Category: A Rock and a Roll

What We’re Listening To (August 8, 2024)

Elles Baily – 1972

Her latest single, “1972” was released in advance of her upcoming album, Beneath The Neon Glow, celebrates doing our best to live in the moment just like in 1972. The record is set to see the light of ear later in the year.

Kyle Daniel (feat. Maggie Rose) – Fire Me Up

One of the best contemporary Southern artists in the game today, old-school meets new-school on this backwoods charmer, “Fire It Up.” Produced by Jaren Johnston of The Cadillac Three, this single is from the newly released long-player, Kentucky Gold.

Gorilla Riot – Molotov Sister

There is more than a little Rolling Stones swagger on this grunge-adjacent single from Manchester’s own Gorilla Riot. The new record, Salvation, coming out in October is set to be epic.

Blues Pills – Bad Choices

It’s no secret that here at Rock is the New Roll we carry the torch for Blues. With their latest, “Bad Choices,” we are treated to a head-shaking bombast of Blues Rock courtesy of the best front women in Rock.

Austin Gold – The Wire Defines

There is nothing like a bit of Night Ranger-adjacent AOR to take you back to the days of your youth riding around in your El Camino with Eddie Money blasting on the cassette player with the smoke so heavy you can barely see out of the windshield.

Video of the Day: The Martial Arts – Friends For Fools

Having spent years applying his trade on the Scottish music scene with BMX Bandits, Primary 5, and several others, Paul Kelly with his band moniker The Martial Arts offers up an ebullient power pop wonderment from their upcoming record In There Like Swimwear. And yes, there is cowbell.

What We’re Listening To (July 29, 2024)

The Warning – Keep Fed

Coming out in 2024 with the buzz of label mates Greta Van Fleet, The Warning is a rock and roll sister trio from Monterrey that is showing some serious swagger on their latest record, Keep Fed. Halestorm by way of Queens of the Stone Age are proper touch points here with their Spanish-language single “Que Mas Quieres” holding court as an example of their energized sound.

Honey Joy – Live 100%

With a joyously punk sound in The Ramone’s territory, the infectious single from their latest album sounds like an 80’s classic. “The world’s on fire and maybe I drink too much.”

Shotgun Mistress – Mary Jane

Borrowing Electric Mary’s Rusty Brown for some vocal swapping, this single from Kings of the Revolution could have been on a flyer ripped down from a light pole on the Sunset Strip in 1979. These guys will make Ratt, Aerosmith, and Motley Crue blush.

Gyasi – Rock N’ Roll Swordfight

It takes some real self-confidence to come out with a second record that is a live recording, but when you have the swagger of a lion in a field of sheep you make your own rules. The entirety of Rock N’ Roll Swordfight blasts across your speakers like a Kiss or Bowie ‘74 bootleg putting the glam in glam-rock.

Recorded old-school live in small venues across the country the songs from “Cheap High” to “Sugar Mama” assault your senses the way MC-5 and Kiss did back in the day. This is the party-hardy record you need for these wretched times.

Redd Kross – Candy Coloured Catastrophe

And, speaking of Glam, this time of the Power Pop variety, we are clicking our heels to the blast from the past latest single from Canadian stalwarts Redd Kross and “Candy Coloured Catastrophe.”