
Some pretty tasty things in this go 'round of the Licorice Pizza mailbox purge. There's a cover of an old Sweet song and the first single from a garage band super group. I'll get right to my pick of the month, which is "Bow Down and Die," from The Almighty Defenders, the aforementioned supergroup. It's a funny thing because when I first read the email, I thought these guys had potential to suck. Wrong I was. Their debut album isn't due until September, but this preview of the collab between the Black Lips, King Kahn, and Mark [...]

Roots rocker Charlie Morris hails from the swampy suburbs of St. Petersburg, Florida, and "writes like a man who has been down the road more than a few times" [music writer and DJ Norman Davis]. The Charlie Morris Band mixes up a soulful stew of blues, funk, Louisiana rhythms and jazzy jams behind Charlie's original songs about wayward women, drinking,gambling and life on the road. Charlie's ability to entertain an audience is legendary, and hot solos on slippery slide guitar, organ and piano keep the action moving. Ten Tall Tales will be Charlie's [...]