The reanimated Teenage Love 13 returns with their second release since their 2004 reformation, Street Zombie.  The five song e.p. features retooled versions of two 1985 classics (“Poisoned” and the title track), two new tracks (“Someday” and “Cheers Motherfuckers”) and a cover of “Calling Me Names,” a song that was originally performed by Knoxville punk groundbreakers 5Twins, circa 1980.  Punctuated between the songs by a couple of crowd-baiting onstage rants and an interview conducted by the late Dennis “Doc Shock” Shockley with a scarily less-than-sober Rus Harper, Street Zombie finds its inspiration from the band’s usual milieu of sleazy bars, drug dens, and SRO hotels on the dirty side of town.  The sound is the same as ever, albeit tighter and better recorded.  As ever, the band’s proto-punk style is still deeply rooted in the sounds of the Stooges, New York Dolls, Dead Boys, and T-Rex, with an occasional hint of 70s butt rock riffage ala KISS and Grand Funk Railroad.  There’s no fool like an old fool.

 

Street Zombie sounds like the group is still inciting riots at sleazy bars.  There’s no maturity here.  While members are firmly in the middle-aged demographic, the music still sounds like it’s fueled with testosterone, alcohol, and poverty—three of the elements found in the best rock’n’roll.”

                                                            --Wayne Bledsoe, Knoxville News Sentinel

 “No doubt, some people—younger music fans who look at punk as a young person’s game—might wince at the thought of the 50-year-old Rus Harper channeling his 24 year old self.  The man himself, however, has no such compunctions.  All he has to do is sing, and that anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian attitude comes boiling up.”

                                                            --Steve Wildsmith, Maryville Daily Times

 “Teenage Love 13 plays full-fisted rock’n’roll with lots of snide attitude, bringing to mind bands like the New York Dolls, The Cramps, and Jeff Dahl.  This unrepentant band of rockers will appeal to you shit-kickers and alcohol soaked ne’er-do-wells.”

                                                            --Bruce Roehrs, Maximum Rock’N’Roll

 

 

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