
Johnny Thunders feeds on lightning " The Heartbreakers blew everyone away, for no more reason than that they were just more experienced -- they had their roots in R&B and rock 'n' roll. They were able to go onstage and draw on all that, whereas these kids ( The Damned , Clash , and Sex Pistols ) couldn't draw on anything yet. Real rock 'n' roll would start to happen and there's no fighting that, no getting around that. No matter how anarchic an audience thinks it is, [...]

a sweet compilation of christmas songs from some of the US's foremost garage rock bands of the time. ::: the shitbirds - christmas is a comin' ::: the junkyard dogs - brand new bike ::: claw hammer - the night before christmas ::: the devil dogs - i wish it could be christmas every day ::: rocket from the crypt - cancel christmas ::: the humpers - run, run rudolph ::: jackknife - santa claus never forgets ::: new bomb turks - christmas (baby, please come home) ::: red aunts - little drummer bitch ::: monsieur jeffrey evans [...]

I felt like coming out of left field with something for tonight's post. And – based on the scarcity of Google results for this band – I may have succeeded. The Humpers hail from Snoop Dogg's hometown of Long Beach, Calif., but that's really the only thing the two have in common. The University of Michigan's Daily News called The Humpers "five greasy guys rocking the way that punk was meant to," and said, "This is the kind of music that your parents, actually, most everyone but old-school [...]