Libby Lux, lead singer of the Bridge City Sinners, fits the bill pretty well, but as you say, no mohawk. I feel like once you get into the folk-punk/psychobilly scene, the default is more often rockabilly greaser/pinup than punk but there’s exceptions to everything.
Edit: Also, their particular flavor of satanic folk-punk is particularly good, if you’re into that sort of thing. I think they do a pretty good job of writing catchy songs with a mashup of B-movie pulp (a la The Cramps or the Misfits), occult themes and imagery, and modern relevant topics like mental health issues and substance abuse. 9/10, highly recommend, especially their first 2 albums, the first of which has my all-time favorite version of “St. James Infirmary Blues”
Glad to spread the good news. I think I found them in a listicle about “the best non-metal satanic groups” along with Amigo the Devil, Twin Temple, and Dorthia Cottrell, among others.
I found a lot of good music from that list, and it wound up sending me down a three-year rabbit hole when it mentioned psych doom and stoner rock, which I had never really explored (and now stoner/doom is one of my favorite genres).
So, clearly I have pretty positive memories of that particular article; I’ll see if I can find it again, because if you like Bridge City Sinners, there’s a lot more to explore
Edit: found the link and it’s just as good as I remembered from when I first found it 3-4 years. I still listen to a lot of these bands
look i don’t know what your grudge is against my bank account, but i have $100 in strange vinyl disks being mailed to me now. please cease this witchcraft.
that article had me hooked in the first two sentenced too. and now the budos band is gonna cost me money.
Saw “Bridge City" and then read your description of them and thought, “I’m willing to bet they’re from Portland.” Checked out their web page and yup, of course they are! Dammit, I love Portland!
I have reservations about Rockabilly. Not necessarily any particular rockabilly group, but several of the people who I have met who present as Rockabilly styled were… let’s just say less than punk, progressive, forward thinking. At least one was on the verge of tradwife shit, honestly.
That’s fair. Psychobilly tends to have more punk/progressive tendencies, but like most music scenes, there’s a wide variety of people who self-identify into that group, not all of whom share the same values/politics. With Rockabilly in particular, you get considerable overlap between the nostalgia for the fashion and music of early rock’n’roll and the nostalgia for the politics and society of the same era.
Libby Lux, lead singer of the Bridge City Sinners, fits the bill pretty well, but as you say, no mohawk. I feel like once you get into the folk-punk/psychobilly scene, the default is more often rockabilly greaser/pinup than punk but there’s exceptions to everything.
Edit: Also, their particular flavor of satanic folk-punk is particularly good, if you’re into that sort of thing. I think they do a pretty good job of writing catchy songs with a mashup of B-movie pulp (a la The Cramps or the Misfits), occult themes and imagery, and modern relevant topics like mental health issues and substance abuse. 9/10, highly recommend, especially their first 2 albums, the first of which has my all-time favorite version of “St. James Infirmary Blues”
didn’t know my life was missing this band until today, holy shit. thanks :)
Glad to spread the good news. I think I found them in a listicle about “the best non-metal satanic groups” along with Amigo the Devil, Twin Temple, and Dorthia Cottrell, among others.
I found a lot of good music from that list, and it wound up sending me down a three-year rabbit hole when it mentioned psych doom and stoner rock, which I had never really explored (and now stoner/doom is one of my favorite genres).
So, clearly I have pretty positive memories of that particular article; I’ll see if I can find it again, because if you like Bridge City Sinners, there’s a lot more to explore
Edit: found the link and it’s just as good as I remembered from when I first found it 3-4 years. I still listen to a lot of these bands
look i don’t know what your grudge is against my bank account, but i have $100 in strange vinyl disks being mailed to me now. please cease this witchcraft.
that article had me hooked in the first two sentenced too. and now the budos band is gonna cost me money.
ahh, jeez. If I’d known you were into vinyl, I’d have thought twice about these recommendations ;)
Saw “Bridge City" and then read your description of them and thought, “I’m willing to bet they’re from Portland.” Checked out their web page and yup, of course they are! Dammit, I love Portland!
I have reservations about Rockabilly. Not necessarily any particular rockabilly group, but several of the people who I have met who present as Rockabilly styled were… let’s just say less than punk, progressive, forward thinking. At least one was on the verge of tradwife shit, honestly.
But thats typical to Applacian culture, right? If you dont wanna be classist, see how people compliment their background,
(some people have come a long way and still have further to go)
That’s fair. Psychobilly tends to have more punk/progressive tendencies, but like most music scenes, there’s a wide variety of people who self-identify into that group, not all of whom share the same values/politics. With Rockabilly in particular, you get considerable overlap between the nostalgia for the fashion and music of early rock’n’roll and the nostalgia for the politics and society of the same era.
Libby was my first thought as well.