Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray are Heavy Trash. There is a secret place where even the best-intentioned rockabilly explorations are scarred by dirty guitars, bad dreams, and lust gone wrong, where murder ballads rub up against filthy R&B and frantic rock'n'roll, where country ruminations drip with echo and sadness. This is where Spencer and Verta-Ray fermented their very souls and gave birth to Heavy Trash, the perfect soundtrack for boozy all-night throw downs, pettin' parties and psychedelic fright shows. Mr. Spencer, of course, is the shudder and shake behind the Blues Explosion and one of the most exciting performers in rock'n'roll today. Mr. Verta-Ray chopped heads with Speedball Baby and with six razor-sharp strings he carved these songs from raw tombstone and committed them to tape in his basement studio in New York's Lower East Side. (Yep Roc)

hey rads, have you heard the new Witchcraft album entitled "Firewood"? it's on Rise Above recs, and i think you might dig it.

Thanks for the link, Dalen, but the Witchcraft mp3 doesn't do much for me. They seem like an interesting band, it's just that it's very reminiscent of Black Sabbath and goddammit do I ever dislike Black Sabbath. But I'm not a metal fan at all, so I'm not the target audience.

Radcliffe, you are using a copyrighted image which you stole from a website for your avatar. Please remove at once.

Radcliffe, you are using a copyrighted image which you stole from a website for your avatar. Please remove at once.