Boogie Chitz

The Meat Puppets third album - the Kirkwood brothers fire out a catchy collection of psychedelic swingers that help keep weirdness to the front of the American music underground in 1985.

An affectionate curation of the disco-funk-fueled music made by Cameroonian Jo Bisso during his half decade living in America.

Three southern girls that met at band camp bring their garage rock gravitas north to New York City and record a ripper more potent than the purest line of Appalachian meth. The Whole Damn Thing live from Maxwell's in Hoboken 2010 - Look at little Jessi holding that big CHOOCH guitar - https://youtu.be/3lYdlaEg2zY?si=b0sFRCxXmy7xJeUX Be Your Bro from second album - https://youtu.be/TyVs4B26_P4?...

The sunshine pop banger debut from The Mamas & the Papas - a devilish foursome who soundtracked the summer of love before being drowned out of the cultural zeitgeist by the electric guitar gods.

The 'should-woulda-coulda' sixth album from retro-revivalists The Brian Jonestown Massacre - led by the emotionally-compromised Anton Newcombe. Anton going berzerk at the Viper Room 1996(?) https://youtu.be/jSm5optFVUw?si=BOI8pzeljh_jJylr Anton going berzerk in Australia in 2023 https://youtu.be/3MKRAzCkJfM?si=06lmZxqMulq4sRaA

Despite the occasional TMC (Too Much Chuck) moments, Introduce Yourself is a fun listen and criminally-ignored glance at a weird underground band right before they blast off toward the MTV universe. *** Follow @boogiechitz on Instagram *** *** 1988 music video for Anne's Song *** https://youtu.be/w7dD-JJJytM?si=LIiZIEqkhU89jQfk

Aerosmith's breakthrough third album is proof that hard work pays off - even while wearing a bedazzled, penis-flattening pelican unitard.

Oh, Inverted World is a vivid, pop masterpiece that provides indie-cred to the men who make mangina music.

Red dirt riffer J.J. Cale's songs were more known for being covered by other artists, but the creator of the 'Tulsa Sound' is not to be ignored - his catalogue is stuffed with swampy ravers - my favorite being 1976's Troubadour.

We got a fresh one here - released only a month ago - Ibibio Sound Machine merges 1990s fly-girl drum and bass with Afrobeat to pump out Pull the Rope. Put on your best lycra onesie and get ready to dance your way to the next Ekpo Masquerade! Follow Boogie Chitz on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/boogiechitz?igsh=ZTFvYTg1cDB6dGZ6&utm_source=qr [instagram.com]  

Named after a type of blotter acid, TAD's second album 8-Way Santa got a little lost in the shuffle of the 1991 Rise of the Grunge Hunx, but that certainly doesn't diminish it's pounding potency.

Post-post punk dance madness with At the Hotspot - the fourth album from (mostly) British band Warmduscher. Stuffed with hypnogogic funk reminiscent of decadent 1970s Fear City and Miami, At the Hotspot is just as much fun as it is absurd.

A celebration in simplicity. On her fourth album, 2021's Cool, Colleen Green makes catchy, colorful melodic magic out of songs largely structured with restraint. I love this album so much.

The Dillards were the first band to bring the backwoods shredfest genre known as bluegrass out west. Within one year of their arrival in Los Angeles in 1962, The Beverly Hilldillards landed a recording contract with Elektra, a supporting role on the Andy Griffith Show and released Back Porch Bluegrass - fifteen metallic-acoustic rippers that serves as a fantastic introduction to traditional bluegr...

The central African Republic of Cameroon is partially located in the Congo Basin - one of the greenest lungs in the world - but nevermind botanicals and giant frogs, we're here for the funk. Jean Marie Taim and Maurice Foty Kembiwo aka J.M. Tim & Foty, were a Cameroonian musical duo that released a series of funk-infused banger LPs in the late 1970s - and we shall explore and enjoy the fir...

Def Leppard's fourth album Hysteria is a hit machine - one of the biggest selling albums of all time. Released in 1987 and armed with seven hit songs, 'Thriller with a Mullet' was the biggest adversary to the emerging Hair Hunx dynasty at the time and continues to soundtrack our lives and pad cover band setlists to this day.

The only two likable members of iconic Vietnam War soundtrack band Jefferson Airplane peel away from the group in 1972 and put together a side project called Hot Tuna. Their debut studio album Burgers is pure back porch boogie warmth compared to the bloated and cold catalog of their main band. Classic rock stoner deep tracks all up in this one.

This is the album to start with if you're looking to cash in your PJ Harvey V-card. Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea is really just one story - an iconoclastic musician letting loose and enjoying her life. Then again, PJ Harvey says that most of her songs are not autobiographical, so who knows what.

Before they morphed into a lower-tier hair hunk outfit, T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty) were a troublemakin’ L.A. punk band. Their debut album Dance With Me is an under-the-radar banger that replaces the anarchist anti-Reagan punk bend of the time with humorous songs about death in various forms.

A half hour of bursting instrumental beauties from the second most famous person from Fredon, NJ.

More Songs About Buildings and Food is the Talking Heads second album and the first of three masterpieces with Brian Eno riding shotgun. This is the LP where the Talking Heads find their sound in real time and begin a decade-long journey making asexuality...danceable.

King Diamond was already a metal legend when he put out the semi-conceptual The Spider's Lullabye in 1995. It's almost an afterthought for King D - he considered it forgettable and difficult to make. For Boogie Chitz, The Spider's Lulz is a classic and contains some of the best 1990's dance beats this side of La Bouche - despite being a thematic European heavy metal record.

The Pleasure Seekers were formed by the headstrong teenaged Quatro sisters of Detroit in 1964 and might just be the first all-female rock & roll band in cultural American history. They didn't record a full-length LP during their five-year run, but in 2011 the What a Way to Die compilation was released and provides us with a twelve track song history of a mighty awesome band that would othe...

If you're looking to get loose with some Euro-Disco - Giorgio is your man and 1977's From Here to Eternity is the place to start. Giorgio Moroder is often cited as the 'Father of Disco' for his string of bangers with Donna Summer - and his work as composer on the soundtracks of some of Hollywood's biggest movies of the 1980s is equally compelling.

For a band that only released two albums, and was around for such a short period of existence, the New York Dolls impact and influence on rock and roll has been extraordinary. Their eponymous 1973 debut album barely made it out of lower Manhattan at the time of release, but has grown into a cult classic and is universally regarded as the sonic prototype for the creation of punk music that would fo...