HARDWARES

For all the rock revival that’s happened over the last five years or so, there’s still one key rock ‘n’ roll element that’s been ignored by its revivalists: the genre’s obsessive emphasis on balls-out energy. We once looked to the usual suspects to provide us with pure rock fury, but most of those guys have either watered down their sound or gotten out of the game altogether. What’s a rock fan to do? Well, for starters, check out The Space Cowboys’ Dead End Streets & Devil’s Night as soon as possible. Embodying the riff-first philosophy and stop-on-a-dime soloing that made those old Hellacopters album so amazing, Gothenburg’s The Space Cowboys do nothing but rock and rock hard. There’s no pussyfooting around on Dead End Streets & Devil’s Night - it’s all about being ultra-loud, fast and raw, with linear, blinders-on devotion to rocking as ferociously as damn possible. This is awesome.