The Crack City Rockers, LIVE! (Live Friday 061)

Here’s The Crack City Rockers, straight from the horses mouth:

“Crack City Rockers bleed in regimented bursts of compulsion and articulation. At times, we’re the 13th Floor Elevators fronted by Allen Ginsberg. We smell like modernist punks and look like hip 40somethings attempting to hold the 21st century at bay. Speed argues with poetics and the present seduces the future. We’re immediate, literate, and refuse to admit that rock and roll is something stupid – though we know in our hearts it probably is. So what? Name a preferable alternative and you can have it. We’ll still be making records long after your band has split and you’re an investments analyst, web consultant, or HVAC repairman. The first record, Joyce Hotel, Paisely Pop, 2001, is an artefact: all NYC 77 rush and Dylan/Reed spewage. The second, an EP, New Myths, Paisley Pop, 2004, refines everything. Songs take on more hooks and spikes, words are edited to maximum minimalism. Rock Critics: see “literate punk” ie. Richard Hell and the Voidoids, the Only Ones, the Serpent Power.”

Tune in, if you dare.