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INTERVIEW: Big Dad Ritch of Texas Hippie Coalition Talks 25 Years of Rock and Country, and Two New Albums

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Keefy caught up with Big Dad Ritch of the long-running Outlaw Rockers Texas Hippie Coalition! The band has always done everything big and with a ton of style, so it’s no surprise that to celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2026, they released two new records! “Stoned Cowboys” cements their deep country roots with a ton of soulful lyrics and singing, while “Band Of Outlaws” is as heavy and brash as any album the band has ever done! Both were released via their brand-new record label, Big Dad Records, on September 11th 2026! Ritch catches up with us and takes us on a journey through time and music!  Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Wizard Tattoo – When God Had Hands

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Wizard Tattoo from Indianapolis have been putting out records since 2022, prior releases including 2022’s S/T EP, 2023’s Fables of the Damned debut full-length, and 2024’s Living Just for Dying and One of these Knives EPs. There’s also the Living Just for Knife Fighting compilation, which compiles the aforementioned 2024 EPs and is worth picking up for the bonus covers of Motörhead, Danzig, and Helmet alone. 

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ALBUM REVIEW: Truck Violence – The Weathervane is my body

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Canadian Folk-Punks Truck Violence built a great deal of buzz with their 2024 debut, and their sophomore release, The Weathervane is my body (The Flenser),  finds them scaling back some of the backwoods folk that colored their first album and digging deeper into the Noise Rock side of the equation. This brings a more angular dissonance to the songs. The vocals are a mix of moans and howls over the boozy attack of guitar with a precise ugliness to create something beautiful. Some of these moments might not be as overtly metal as a band like Chat Pile, though this album would appeal to the less metal-minded members of their fan base. It is a different shade of the dark corners of an unsettled mind through a more pastoral lens. Continue reading →