Video: Crazy Lixx - In The Night * New Single 2012

Maybe it’s a longing for simpler, better times, but I’ve found myself listening to a lot of 1980s-influenced hard rock lately, both comebacks from bands of the era and newer acts that play the style. Perhaps no one I’ve heard nails it better than Sweden’s Crazy Lixx. Riot Avenue is the band’s third release, but it’s my introduction, and I [...]

It's awesome when an awesome band makes awesome record. Then, it's super-awesome when they combat dangerous expectations for its follow-up via an awesome addition (another guitarist!) and a move to spotlight their frontman's awesome songwriting skillz (producing the album themselves!). That's smart awesome! And that is Crazy Lixx, whose 2010 record New Religion totally ripped in that [...]