Boogie Chitz

The men who make Mangina Music suffer for us. They play with soft hands for our hard hearts - and we need to give thanks. Lord Huron's Strange Trails is a sprawling hallucinatory masterpiece that I'm pretty sure is way more popular than I think it is. It's also long and emotional - they're gonna need some assistance from the Canseco twins.

Several years before Parliament Funkadelic grew into a multi-banded gang of diaper daddies traveling around the country in a crack-fueled spaceship, there was Maggot Brain - a standalone gift of collective imagination and a sonic pillar of the early-1970's Lori Lightfoot Era of American black music.

We enter the Guns N' Roses Herpeverse via the band's second album G N' R Lies which contains songs recorded both before and after their historic Ape Tit debut. Initially released as a Geffen Records pacifier until the unpredictable band's next LP, Lies is an undervalued dudless wonder that bookends the group's opening volley toward global ambassadorship.

Holy Fuck are pure punk electronica - creating dance music using everything BUT the standard loops and laptops to achieve that sound. This chaotic urgency is never more apparent and beautiful than on LP from 2007. Songs born out of improvisational jamming and then refined for record.

With so many time-ambiguous single song bangers, it's tough to not classify The Cars as a 'greatest hits' band. But 1979's Candy-O is as cohesively beautiful as a standalone LP can get. And thank Christ The Cars got hot BEFORE the launch of MTV because they never would have gotten a glance with THOSE mugs.

Pantera ditch their hair hunk past yet keep the gay superhero band name and begin their groove metal assault on the nineties with Cowboys From Hell.

Mbaqanga was a style of music birthed in the segregated South African township of Soweto in 1964. The super-unit of Simon 'Mahlathini' Nkabinde, Mahotella Queens and the Makgona Tsohle Band pumped out a volley of bouncy mbaqanga classics before the genre fell out of township taste in the late 1970s. The genre received a global re-up during the 1980s however, when several popular albums by American...

One of a kind delight. A fictional band from a fictional television show creates a very-real compendium of sonic pleasure. Plus, we put the Hermanos Cansecos into action and show what happens to members of Boogie Chitz bands that quit.

A chugging audio compote of cinematic psychedelia created by a garage rock lovin' couple from Perpignan, France. The Limiñanas are generally a two-person operation, but Shadow People is loaded with guests including one from Boogie Chitz past.

Seems like by 1970 Steppenwolf were already becoming a two-hit relic of the cultural past. Nonsense. Steppenwolf 7, which is technically their fifth album, is a furious nine-track assault that sounds like cocaine psychosis set to boogie rock. Love it.

A neck-to-nuts banger of a synth album found in a genre mostly celebrated via individual songs and videos rather than LPs. Upstairs at Eric's contains by my count three 'oh yeah I know that song' songs that are probably recognizable to the greater American public.

Marination/Hibernation season is ovah for the class of 2023. Let us celebrate one of the stronger bears to emerge from the cave - or in this case frogs...ManFrogs.

Grimes dropped out of college before uncorking this masterpiece - created during a nine-day frenzy of imagination in her Montreal apartment. Good. Class dismissed.

Los Angeles 1983. While the hair hunx were leaving leather pant ass prints on the hoods of laundromat dryers, bands of the Paisley Underground scene were quietly cranking out sixties-style jingly-jangly psychedelia across town. The Rain Parade were the shortest-lived of all the P.U. bands, but their debut album Emergency Third Rail Power Trip helped garden just as much musical fruit of the future...

After five wild years playing together as a support band for other artists, the corduroy boys of The Band find their original voice in the basement of a house in West Saugerties, New York and begin a near-decade run of rustic rapture.

Penza Penza is an Estonian big band/lo-fidelity sonic buzzsaw led by multi-instrumentalist/composer Misha Panfilov. Their fourth LP called Alto E Primitivo is fourteen instrumental rippers that could mow thru the thickest of Baltic bush.

Filled with breezy melodic beatitudes that are impossible not to enjoy, It's a Shame About Ray is an underrated alt-rock classic that proved Evan Dando did indeed deserve his lemon lordship. {{{Gracias Hermanos Cansecos}}} https://youtu.be/EzKcxQGOKKE?si=st8Z_R3rMnPmyxHC

Curtis Mayfield dropped a winner in 1972 with the Super Fly soundtrack. A masterwork so dense that its songs musically narrate the film while still maintaining accessibility to be plucked for off-the-reservation playlists. Your main boy, thick and thin.

For their sophomore effort, the sextet of Scandinavian riff-raffers known as Viagra Boys seek fresh musical adventures in less-shrimpy waters - and ultimately discover bang city with Welfare Jazz.

The slightly off-kilter art punk of The Sugarcubes was the first rock music from Iceland to gain ears in America. The band's debut album - Life's Too Good - is a bouncy masterwork and the world's introduction to Bjork - who by the way, is the SECOND weirdest singer in this band.

In 1969, Sly & The Family Stone were flower power royalty - a racially-mixed pop powerhouse armed with a slew of hits destined to soundtrack the Valtrex commercials of the future. Sly followed up on this glory by locking himself in his mansion loft with enough drugs to down the Hell's Angels and created a masterpiece out of the madness - There's a Riot Goin' On. Trouble funk is her...

Royal Trux were king and queen of the scuzzrock prom when they got signed to Virgin Records in 1995. Two years later, Virgin couldn't get rid of them fast enough and RTX made their best album on their way out the door - Accelerator - a masterpiece molded out of the sludge of confusion.

The album that broke the band in America - Out of Our Heads is the musical bridge connecting the Rolling Stones American R&B-cosplay past with their Richards/Jagger-juggernaut future.

The Budos Band sprinkle some Ethiopian jazz into their menacingly-infectious sophomore album released on Daptone Records at the height of retro-soul revivalism in 2007. Full-time funk from a part-time band. * The Budos Band live in the Netherlands in 2008 * https://youtu.be/IkgD6AwsPZM?si=3hfoNHuY1jBqnQtk * Musicawi Silt by Hailu Mergia * https://youtu.be/r9pLeol6A9s?si=iPIf20IT-hUzJije

John Cale's scrappy solo debut recorded the year after leaving the Velvet Underground. His half century of creating high art out of low living begins here with Vintage Violence.