Year: 2026Label: PED Psychobilly in Finland has always been a weird subculture in how often it’s barely visible, but still surprisingly big and active. It is rarely featured in music media, and when it is, it’s often somewhat derisively. And … Continue reading BROOMHILL RUNAWAYS: Straightjacket Psycho N Roll
Year: 2026Label: Western Star Records When I recently interviewed Western Star owner Alan Wilson for Finnish rockin’ magazine Big Beat about his new psychobilly project The Coal Dust Cowboys (review here), we talked about songwriting and influences. He mentioned that … Continue reading THE KINGS OF OUTER SPACE: The Things That Make Us Strange
Year: 2026Label: Western Star Records As the old saying goes: don’t fix what ain’t broke. German Dukes Of Tijuana certainly hold this to heart, considering their style of psycho/neobilly doesn’t stray from some very well trod paths. But, like they … Continue reading DUKES OF TIJUANA: Scary Mary
Year: 2026Label: De La Rocka Music Two years after the blistering debut album Nightmare Reborn (review here), Finnish De La Rocka return with a new single. As project mainman Panu De La Rocka discussed in the interview I did with … Continue reading DE LA ROCKA: The Vampire
Year: 2026Label: Western Star Records There’s some very familiar faces behind this unfamiliar name. The Coal Dust Cowboys is a joint venture between Alan Wilson of psychobilly pioneers The Sharks (and owner of Western Star Records) and members of veteran … Continue reading THE COAL DUST COWBOYS: Beneath The Old Slag Heap
Year: 2025Label: Cleopatra Records The Brains are one of those mid-noughties bands who rode in on the rather surprising wave of popularity psychobilly enjoyed back then, thanks to bands like Nekromantix and Mad Sin and, in no small part, the … Continue reading THE BRAINS: Crazy Monster
Year: 2025Label: Voodoo Canapé I quote UK act The Zipheads’ website for a description of their style: “The Zipheads play Rock’n’Roll infused with punk, taking influence from the founding fathers of the 1950s like Little Richard and Chuck Berry, via … Continue reading THE ZIPHEADS: Rock ‘n’ Roll Renaissance
Year: 2025Label: Trommelfell Records Uh oh. We are entering hostile waters now. German Paddlecell define their style as “horror ska and psychobilly.” I’m a big fan of ska, particularly original ska from the late 60’s and early 70’s, but when … Continue reading PADDLECELL: Spooky Jones
Year: 2025Label: Bad Billy Records The 15th of March, 2008. That’s when I first heard The Bullet Biters and knew this was a band worth keeping tabs on. They were still a young band back then, with just a single … Continue reading THE BULLET BITERS: Napalm Over The Rainbow
Release year: 2024Label: Koffin Kats Records I’ll be on the level with ya: US psychobilly act Koffin Kats have never been my favourites. I first got to know them in the mid-noughties, and from the go my opinion of them … Continue reading KOFFIN KATS: Higher Lows
