7/31/09
7/14/09
Bob Hocko and The Swamp Rats - Disco Still Sucks
Formed in McKeesport, PA, a small town near Pittsburgh, the Swamp Rats released a handful of garage rock singles in 1966-1967 that got some local airplay and sales, but never broke out into national visibility. At their most scorching, those singles were in some ways a little ahead of their time, linking the fury of mid-'60s garage rock with the heavier, fuzzier, more over the top and crazed pre-metal rock of late-'60s bands like the MC5 and the Stooges. Their attack was dense and almost bludgeoning, paced by some particularly bulging-eyed, throat-rending scream-singing, usually with Bob Hocko on lead vocals. They evolved out of the far poppier, though quite good, Pittsburgh-area band the Fantastic Deejays, who did half a dozen or so singles of their own, most of them in a far poppier British Invasion-indebted style than the Swamp Rats would adopt.
7/10/09
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