If you're not into hard rock, it can difficult to explain what's so charming about Budgie. They aren't over-the-top or chaotic sounding (their songs are sometimes absurdly mannered and precise) or emotionally distraught like metallish bands are "supposed" to sound.

A little something about Britney Spears' pussy (NSFW).

The first thang about the Heavies' sound that grabbed me was the booming, overmodulated Hammond bass drone that is a signature of their best tunes.

Every time the Candy Snatchers played NYC, it had the feel of a violent but friendly homecoming party, an exotic mix of the city's more open-minded garage kids, rockers and bonehead punx getting trashed and bumping into each other.

The quintet known as Very Be Careful were an instant party.

As I mentioned last post, it's close to the one-year anniversary of the TOE STUBBER fast-food franchise. It is my strongest hope that the site has meant more than a drop of piddly piss in a sea of boring, self-aggrandizing mp3 blogs created by bald white dudes. I want it to be more like a powerful, gushing stream of piss.

What kind of father am I? Toe Stubber hit another so-called-writer's block and allowed so much time to elapse that we didn't even acknowledge the one year anniversary of TOESTUBBER.COM.

Two years ago, a Bay Area christian band decided to "cover" this song. The Knights of the New Crusade are a collection of born-again garage rockers whose unusual ministry calls them to proselytize in a rather smug, take-no-prisoners manner that some unbelievers perceive as a tad obnoxious.

Paul Gonzalez, the Onions' diminutive frontman, packs enough natural soul and jagger-swagger into his performance to make all the babies swoon. There's no counting the number of times these kids have splashed their Mexi-sweat on eager Southern Cali audiences... that includes the floor-shredding show I once witnessed at Silverlake's now-lost all-ages punk venue/skate shoppe, Juvee.

Menace are definitely on the oi side of punk, and their catchiness opened up a whole world of English streetpunk and oi that I'd been ignorant of.