New Fix For Vinyl Junkies

The Surf Rats are working on the vinyl release of their 3rd album 'Welcome To Killafornya' which they self-released last year. It's gonna be a 10" with all new mixes, again released by the band. Some new versions can be heard on their My Space site now. My feelings about the album are mixed. The band's debut LP 'Trouble' is without a doubt a genre classic and 'must have'. That's something I couldn't say already about the follow up 'Straight Between The Eyes', which was rather mediocre but already showed the direction the band would take on later releases they did under the name of 'Love Cowboys'. Now with the third 'real' Surf Rats album the band got stranded somewhere between the first one, and the Love Cowboys stuff. There are some great old-school Psychobilly songs on it but also quite a few Reverend Horton Heat alike Rock-billy songs I don't care much for.

The complete 80s recordings of legendary german Western-Rockabilly band The Roughnecks have been re-released as 2-LP set by Mad Drunken Monkey Records, a small label from Germany. The bands' original releases on Korea Records(7",12", LP) have been sold on Ebay for a lot of Euros in the last years but if you didn't want the CD re-release on Crazy Love that was what you had to pay. Well, these days are over.  Now you can have the songs on vinyl again. For a short time, as the release is limited to 500 copies.

Speaking about Crazy Love Records. Guido just released the latest Quakes album 'Negative Charge' on vinyl, 110 of them in blue. At this point blue copies are still available but you never know for how much longer so better order right NOW!