[Given the “One Minute Singles” theme of Ball of Wax 45, we here at the Blog of Wax have decided to embrace the spirit of brevity in our track reviews, which will come two at a time and one sentence each. Enjoy! -ed]
1) Territory & Hombre‘s “New Episode” is a tribal, psychedelic mushroom cloud of lovely lo fi weirdness from the wilds of Tucson, Arizona.
2) Seattle via Kenosha, Wisconsin’s Sam Russell (with his Harborrats, celebrating their 10th anniversary and BoW 45 at the Sunset on September 2nd) is the realest of real rock and roll deals, and “From the Pulpit” further demonstrates that Sam, to plagiarize an email thread I had with Bart Cameron, is the glorious, living embodiment of Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire.
Somehow I’ve never seen – and maybe never even heard of Streets of Fire. But wow, I gotta check it out.