Up, Beeping, or My House.

8. Any more words? 

Polish Club recorded five or so songs in Los Angeles at the behest of Rob Cavallo (producer of Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls and My Chemical Romance) but felt the songs weren’t true to the band so they didn’t release them. 

“Oh baby I ain’t foolin’,

So honey quit your droolin’”

The Vines are a garage rock band from Sydney, Australia. Making a fucking racket since 1994 they have recorded six albums together. The Vines are similar to The Hives, The Von Bondies and The Subways. They are influenced by The Kinks, Nirvana and Queens Of The Stone Age. Get Free is the second single from their debut album Highly Evolved (2002), both their most commercially and critically popular album. NME voted Highly Evolved their second most popular album of the year and Pitchfork described Get Free as starting “with a riff that sounds like revving up a lawnmower” and having an “extra catchy bridge tacked on to make it an even bigger hit.” Get Free is two minutes of no-nonsense garage rock'n'roll.

“She never loved me,

Why should anyone?”

VANT - Parking Lot

 



 

1. Who are these intense looking individuals and why do they like they want to trash the house and bugger the cat?

VANT are a punk rock band from London, England. They have been creating searing tunes since 2014. Parking Lot (Sept'15) comes blazing off their second seven inch of the same name. They have come like the four horsemen to right the injustices of the world.

2. What kind of tune is Parking Lot?

A big ass rocker with a chorus as sticky as a paedos hands after a kindy visit and with garage punk stylings.

3. Who do VANT sound like?

Parking Lot minded me of Pretty Vicious straight off the bat and then Jet, The Vines and The Subways after a bit of thought. Even early Foo Fighters and late Ramones at a stretch.

BBC Radio think if you like Circa Waves, The Strokes or Queens of the Stone Age you will like VANT. QOTSA? For fucks sake you knob jockeys. NME reckon they sound like MC5 warring with Death From Above 1979. The Sunday Times are minded of The Strokes, The Vines, The Manic Street Preachers and The Vines. Clash Music were feeling good Green Day too.

4. What is the good word from the press?

The jackals are feeling the love. Josepvinaixa nailed Parking Lot summing it up as,“A perfect radio-ready rock anthem with a killer chorus.” “A fast, furious and fiery grunge beast,” left fielded Gigwise. “A concoction of stop-start riffs and fiery grunge dynamics”, said Banquet Records, leaving me to reconsider the meaning of ‘grunge’ before Clash Music went up the guts with, “Sagacious garage punk with a groove.”

5. Who are VANT’s influences?

The band get their fire from The Kinks, Frank Black, Fugazi, The Clash, Rage Against The Machine and The Pixies.

Front man Mattie Vant's recent playlist features Wavves,Ty Segal, Tame Impala, Spring King, Clean Cut Kid and Dan Croll among others.

6. Why should I give Parking Lot a spin?

Does anyone remember rock'n'roll with something to say? It's a god damn pleasure to write about bands like this and Louis Berry but it's also as rare as rocking horse shit. Most important Parking Lot has a massive grinding rock sound as hard as being butt fucked with the muddy end of a barge pole, married to a chorus that is so contagious Thai hookers have been issued a health warning.

7. Do VANT have any more bangers?

The Answer is the real deal. A proper showstopper featuring lyrics like “Keep sucking my dick, while my friend fucks your momma” and actually has something to say about the aggression of Western foreign policy and the cost in the east. Do You Know Me? is sound as a pound too.

8. Is there anything else I should know?

On the topic of Parking Lot Mattie Vant has said, “ ‘Parking Lot’ is about boundaries and how people don't respect each other enough. It's to do with the choices we make, particularly when young, and the way those choices can affect other people.’

On the topic of song writing Mr Vant testified, “My concerns are worldwide things. It’s not strictly centred around the UK - it’s wars, global conflict, global warming.”

The band have been on fluffer duties for Royal Blood and fronted shows for The Bohicas, Blossoms and FIDLAR.
 

“ Like a gunshot in a parking lot
No one heard, no one saw ”

 

 

 

Todays slippery seconds is courtesy of Illinois alternative rocker Ike Reilly. The man has words to day about the current political climate in the States on Hangin' Around (2014). He is signed to Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave guitarist, Tom Morello's, Firebrand Records. Tom said of Ike, “In my view, he's one of the best American songwriters of the last 10 years, both in delivery and lyrics. It's, like, part Springsteen, part Replacements.” Hangin' Around is a hard rocking number with a punk message and is the lead track from his highly rated 2015 album On Fire.
 

“I would lick the sweat of the human resource boss

Just to get a little time with her outside of these gates”