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This track will be queued up on the iPod (if I’m paying attention) as we hit Portland en route to San Francisco next week on our road trip.  It’s a duet with Jack White from her 2004 album Van Lear Rose.  White produced and played on the album and it features 2/3 of the Greenhornes supplying the bottom end.  Patrick Keeler and Jack Lawrence also happen to be the rhythm section for White’s other (and much more famous) band The Raconteurs but I gotta give props to the Greenhornes when I can.  Dual Mono is one of my desert island discs.

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Everybody… do yourself a favour listen to this track right now.

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Congratulations, you are now enjoying “City Slang” by Sonic’s Rendezvous Band.  Yes, as in Fred “Sonic” Smith, Mr. Detroit High Energy Rock — former guitarist and founding member of the MC5. Shortly after the Motor City Five split up in 1972 Smith rose from the ashes — not unlike a golden phoenix — and formed the Rendezvous Band with a few Detroit hard rock cronies, including Stooges’ drummer Scott Asheton.  SRB enjoyed a short run from 1975-1980 and pretty much existed well under the radar until a slew of re-issues in the last decade or so put their music back in the hands of the record-buying fans.

I picked up their recently re-issued 1978 live album on vinyl at Zulu a couple weeks ago and have been spinning it pretty much in a non-stop loop since I got it. Rock on.

Been listening to these guys’ MySpace page on repeat all day today.  They’re a Vancouver act with a penchant for the raunchy and thick guitar rawk — very reminiscant of Turbonegro… which is the highest of compliments I can pay to a band.  These guys are fucking tight!

Check out the super catchy DXM off their debut LP Haute Voltage (which I just picked up today of InterPunk)

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