This charging young U.K. garage rock outfit, led by bassist/vocalist, Mark Whittaker, blaze the path carved out by Billy Childish (especially The Milkshakes and The Mummies), The Monks and Mersey Beat. The quartet's new release, Psychotic Beat!, is an impressive collection on Dirty Water Records - going a cut above than the current ocean of garage acts, due to their strong songwriting and sincere dead-on energy.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10 PM-MIDNIGHT
Galang (Trio Riot Version)/ VIJAY IYER TRIO (’10, Historicity)
Sea Seizure (No. 19)/ MARY HALVORSON QUINTET (’10, Saturn Sings)
Disappear/ SONIC YOUTH (’90, Goo)
Pen/ THE SIMPLE ONES (’95, Worth the Weight)
Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)
Sugarcube/ YO LA TENGO (’97, I Can Hear the Heart Beat as One)
All’s Quiet on the Eastern Front/ THE RAMONES (’81, Pleasant Dreams)
Hello There/ CHEAP TRICK (late ‘90s, Albini Sessions)
Clampdown/ THE CLASH (’79, London Calling)
Problems/ THE SEX PISTOLS (’77, Never Mind the Bollocks…)
Brothers Gonna Work It Out/ PUBLIC ENEMY (’90, Fear of a Black Planet)
Bombast/ THE FALL (’85, This Nation’s Saving Grace)
Idiot Son/ RED RED MEAT (’94, Bunny Gets Paid)
Resolution/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’10, Northern Aggression)*
Lucidity/ TAME IMPALA (’10, Innerspeaker)*
Open My Eyes/ THE NAZZ ('68)
Earn Enough For Us/ XTC (’86, Skylarking)
All Around the Houses/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’03, Truly She is None Other)
Swing Set/ THE CUTTERS (’01, Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!)
Take Me Down to The Hospital/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’83, Hootenanny)
7 and 7 Is/ LOVE ('67)
Monkey Mess/ THEE VICARS (’10, Psychotic Beat!)*
Blood Dries Darker/ WOODS (’10, At
These Boots Are Made For Walkin’/ NANCY SINATRA (’66)
Little Miss Queen of Darkness/ THE KINKS (’66, Face to Face)
Willow Weep For Me/ PETE MOLINARI (’10, A Train Bound For Glory)
River Man/ NATACHA ATLAS (’10, Mounqaliba)
*new or recent release
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