SCALP/SCACD 195

Two years after the release of their highly acclaimed self-titled debut-album the ATTENTION! from Vienna, Austria return with a BANG! delivering their brandnew longplayer 'Gettin' all ...' to those who are desperately waiting for more insane dance action and give the bleached out face of classic r'n'b a bright new robe.

Those guys celebrate the mod-aesthetics of the swingin sixties in perfection.

Stylish from head to toe they deliver a frantic mixture of traditional blues, soul, beat and r'n'b to all the smart dancers worldwide and re-create a sound which hasn't been heard since those glory days of acts like Bo Diddley, the ANIMALS, the YARDBIRDS, THEM and the SPENCER DAVIS GROUP.

Did you ever shake your tailfeather to the sound of Rock’n-Roll!? Well, here’s your chance – THE ATTENTION! - five lads, armed with their love for  Rhythm&Blues, fuse their infectious beats, catchy riffs and haunting melodies into an explosive, one-of-a-kind mix, that makes you wanna shout and shimmy!

These five hipsters learned their lessons in bluesy licks, soulful shouts and pumping rhythms frighteningly well. So watch out for the heatwave that is called THE ATTENTION! rolling over your town. Make sure to put on your finest pair of dancing shoes and celebrate! 

Just a handful of bands like THE JAYBIRDS, THE WHAT...FOR! and THE MOVING SOUNDS were able to capture the spirit of the distinctive r'n'b sound as precise as THE ATTENTION!

YOU WILL SHOUT AND SHIMMY!!!

The CD version of this album includes their whole debut-longplayer for the first time on CD as a special bonus.

Tracklist

Side 1

01.Blue Heat
02.Have a Drink on me
03.Button-down-Harry's back!
04.Dandy Groove
05.Easy Street
06.That's how strong my Love is

Side 2

01.Let's Dance
02.Tons Of Love
03.The harder They Come
04.Mess Around
05.No one else

CD bonus tracks

01.Ace Face
02.Can't Bring a Good Man Down
03.Shimmynizer
04.Kaisers Dance
05.Blank Love Boogie

067.High Time Baby
07.Beat Machine

08.Alina
09.Ramblers Blues
10.Sea Sea Rider

http://www.theattention.at

http://www.myspace.com/theattentionband

THE DAHLMANNS
"All Dahled Up" LP

SCALP 194

OK! Let's set the record straight. "All Dahled Up" is the best pop album 2011 has to offer! So, what we're talking about is catchy as hell power-pop with a fat, rockin' guitar sound, well executed vocal-lines, ridin'-on-the-waves drums and a crunchy punk feel to it. It simply makes you feel good!

That band that includes members of the mighty pop meisters, the YUM YUMS sounds like the perfect mixture of the before mentioned, the RAMONES and the always wonderful PRIMITIVES.

Just read what Lindsay Hutton, founder of the legendary magazine The NEXT BIG THING and collaborator in MOJO and SOUNDS has to say about these guys and you'll know that there aren't any excuses for not buying this album straight away!!

"What was the tagline on the movie poster for Ghostbusters again?

Oh yeah – “They’re here to save the world”.

Well, that could also be applied to the debut by Norwegian popbusters, The Dahlmanns.

After two EPs, “All Dahled Up” contains 12 effervescent nuggets that mine the entire history of stellar power punk glam rock’n’rollin’ to create a guaranteed show stopper.

The sheer joy of the poptastic crunch that crackles throughout is the sonic equivalent of a case of red bull (other energy drinks are available).

So named because Dahlmann is the actual surname of the two folks that put this game in motion, André and Line assembled a like-minded crew of extended family to make this historic recording – Otto, Pål, Stine and Sebastian all took upon the family crest (ala Ramone) in order that the most fun you’ll hear all year - until their next - could be captured on whatever you call whatever used to be tape these days.

I could gibber for pages and make comparisons to the effect that if you like this – blah – but I won’t. Today I discovered that a very dear friend has never seen “It’s A Wonderful Life” and I’d compare this album to that film because it’ll make you hoot and it’ll move you to tears. Sometimes both at once and let me tell you, it’s no mean feat to make me hoot whilst tearing up. These are mighty frequencies and I openly admit that I’m still speechless when these riffs hit my cerebellum.

As for the lyrics – Line had never written songs before this project happened and what she came up with is like Ellie Greenwich scripting photo stories that you’d see in girl’s comics crossed with John Holmstrom’s Punk magazine.

So, in wrapping this bumf up – “All Dahled Up” has made me believe in the outright power of music to make this fucked up planet a better place. They have the same seismic abilities to pull it off live too. I have witnessed this force of nature first hand and duly testify to that fact - so help me whoever.

I “heart” The Dahlmanns and if you have a rock’n’roll ticker then you will too. “Every chord, every wah-ah-hoo, every tambourine shake” – just sublime."

Lindsay Hutton

Registered Dahlmaniac

This release is strictly limited to 500 copies only!!!

Tracklisting

Side 1:

Candypants
Lonely Boys Brigade
Shake Me Up Tonight
Going Down
Love The Haters
This Time

Side 2:

Bright City Lights
Dancing With Joey Ramone
Get Up, Get Down
Teenage City
I Want You Around
Smash You

http://www.myspace.com/thedahlmanns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiyv2L8-BIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPLu8dAMQ4Y

THE PHANTOM KEYS
"The Real Sounds Of..." LP/CD

SCALP 193/SCACD 193


Ever since we first heard of these five angry young men from Spain, we badly wanted them to be part of the “Screaming Apple Family” and now we’re more than happy and honoured to present their amazing debut album “The Real Sounds Of” as a big favour to all you kiddies out there, who still dig that crazy cavemen beat of the swingin’ sixties.

The PHANTOM KEYS story starts a few years back in a small Galician coastal town (O Grove) when a bunch of hairy teenage weirdos try to emulate the looks and sounds of those ‘no hit wonders’ who made it onto all the obscure 60’s punk compilations, such as “Nuggets”, “Pebbles” and “Back from The Grave”.

Very soon they became wellknown all over the country for their wylde & sweaty live appearances and were ready to record their first vinyl release for the way cool EL BEASTO record label. The result was the fantastic “Velvet illusions/In the summertime” 7” single, a true little masterpiece of authentic 60’s garage-punk, which turned out to be a great succes all over the globe and brought them the offers to play all the great places in Spain and Europe, some festivals in Italy and the U.K. and even the invitation to rock the legendary Cavern Club in Liverpool…Yeah!

After some lineup changes the PHANTOM KEYS decided to go for a more rhythm’n’blues oriented sound in the tradition of bands like the PRETTY THINGS, DOWNLINERS SECT, TELL TALE HEARTS and WYLDE MAMMOTHS, but still keeping up the good ole garage-punk spirit they got famous for and recorded their second 45, “Shut up Johnny / I want to be free”, which got sold out in almost no time, … just like the first one!!

Now, after having played countless memorable shows all across Europe with some of the best bands around, such as The SONICS, The OUTSIDERS, the LYRES and the FUZZTONES and being part of big garage-punk extravaganzas like Le Beat Bespoke and Primitive Fest, the PHANTOM KEYS are ready to present their first album.

“The Real Sounds Of” is a hot, smokin’ platter of pure sixties-punk flavoured rhythm’n’blues and proves once again impressively that the PHANTOM KEYS are one of the biggest sensations on the scene today, still being the same bunch of crazy weirdos they were in the beginning.

Now comb your hair, iron your best suits and dresses, polish your boots and get ready to do the hip shake!!

SCREAMING APPLE gives you …The Real Sounds of THE PHANTOM KEYS!!! A raw, unadulterated teenbeat mayhem!!!

Tracklist:

Side 1:

1.- Im still a mess
2.- Twisted neck
3.- Even if i try
4.- Evil Eye
5.- My last mistake
6.- The drunk chicken walk

Side 2:

1.- Corn Likker
2.- Don't tell me lies
3.- Land (o) Beat
4.- It's better girl
5.- Poor boy
6.- I was true (but I won't be more)


http://www.myspace.com/thephantomkeys

THE CRIMSON SHADOWS

"Nightmares/It's too late" 7"

SCAP 078

After successfully managing to escape a hospital for the musically insane they’re back!
Jens and Måns from the original Crimson Shadows has teamed up with fellow madmen Indy and Ulf, to once again spread the gospel according to Orgh The Caveman.
Caught by the Fuzz many years ago these guys are still getting the best and biggest kicks in a parallell universe known as “the basement” – the uncharted area in the mind where the deepest and darkest caveman truths are buried. Pure instinct and hunger.

These two songs are brand new recordings of vintage Crimson Shadows songs, written a coupla decades back and then some.

'Nightmares' was originally included on a coupla comps, but even though the original version has a great desperate quality to it and some cool fuzz, it is marred by a lame harmonica solo. It even says ‘guitar solo’ on the original text sheet. Anyway, this is finally rectified and now the song sounds closer to what was intended when it was once written. Manic, fuzzed out and paranoid acid punk.

'It’s Too Late' exists on an old rehearsal tape from ’86 and was never recorded in a studio. It still hasn’t been recorded in a studio, as we decided to just set up and record this 45 in the basement where we rehearse! But this time we mixed it aswell. The version presented here is very close to the old one, except we went completely out of our heads during the rave-up.


There’s been many requests for The Crimson Shadows to reunite over the years, but it’s always felt impossible. Finally Jens and Måns just tossed the doubts overboard, forgot about the original members who are still locked up in that hospital, and just went with it.Indy is an exile Texan living in Stockholm since 15 years and a rock’n’roller to the bone.Ulf is the greatest sloppy drummer you’ll ever hear or see. On good days he’s the drummer for The Dee Rangers, and then when it gets a bit crazy he finds himself in the company of The Crimson Shadows. With these guys in the line-up the sound and the vibe of The Crimson Shadows is brought back from the grave once again!

http://www.myspace.com/thecrimsonshadows

THE BOOZE
"Our favourite Booze" LP

SCALP 188

Ladies and gentlemen, please let us introduce you to those five angry young men from Atlanta, Georgia, ... THE BOOZE!

Known as much around town for their sharp fashion sense as for their well-crafted, mod-informed r'n'b and merseybeat, we thought that it's about time to spread the word all over the globe - THE BOOZE certainly stand out !!!

Formed in 2006, the band has already released three incredible albums, "Easybeats in modern time", "Straight, No Chaser" and ''Rebirth of the Cool'' and for this new longplayer we have chosen our favourites tunes from all three of them to give you an idea how truely brilliant this band really is.

It's that perfect mixture of wild ravin' r'n'b, classic 60's pop, blues, soul, garage and mod beat that makes those misfit young folks so special. Genuinely disillusioned with the overall modern state of rock 'n' roll, they create music that speaks their language. And if that language is from forty-five-odd years ago, so be it.

The band offers heartbroken lyrics set to upbeat music, with drummer Shane Human peppering the songs with lively handclaps or a tambourine for percussive decoration. Their songs are catchy as hell and full of smooth guitar tones and pretty "oo-wah" harmonies. Chad Tolliver's scratchy, vocals slightly modernize the tone, but the melodic riffs from guitarists Brian Roberts and Randy Michael bring it straight back to the '60s.

Picture yourself at Pandora's Box seeing the CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND fronted by Mr. Wilson Pickett, or being at The Marquee Club in the early sixties listening to the STONES and Bo Diddley and that's what you get with THE BOOZE!
The blues don't lie!



Tracklist:

Side One

1.No Big thing
2.Cut My Heart Out
3.Hey Amy
4.Aint it the truth
5.There Goes My Girl
6.Hate City Nights
7. The Next Train

Side Two

1.Come on Let the good times roll
2.California Blonde
3.A New Romance
4.Can't stand losing you
5.Solo in Soho
6.Anytime You Leave
7.Trouble in Paradise


http://www.myspace.com/thebooze

MISS CHAIN & THE BROKEN HEELS
"On a bittersweet ride" LP/CD

SCALP 187/SCACD 187

You'll either love her madly or hate her badly. Or both. And she's not alone. Disaster Silva and the Barcella Bros. are Italy's hottest pop sensatiton, THE BROKEN HEELS!!

Together they deliver their unique mixture of rawdy pop, sixties beat and eighties dreams. It ain't no party, it ain't no disco, it ain't no fooling around, just charming songs appealing to your heart, soul, feet and skin!

They're the last craftsmen of the perfect pop song. If you don't like them don't worry, you're probably dead but nobody told you yet.

Lovely Miss Chain (or shall we call her Disaster Silva, ... or maybe just Astrid?!) explains the magic of their amazing debut abum as follows, ...

"On a bittersweet ride, it's like climbing sunshine pop mountains and falling down into groovy bubblegum worlds! Walking on garage punk streets, stomping our feet while dancing to our fav hits!

The KINKS and the BYRDS warm our heart, Phil Seymour and Dwight Twilley gave us the start, SHIVVERS and FLAMIN' GROOVIES made our teenage years, BIG STAR and RASPEBERRIES gave us smiling tears. We grew up with the Nuggets and 60ies Girl group sound, screaming "hold tight" and "I get around" ! Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, oh BADFINGERS's Baby Blue, all we wanna say : BAY CITY ROLLERS we love you !!!!!!!

We sing about holding hands and love for eachother, summertime fun and mellow ballads, underneath a nostalgic vein you will feel but each track will blow your mind for real !! up and down, inside out, come on dance, twist and shout !"

After having released three 45s, the band now comes up with 12 more impressive examples of what real power-pop is all about. This platter is a real little masterpiece. All tunes deliver the perfect blend of classic late 70's power-pop, 60's all-girl group sounds and the minimalistic charme of early punk-rock. We said it before and we will say it again, this band will be HUGE!!! If you really dig the sound of crunchy guitars, be a sucker for songs with the highest possible recognition value and go bananas for a full dose of harmonies, you need to have "On a bittersweet ride".

Tracklist:

Side One

1. Beginning of the end
2. Roller Coaster
3. Diary of a mad housewife
4. Chords and wine
5. Sun goes Down
6. Old man


Side Two

1. Mary Anne
2. Flamingo
3. Up all night
4. Bluebird
5. Common Shell
6.Save me

http://www.myspace.com/misschainandthebrokenheels

THE TWISTAROOS
"Twisted!" LP

SCALP 189

OK! Let's set the record straight. It's the YUM YUMS which become THE TWISTAROOS when they're getting a little tired of doing that good old bubblegum/power-pop thing, starting to play soulful rhythm'n'blues and rock'n'roll, kinda like the DETROIT COBRAS and the FLESHTONES, so you know that you need to have this record anyway!!!

THE TWISTAROOS was conceived one late night at Sin City, a bar in one of the more shady areas of Moss, Norway. The atmosphere was irresponsibly high whipped up by way too many cocktails. The primitive, seductive rythms of garage rock, soul and rocknroll had long ago turned the dance floor to a vipers nest of transpiration exchanging sinners, and it was then the slender singer Ms Goodvibe sporting an outrageously short hemline and an advanced intoxication wiggled up against the no less animated guitar player Morty Mortaroo for the occation impeccably dressed in shirt tails ever so wild and with a multi colored lamp shade on his head. Lets start a dance band, she said, licking her blood red lips. You know, not disco or anything, but the dirty kind that makes things move down below! She looked hopefully into his eyes while finishing yet another double Sin City Cocktail Delight. Seconds earlier Mortaroo had ruled the dance floor, juggling a myriad of young beauties, and it didnt take long before the immortal sounds of Louie Louie appeared in his head: Dadada-Dada-Dadada-Dada Yupp, he knew exactly what she was talking about, so he pushed the lamp shade back with an affirmative blink of the eye: Dance band - you got it! No sooner said than done Otto Gamstaroo, a well known to the music police in Moss, was brought on board as drummer. Der Gamster is a guy who treats his drums as he treats the men who gets in his way, he beats the hell out of them with a Bo Diddley beat. I brought a bass player, Otto said when the band was to make their debut show. He pointed towards a shady-looking gentleman at the end of the bar, already halfway through a stiff drink. This was not to be the last time Otto brought along a friend from the rhythm section circle in town. It was easier that way. They came, did their job, got paid and left. No names no conversation. THE TWISTAROOS will do anything for money. They play weddings, birthdays, funerals, births. All kinds of parties! So book them now; they have expensive habits and need the cash!


Tracklist:

Side One

1. Do the Twistaroo
2. Tough Lover
3. Everybody's gonna get some
4. (Let's go) Where The Action Is
5. The Chase
6. Chills And Fever
7. I like It Like That

Side Two

1. Everybody Say Hey!
2. You Better Run
3. Dog Fight
4. Animal Instinct
5. I'm Ready
6. Baby Baby Baby
7. I May Never Get To Heaven

http://www.myspace.com/thetwistaroos

THE ATTENTION!
"S/T" LP

SCALP 186

The ATTENTION! from Vienna, Austria are going to give the bleached out face of classic r'n'b a bright new robe.Those guys celebrate the mod-aesthetics of the swingin sixties in perfection. Stylish from head to toe they deliver a frantic mixture of traditional blues, soul, beat and r'n'b to all the smart dancers worldwide and re-create a sound which hasn't been heard since those glory days of bands like the ANIMALS, the YARDBIRDS and the SPENCER DAVIS GROUP.

Did you ever shake your tailfeather to the sound of Rock’n-Roll!? Well, here’s your chance – THE ATTENTION! - five lads, armed with their love for Rhythm&Blues, fuse their infectious beats, catchy riffs and haunting melodies into an explosive, one-of-a-kind mix, that makes you wanna shout and shimmy!

These five hipsters learned their lessons in bluesy licks, soulful shouts and pumping rhythms frighteningly well. So watch out for the heatwave that is called THE ATTENTION! rolling over your town. Make sure to put on your finest pair of dancing shoes and celebrate!

Just a handful of bands like THE JAYBIRDS, THE WHAT...FOR! and THE MOVING SOUNDS were able to capture the spirit of the distinctive r'n'b sound as precise as THE ATTENTION!

YOU WILL SHOUT AND SHIMMY!!!

Tracklist

Side 1

1. Ace Face
2. Can't Bring a Good Man Down
3. Shimmynizer
4. Kaisers Dance
5. Blank Love Boogie

Side 2

1. High Time Baby
2. Beat Machine
3. Alina
4. Ramblers Blues
5. Sea Sea Rider

http://www.myspace.com/theattentionband

LES TERRIBLES
"Ils sont formidables!" LP/CD

SCALP 185/SCACD 185

Ready for an amazing 60's dance party? Well, don't forget to bring this platter to the DJ! This band from Paris, France plays an incredible mix of 60's garage-punk & GoGo Beat and now finally returns with their second longplayer 'Ils sont formidables!'.

The band that includes members of THE NO TALENTS, LES SYNAPSES, DUTRONC, CECILIA UND DIE SAUERKRAUTS & OPERATION S goes back to the sound of the French Beat & Roll when it was bitten by the Big Bad British Bug back in 1965. Imagine how THEM, THE SMALL FACES, THE YARDBIRDS or the early STONES would’ve sound if they were from France, never turned professionals and Van Morrison, Keith Relf or Mike Jagger were chicks. All the songs are in French, with that glamorous 'mademoiselle' accent!

The band could've been described best as the great french sixties rock band that should have existed but never did. Owing to cultural impediments and lame business practices, there were very few outstanding french rockers from that period. Ronnie Bird, Larry Greco, and a dozen others you've never heard of: LES TERRIBLES cover them all, and every song makes you wanna dance. The band rounds out their set with some originals, as well as their own french versions of some great foreign songs that never got adapted before, all done with a perfect ear for the style. Fronted by the charming and talented chanteuse Rudie this hard-working orchestre delivers the groove that gets the dance floor moving to the Swim, the Jerk, and the Hully-Gully. Les Terribles are sur scene ! (Jon Dragueur)

A Top 10 forever-must have this one is. What more can we tell you?

Tracklist:

side one

1. Je serai terrible
2. Ce n'est pas une vie
3. Le club
4. Ne joue pas avec mon coeur
5. Ne t'en va pas
6. Où va-t-il?
7. Je bois trop

side two

1. Everything's all right
2. Mademoiselle x
3. Nager
4. Rouge
5. Tu l'as voulue
6. Une fois
7. Pas si terrible

http://www.myspace.com/lesterribles

SHEETAH ET LES WEISSMÜLLER
"Hola Ye-Yeah!" LP/CD

SCALP 184/SCACD 184

¡ Hola Yé-Yeah ! The 5 french psychedelic mod garage punkers SHEETAH ET LES WEISSMÜLLER launch their first album at the world’s stunned face. Sounding like a mix of Ronnie Bird, the SEEDS and the REMAINS they proudly present 11 original compositions and a powerful version of My Little Red Book.

Sheetah et les Weissmuller started their career in 1962 and toured intensively until 1966 when they accidentally swallowed a magic potion that made them travel through time. Landing in september 2001 they kept on playing the music that made them famous many years ago and toured Europe with youngster bands like the FUZZTONES, the BELLRAYS, the PLAYBOYS, the CRYPTONES, CURLEE WURLEE, the MAGNETIX, LES TERRIBLES and many others.

Dance to the anthems of a lucky new degenerated generation of fuzz maniac vixens and dandy cavemen! Sung in French and recorded in Spain on analogic equipement (Estudios Circo Perrotti, Gijon) for best results, this mind-blowing and regressive album will sure make you sweat and get wet on the dance-floor. French beat at it's best! Buy it and come to the show!

tracklist

side one

1. Pire que le silence
2. Quand
3. Cols en dentelle (mais que sais-tu de l’amour?)
4. Hallucinations
5. Le vengeur masqué
6. Chien méchant

side two

1. Mets des badges
2. Ca vient des trips
3. My little red book
4. Cette fille-là
5. Gare au gourou
6. La caverne

http://www.myspace.com/sheetahetlesweissmuller