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  • all the covers LPIn 2022, Los Angeles label Rum Bar Records released "All The Covers ( And More)", a sprawling, star-studded, two-CD compilation of every cover recorded by The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs over the course of their 25+ year career.

    Three of Europe's best rock ‘n’ roll labels Heavy Medication, Ghost Highway and Take The City,are combining to give the collection the vinyl treatment.

    This single disc, limited edition picks 17 tracks and packages them under the title "Best of All the Covers (and More)", featuring guest appearances by Sylvain Sylvain, Wayne Kramer, Cherie Currie, Jeff Dahl, Jimmy Zero, Bryan Small of The Hangmen, and others.  Starpower!

    It also adds a previously unreleased cover of a GG Allin song, "Occupation", which was recorded after the original CD release.

    Each label is offering a different color variant of outer sleeve artwork (pink, green or blue), with Heavy Med's edition a pink cover and pink vinyl. Street date is May 9. More info and a preview is here.

     

  • sylvain bookThere are two undeniable take-outs from "There's No Bones In Ice Cream." One is Sylvain Sylvain's deep and abiding love of the New York Dolls and pride in their legacy. The other is a feeling that things could have turned out much differently had they been given five minutes during their time on the roller coaster to catch their breath.

    If you're reading this review at the I-94 Bar you don't need to be told who the New York Dolls were or how important they are. Glam rock probably still would have happened without them, but punk's birth would have been very different.

    The Dolls are influential because they proved that you didn't have to be good to be great. Their lack of virtuosity was as influential as their style.

    Mainstream America didn't want to know about the Dolls. The image was just too fag-ishly confrontational. Their first lifespan was only two albums. Others who trod the same path - who moderated the look and sound and stuck at it like Alice Cooper and KISS - cashed in, big-time.