This week Christopher Long brings home a doozie. FULL DISCLOSURE: he didn’t discover it at a garage sale, and it sure wasn’t cheap. However, the near-mint copy of Beauty’s Only Skin Deep, the debut 1978 solo LP from Cherie Currie, is his most sought-after score of 2023!

Sound City (Burger Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Don’t Tread on We! (Mass Appeal). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

He’s A Jerk / Because I Love You (Hidden Volume Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Adam Ant storms Orlando and proves that the ’80s are still alive. Jen Cray had to check it out for herself.

Need To Feel Your Love (Wilsuns RC). Review by Jen Cray.

Welcome The Worms (Dead Oceans). Review by Jen Cray.

Rock and roll trailblazer, Lita Ford, reveals her life story - warts and all, in a salacious debut memoir.

Unvarnished (Blackheart Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

This is the End of Control (Hollywood). Review by Laura Pontillo.

Get What You Came For (Vigilante Music/Adamant Records). Review by Jen Cray.

Skin, spit, and sweat were on board for a recent These Arms Are Snakes show that Jen Cray soaked up in Orlando.

WMMO 98.9, Orlando’s soft rock radio station, puts on free concerts a few times a year as a “thanks for listening” for its listeners. To close out 2007, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts took over the grassy knoll in front of city hall much to the excitement of Jen Cray.

Doublecross (Dirtnap). Review by Jen Cray.

Get The Gore (Bloodshot). Review by Jen Cray.

Tantrum (Blackheart). Review by Jen Cray.

Back from the Brink (Spinerazor). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Saw The Light (Elicit/Majestic). Review by Jen Cray.

The Gore Gore Girls take the two best musical styles of Detroit, Motown and Garage Rock, and combine them with sexy, sultry attitude. Jen Cray reports from the white vinyl lounge.

…but James Mann offers a review of two books on the subject that should be: Steven Blush’s American Hardcore: A Tribal History and Mark Spitz and Brendan Mullen’s We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk.