Biters
It’s OK to Like Biters
Underrated Records

Another Biters EP? Oh, that’s right, Jack. I guess releasing one outta-this-world album in 2010 wasn’t enough for these power pop superheroes because they’ve gone ahead and dropped yet another five-song masterpiece on us like a sack full o’ diamonds. Seriously, if they keep this up my heart’s gonna explode in a shower of cocktail napkin confetti. But really, can you think of a better way to go? Sure, you’re saying, when I’m balls deep in a teenage scream queen. Well, I got news for ya, friend. This is better than that. I’ll take your juicy thighs and smeared lipstick and raise you an orgy of rock n’ roll, cotton candy, jungle cats, wet tongues, and champagne bubbles. It’s just all sorts of crazy good stuff, ya know? When I had a go at their self-titled EP, I said that  if the Biters weren’t the biggest band in the world real soon that we’d all be doomed, and I believe that now more than ever. So do the Biters apparently, who are doing their part by releasing the most amazing music at a roller-skate pace. It may be OK to like Biters, but it’s better to fucking love Biters. In fact, it’s pretty much mandatory.

Listen to “Melody For Lovers” from It’s OK to Like Biters!

Wig Wam
Non Stop Rock’N'Roll
Frontiers Records

Remember when I reviewed the new Crazy Lixx album awhile back and went on about how their music fueled a lot of my wild nights when I was single and careless? Yeah, well you can throw Norway’s Wig Wam right into that magical mix too because I cranked the hell out of their first two albums, Hard to be a Rock’N'Roller…in Kiev and Wig Wamania during those days, like I wasn’t ever going to make it back home. The usual stand-outs for getting the party going were “Daredevil Heat” or “A Rock’N'Roll Girl Like You” or “Car-Lyle” and before you knew it I was actually reaching for a can of hairspray and some eyeliner. It’s been four years since Wig Wamania (the catchy choruses are still ringing in my ears) and I have no idea what the band’s been up to since then, but if I had to guess I’d say they were probably living large in Japan, where hair metal trumps all, soaking in their Eurovision* fame, getting fat on adulation, and writing more insanely catchy choruses for their new album, Non Stop Rock’N'Roll.

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Crazy Lixx
New Religion
Frontiers Records

Crazy Lixx’s 2007 debut, Loud Minority, was the soundtrack to many crazy nights back when I was out of work and livin’ large off of a sweet severance. I don’t remember how most of those nights ended, of course, but I do remember that every single one of them started with a raucous round of “Dr. Hollywood” or “Love on the Run” as I slipped into my leather jacket and crushed a can of Busch. That party lasted for about eight months and wouldn’t have been half the fun it was if it wasn’t for Crazy Lixx’s brand of Swedish sleaze pop and hairspray heavy metal. I haven’t had much chance to visit Loud Minority lately, though, because I’m an old man with responsibilities now and those alcohol-fueled nights are far behind me, but Crazy Lixx have slithered back into my life with New Religion, coming on like an ice cold shot of Jager, and a part of me longs to make bad decisions once more.

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