Try It Before You Buy It

Don't know what's going on? Try these on for size:

Three brothers and a cousin have established themselves as the rockinest rockers out there and my personal favorites. Their latest doesn't hit your corner record shop until April 3, but dubious efforts and sources have provided an advance copy. Check a sample:

Kings of Leon - My Party

Badass, right? Right.



Also worth a listen is this one, from SCOTS new album of covers, Countrypolitan Favorites. It's no Bolan, but it sounds pretty smooth...

Southern Culture on the Skids - Life's A Gas


SCOTS will be playing their yearly 5 night stand at Austin's Continental Club March 27 - 31. Don't write 'em off, 'cause they got good time chops, guaranteed.



Out of Dundee, Scotland come these guys, who apparently have had the same jeans on for four days now. I can dig it.

Haven't heard any more yet - the album is out in March. I do know that they had to cancel their US live debut, including SXSW, due to work visa troubles.

The View - Same Jeans

Supposedly Amy likes booze, and is intent on making a public spectacle of the whole thing. Don't know much about that (the British are easily aroused, god love 'em), but this sounds like a Funk Brothers backing track from 1966:

Amy Winehouse - Rehab

What do you do when your band is called The Brokedown and you find out that another band is already called The Brokedown? You change you name to The Broken West!?

A couple of these dudes are former members of Austin's own The Glass Family, til they beat it to El Lay. This is just out, and sounds...good.

The Broken West - Down in the Valley



And finally a patriotic as all hell selection from the Naked Trucker and T-Bones. Ripped from the "uncensored" video on the website.

I LOVE AMERICA too, Trucker............Popcorn!

Naked Trucker's American Dream