Players Club - Regenesis CD

Tracklisting: The Drag Hero Snake Bought Face Plant Magic Skin Nail Bats Clean The Wrong Small Bugs Music For a Dying Man Release Date: 2004 Label: Dead Teenager Origin: USA There's been a lot of press and proselytizing and gladhanding and ass-kissing over the past year or two about The Big Apple's supposedly sudden reemergence as the hot spot for hot rock. The big problem with all this hype a.k.a. BS is that few of the new wave of New York bands actually "ROCK" worth a pinch of blow. Enter Brooklyn's Players Club(formerly the "J.J. Paradise Players Club). These are some grown ass men playing some hard ass rock. The band's powerful mix of Zeppelin-AC/DC anthem-itude and Jesus Lizard-Neurosis brute force occupies a singular place wherein melody never comes at the price of heaviness, heaviness never comes at the price of intelligence, and intelligence never compromises the near-physical impact of their music. They are a true rock band-as-street-gang in the sense of four brothers who l