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<h2>CHEATER SLICKS Turn 40: Mudhoney, Oblivians, Kid Congo and Chrome Cranks Join a Two-Night Columbus Blowout</h2><figure id="figure-lfj8s1t79kmv377avs"><img id="lfj8s1t79kmv377avs" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/321VLsIj0dnVjew6BHHPcKMfORarpAGoUGkBuGuDZKn5lyGIFXaFofG4KZ9CVcpp.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: 50% 0%;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="50%" data-positiony="0%" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/321VLsIj0dnVjew6BHHPcKMfORarpAGoUGkBuGuDZKn5lyGIFXaFofG4KZ9CVcpp.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: 50% 0%;"></figure>Forty years of feedback, and <a data-mce-href="https://intheredrecords.com/collections/cheater-slicks" href="https://intheredrecords.com/collections/cheater-slicks">Cheater Slicks</a> are throwing themselves a party loud enough to match.CS•40, the band’s 40th anniversary celebration, takes over Valley Dale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio on Friday, June 4 and Saturday, June 5. <figure id="figure-7rgnbbtevmv37a1rp"><img id="7rgnbbtevmv37a1rp" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/39Xi4iI8o91BvsoNBxMFN6EcDpmHXeFn0eJCuQgbfnF6Rgu5Iv4wAknuucOuHUOw.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/39Xi4iI8o91BvsoNBxMFN6EcDpmHXeFn0eJCuQgbfnF6Rgu5Iv4wAknuucOuHUOw.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: center center;"></figure>Friday: Oblivians, Kid Congo &amp; the Pink Monkey Birds, Red Aunts, Lavender Flu, and Cheater Slicks. Saturday: Mudhoney, Chrome Cranks, the Cheater Slicks Big Band, Des Demonas, and Cheap Fix.<figure id="figure-i8ou9ijiawqmv385e6i"><iframe id="i8ou9ijiawqmv385e6i" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P7sNKXq9bcw" class="w-full bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" data-url="https://youtu.be/P7sNKXq9bcw?si=EQq6oLwSGkbaELac" data-corners="default" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P7sNKXq9bcw" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;"></iframe></figure>The room is part of the story. The band calls Valley Dale “one of the last big band ballrooms left in the U.S.” and says the Velvet Underground played there in 1966 on the Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour. A live recording of that show exists, and it will play in the ballroom Friday night as an invocation before the first band takes the stage.<figure id="figure-34xi32ittmv383bbp"><iframe id="34xi32ittmv383bbp" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LKFnPv9E3Ww" class="w-full bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" data-url="https://youtu.be/LKFnPv9E3Ww?si=y4mDsywrFo1NIZec" data-corners="default" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LKFnPv9E3Ww" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;"></iframe></figure> The Slicks formed in Boston in 1987,&nbsp; by brothers Tom and Dave Shannon on guitar with drummer Dana Hatch, and moved to Columbus in 1996. Along the way they toured with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and made Don’t Like You, produced by Spencer and reissued by In The Red in 2025. The band planned the weekend with Gene Mullett starting in late winter.<figure id="figure-fl3ev1ispvmv387fhs"><iframe id="fl3ev1ispvmv387fhs" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MdPx0IwU1E4" class="w-full bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" data-url="https://youtu.be/MdPx0IwU1E4?si=v0P9Mw79SD6H21Zy" data-corners="default" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MdPx0IwU1E4" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;"></iframe></figure>Ticket prices and availability are still to come, most likely through Eventbrite, and the band says a website with details and an FAQ is on the way.

CHEATER SLICKS Turn 40: Mudhoney, Oblivians, Kid Congo and Chrome Cranks Join a Two-Night Columbus Blowout

<h2>LABELS Collide Prog-Psych Jams with Hardcore Freak-Out on "Tech Death"</h2><figure id="figure-3rwqk3oh9imv1lkrqb" data-full-width=""><iframe id="3rwqk3oh9imv1lkrqb" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Adk0nqB54gA" class="w-full bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" data-url="https://youtu.be/Adk0nqB54gA?si=yyomxZCfylYmiHEO" data-corners="default" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Adk0nqB54gA" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;"></iframe></figure>On October 9, Fort Worth's <a data-mce-href="https://linktr.ee/labelsbandofficial?fbclid=IwY2xjawUBerBwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4BNFVQf4_LLKUUbzBG6TZQbqxILv1lygCUlFMfMXZ4EXEuMqILaFTK7Uod3w_aem_aRAF34iZEdh00UeHzUiVPA" href="https://linktr.ee/labelsbandofficial?fbclid=IwY2xjawUBerBwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4BNFVQf4_LLKUUbzBG6TZQbqxILv1lygCUlFMfMXZ4EXEuMqILaFTK7Uod3w_aem_aRAF34iZEdh00UeHzUiVPA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LABELS </a>release "Tech Death," the second single from their upcoming EP Live To Revive — and it's <a data-mce-href="https://soundcloud.com/reprobatepromo/tech-death-2?si=00451df0436648b6ae4da4e39d448932&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing" href="https://soundcloud.com/reprobatepromo/tech-death-2?si=00451df0436648b6ae4da4e39d448932&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a proper banger.&nbsp;</a><figure id="figure-qu17jcfggremv1lngfe" data-full-width=""><img id="qu17jcfggremv1lngfe" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2akobwD4jpEYQae9FBcwyc7lD6Ekqq6gEDxfNKagii2AbRgiGcp95DIdYS9UvoPm.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2akobwD4jpEYQae9FBcwyc7lD6Ekqq6gEDxfNKagii2AbRgiGcp95DIdYS9UvoPm.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: center center;"></figure>The song is a head-on collision of two worlds: the sprawling, kaleidoscopic prog-psych jamming of Oh Sees and King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard, pushed through a robotic tone and techy riffs, then driven straight through the band's own freak-out hardcore instincts. It's the sound of a band that clearly isn't interested in picking a lane.&nbsp;The idea behind the song is just as of-the-moment. Technology is attached to everything now, and the band says it's frying our brains. In their words:"Everything is associated with technology today, and it makes our brain feel fried. Playing the music we do can hopefully bring people together and live in the moment."<figure id="figure-7ib8agmg2lmv1ltrir" data-full-width=""><img id="7ib8agmg2lmv1ltrir" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/24Dtd2S4faduMHtVPHnzbqukejAuWYmpunDLW4tjOVydxf4ACaqO1x70xH6dOizL.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/24Dtd2S4faduMHtVPHnzbqukejAuWYmpunDLW4tjOVydxf4ACaqO1x70xH6dOizL.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;"></figure>It follows a strong opening to the EP campaign.<a data-mce-href="https://joyzine.org/2026/09/11/single-video-premiere-labels-void/" href="https://joyzine.org/2026/09/11/single-video-premiere-labels-void/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Joyzine premiered the first</a> single <a data-mce-href="https://reprobatemedia.com/blog/-labels--new-video--void--is-out-now" href="https://reprobatemedia.com/blog/-labels--new-video--void--is-out-now" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Void"</a>&nbsp; and called the track a "3-act psych-rock opera," while Spanish-language outlet Rock and Roll Army gave "Void" a world-exclusive premiere as its song of the day. And on October 7 — two days before "Tech Death" arrives — the band just opened for Jack White at The Bomb Factory in Dallas. The full EP, Live To Revive, lands October 29 via Spaceflight Records.

Texas Quartet LABELS Collide Prog-Psych Jams with Hardcore Freak-Out on "Tech Death"

<figure id="figure-dk85dqhi37muhvwv91" data-full-width="" class=""><iframe id="dk85dqhi37muhvwv91" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NuKRutswkeY" class="w-full bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" data-url="https://youtu.be/NuKRutswkeY?si=BWOM0MnmtFzIJlFc" data-corners="default" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NuKRutswkeY" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;"></iframe></figure><a data-mce-href="https://cvltnation.com/enter-the-supernal-sonic-world-of-kacie-marie-rapture-in-blue/" href="https://cvltnation.com/enter-the-supernal-sonic-world-of-kacie-marie-rapture-in-blue/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Score Premiere</a><h2><a data-mce-href="https://jaguarsevensevenseven.bandcamp.com/album/danger-at-my-heels" href="https://jaguarsevensevenseven.bandcamp.com/album/danger-at-my-heels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jaguar 777</a> Goes Cinematic — Score <a data-mce-href="https://kaciemarie.com/" href="https://kaciemarie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kacie Marie's</a> "Rapture In Blue"</h2><figure id="figure-ssytxlwsrmuhwxyxl" data-full-width=""><img id="ssytxlwsrmuhwxyxl" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2ayFOhOq6k6D1vVcX7EoVRm9GzTebKDmfz76KZGLPmaLCHGL3mjbPjw3mdxoYyn2.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: 25% 15%;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionx="25%" data-positiony="15%" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2ayFOhOq6k6D1vVcX7EoVRm9GzTebKDmfz76KZGLPmaLCHGL3mjbPjw3mdxoYyn2.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: 25% 15%;"></figure>There's a moment in <a data-mce-href="https://youtu.be/NuKRutswkeY?si=BWOM0MnmtFzIJlFc" href="https://youtu.be/NuKRutswkeY?si=BWOM0MnmtFzIJlFc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rapture In Blue </a>where the line between dream and static blurs completely — and that's exactly where <a data-mce-href="https://kaciemarie.com/" href="https://kaciemarie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kacie Marie </a>wants you.The 22-minute short film, starring Kacie Marie and Emmett O'Connor with an original score from Jaguar 777, unfolds less like a story and more like a fever you can't quite wake from.<a data-mce-href="https://cvltnation.com/enter-the-supernal-sonic-world-of-kacie-marie-rapture-in-blue/" href="https://cvltnation.com/enter-the-supernal-sonic-world-of-kacie-marie-rapture-in-blue/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> CVLT Nation called it "watching TV in 1986 and waking at 3 AM to find it still playing" </a>— and that's exactly the feeling Jaguar 777's music locks into: nostalgic, eerie, gorgeous in a way that aches. Public-access rawness meets old-school horror scoring, the kind that used to carry a film's dread before studios traded atmosphere for polish.<figure id="figure-reof9f0fvlmuhxi330" data-full-width=""><img id="reof9f0fvlmuhxi330" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/5WCrRTXkz79MSPbbGQcIi7ex7r6VaIx61aJox2ohEuT8OLSuy5B1mNhpmEa27Jfm.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/5WCrRTXkz79MSPbbGQcIi7ex7r6VaIx61aJox2ohEuT8OLSuy5B1mNhpmEa27Jfm.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: center center;"></figure>Kacie Marie isn't new to any side of the camera. A working model for years, she's built out a<a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5NZvGAgtcdnJdxMfywPXw" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5NZvGAgtcdnJdxMfywPXw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> </a><a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5NZvGAgtcdnJdxMfywPXw" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5NZvGAgtcdnJdxMfywPXw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">real, prolific body</a><a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5NZvGAgtcdnJdxMfywPXw" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5NZvGAgtcdnJdxMfywPXw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> </a>of directing and editing work of her own — shorts, music videos, a growing filmography that includes <a data-mce-href="https://youtu.be/cHYJ0G6IrXA?si=UBwf5a9tpXfphAIc" href="https://youtu.be/cHYJ0G6IrXA?si=UBwf5a9tpXfphAIc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Flying Cowboy.</a> <a data-mce-href="https://youtu.be/QBAv7yfqP0Q?si=08lia7qoGkwc4dWH" href="https://youtu.be/QBAv7yfqP0Q?si=08lia7qoGkwc4dWH" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danger at My Heels</a> and <a data-mce-href="https://youtu.be/FQ52Fatdv1U?si=aXR67-KW0jgWmxCg" href="https://youtu.be/FQ52Fatdv1U?si=aXR67-KW0jgWmxCg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Who's Sorry Now</a>. That fluency with image and performance runs through every frame of Rapture In Blue, turned inward into something stranger, and entirely hers.<figure id="figure-eehjhmfzlqmuhx9hwd" data-full-width=""><img id="eehjhmfzlqmuhx9hwd" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2ayFOhOq6k6D1vVcX7EoVRm9GzTebKDmfz76KZGLPmaLCHGL3mjbPjw3mdxoYyn2.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: 50% 100%;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionx="50%" data-positiony="100%" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2ayFOhOq6k6D1vVcX7EoVRm9GzTebKDmfz76KZGLPmaLCHGL3mjbPjw3mdxoYyn2.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: 50% 100%;"></figure>In her own words:"A dark and chaptered story reflecting those from within my mind, woven by a hue that has always inspired me. Art, music, movies, dreams, horror, weather; these are my brain's rinse and repeats."That hue — blue, cold, hypnotic — runs through every frame Jaguar 777's score touches. This isn't a soundtrack sitting behind the picture. It's woven into it.<figure id="figure-bzovz1almmuhxizew" data-full-width=""><img id="bzovz1almmuhxizew" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/33tsw27F8w8L1DIYN9LEUKVZrVOtxZDt3qyNFkBZUsFR2OR1W2N90cyVFWBEXbf3.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: undefined undefined;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/33tsw27F8w8L1DIYN9LEUKVZrVOtxZDt3qyNFkBZUsFR2OR1W2N90cyVFWBEXbf3.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: undefined undefined;"></figure> <a data-mce-href="https://vhshaven.com/products/rapture-in-blue-vhs?variant=50508551848176" href="https://vhshaven.com/products/rapture-in-blue-vhs?variant=50508551848176" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pre-Order "Rapture In Blue"&nbsp; </a>and<a data-mce-href="https://jaguarsevensevenseven.bandcamp.com/album/jaguar-777" href="https://jaguarsevensevenseven.bandcamp.com/album/jaguar-777"> the repress of Jaguar 777 LP on limited edition vinyl</a><a data-mce-href="https://reprobatemedia.com/blog/jaguar-777-goes-cinematic---score-kacie-marie-s--rapture-in-blue" href="https://reprobatemedia.com/blog/jaguar-777-goes-cinematic---score-kacie-marie-s--rapture-in-blue" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> </a>-&nbsp; stay tuned for more Jaguar 777 news soon!&nbsp; <figure id="figure-essmc35yplmuhxkd7x" data-full-width=""><img id="essmc35yplmuhxkd7x" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/34uxtWzpzMW2v0Zt0O78pB25Iadhg57BzZGPLeWmLiuNYq9td1RM0XmnbvmgSDdH.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/34uxtWzpzMW2v0Zt0O78pB25Iadhg57BzZGPLeWmLiuNYq9td1RM0XmnbvmgSDdH.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;"></figure>

JAGUAR 777 Goes Cinematic — Score KACIE MARIE'S "Rapture In Blue"

<figure id="figure-hpln7td3n4mu25hn57" data-full-width="" class="selected"><img id="hpln7td3n4mu25hn57" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/15QOFnPESMHu6stLbI8ZBfoy8LR2Uix3Ps4iwxaUNEHeeyu5753J2F35nZ0tSRum.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/15QOFnPESMHu6stLbI8ZBfoy8LR2Uix3Ps4iwxaUNEHeeyu5753J2F35nZ0tSRum.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: center center;"></figure><h2>SONIC REDUCER: THE WORLD JUST GOT A LITTLE LESS DANGEROUS</h2><h3>Cheetah Chrome, Architect of American Punk, Dead at 71<img id="kaqopm0ahmu1zm4v2" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/11o4WDD4tw2uP36r2ZGLBAVgc5hKTYc0nOmGjHSGh8RwdxYGlyBbu3CVqxvToPzn.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: 40% 60%;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="40%" data-positiony="60%" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/11o4WDD4tw2uP36r2ZGLBAVgc5hKTYc0nOmGjHSGh8RwdxYGlyBbu3CVqxvToPzn.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: 40% 60%;"></h3>Eugene Richard O'Connor — Cheetah Chrome to everyone who ever plugged into a Marshall and meant it — died Sunday September 13th in Nashville. He was 71.<figure id="figure-3tsk3klmjjmu20m22w" data-full-width="" class=""><iframe id="3tsk3klmjjmu20m22w" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hh0HKfnAl5o" class="w-full bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" data-url="https://youtu.be/Hh0HKfnAl5o?si=GOcgtsita7PnfwLc" data-corners="default" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hh0HKfnAl5o" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;"></iframe></figure><figure id="figure-xvbvcfeesmu2003ty"><img id="xvbvcfeesmu2003ty" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2d8FkKBp4hFKcb5qQEe3m78MxubhzFIEeAPpnZZQVDcby9kIZUifddWtH9rVNWMH.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2d8FkKBp4hFKcb5qQEe3m78MxubhzFIEeAPpnZZQVDcby9kIZUifddWtH9rVNWMH.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;"></figure>Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Chrome was standing at absolute ground zero of American punk. Rocket from the Tombs in 1974 — the proto-punk wrecking crew that also spawned Pere Ubu. Then the Dead Boys, CBGB, Young Loud and Snotty, and songs like Sonic Reducer and Ain't It Fun that still sound like a fist through a window fifty years on.<figure id="figure-il4t7or3hmmu202zfb"><img id="il4t7or3hmmu202zfb" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2aKDl2kP1NtTI1aD1dnuIi6nHQXMbleSQXGZppuAQ3C3H0l6MLA906myrD2UX0mI.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: 30% 10%;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="30%" data-positiony="10%" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2aKDl2kP1NtTI1aD1dnuIi6nHQXMbleSQXGZppuAQ3C3H0l6MLA906myrD2UX0mI.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: 30% 10%;"></figure>At a time when punk was getting mannered and art-schooled on both sides of the Atlantic, Cheetah Chrome was the genuine article — a guitarist who played like his amp was on fire and couldn't have cared less who was watching. Raw, mean, funny and completely committed. The Dead Boys weren't performing danger. They were it.<figure id="figure-lqk6fbuovmu20t9ct" data-full-width=""><iframe id="lqk6fbuovmu20t9ct" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HpYwXRsA2nI" class="w-full bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" data-url="https://youtu.be/HpYwXRsA2nI?si=WO0u2UJdvixQp4hX" data-corners="default" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HpYwXRsA2nI" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;"></iframe></figure>He never stopped. Solo records, a creative director role at Nashville's Plowboy Records, and his 2010 memoir A Dead Boy's Tale From The Front Lines Of Punk Rock — a book that reads exactly like he played. Loud, honest, no filler.<figure id="figure-88o6dh7mvsmu221r9j"><img id="88o6dh7mvsmu221r9j" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/7dLwxD9PSiqs9Gvnc8kQDUHO6fsqN7uYSuu1uo56d18A8ODFjZAzQSNyPPnVgqc2.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: 40% 20%;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="40%" data-positiony="20%" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/7dLwxD9PSiqs9Gvnc8kQDUHO6fsqN7uYSuu1uo56d18A8ODFjZAzQSNyPPnVgqc2.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: 40% 20%;"></figure>He is survived by his wife Anna and son Rogan.Godspeed Cheetah. Say hello to Stiv. <figure id="figure-s4wiat4cammu224rsg"><img id="s4wiat4cammu224rsg" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/1aCuw1JBJbxyFciQea5fUruKRvRXXdHbA5wNvrH2ANzqpCiwRHWugSmLAABQkt1z.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: 50% 10%;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="50%" data-positiony="10%" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/1aCuw1JBJbxyFciQea5fUruKRvRXXdHbA5wNvrH2ANzqpCiwRHWugSmLAABQkt1z.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: 50% 10%;"></figure><figure id="figure-8vhe4z4kqmu25xxyr"data-full-width><img id="8vhe4z4kqmu25xxyr" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/9Uxwp2Erb2QAHnzjJMcwUVYFumJJpMmFUfjBoXnM2eptWtAkoF3NclBxqm9Pftph.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 3/2; object-position: 65% 35%;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="3:2" data-caption="" data-positionX="65%" data-positionY="35%" data-fullWidth="true"/></figure>

CHEETAH CHROME Architect of American Punk, Dead at 71

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <figure id="figure-3j80q99jwmtx194o6"><iframe id="3j80q99jwmtx194o6" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vFejed-Bul8" class="w-full bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" data-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFejed-Bul8" data-corners="default" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vFejed-Bul8" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;"></iframe></figure><h2>**Updated** LABELS Announce New EP Live To Revive — new <a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFejed-Bul8" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFejed-Bul8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VIDEO</a> 'Void' is out Now! </h2><figure id="figure-gsmvnf3m5qmtiu6jq2" data-full-width=""><img id="gsmvnf3m5qmtiu6jq2" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/158eqqhNKEzAoUCIHixvEnCplYDmzkbKBituKNXwGnUnNluI3uPXdfs7EawMSoc9.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/158eqqhNKEzAoUCIHixvEnCplYDmzkbKBituKNXwGnUnNluI3uPXdfs7EawMSoc9.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: center center;"></figure>Fort Worth, TX — Fort Worth garage-punk four-piece<a data-mce-href="https://linktr.ee/labelsbandofficial?fbclid=IwY2xjawUBerBwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4BNFVQf4_LLKUUbzBG6TZQbqxILv1lygCUlFMfMXZ4EXEuMqILaFTK7Uod3w_aem_aRAF34iZEdh00UeHzUiVPA" href="https://linktr.ee/labelsbandofficial?fbclid=IwY2xjawUBerBwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4BNFVQf4_LLKUUbzBG6TZQbqxILv1lygCUlFMfMXZ4EXEuMqILaFTK7Uod3w_aem_aRAF34iZEdh00UeHzUiVPA" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> </a><a data-mce-href="https://linktr.ee/labelsbandofficial?fbclid=IwY2xjawUBerBwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4BNFVQf4_LLKUUbzBG6TZQbqxILv1lygCUlFMfMXZ4EXEuMqILaFTK7Uod3w_aem_aRAF34iZEdh00UeHzUiVPA" href="https://linktr.ee/labelsbandofficial?fbclid=IwY2xjawUBerBwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4BNFVQf4_LLKUUbzBG6TZQbqxILv1lygCUlFMfMXZ4EXEuMqILaFTK7Uod3w_aem_aRAF34iZEdh00UeHzUiVPA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LABELS</a> are coming back swinging with a new EP, Live To Revive, dropping via <a data-mce-href="https://spaceflightrecords.com/" href="https://spaceflightrecords.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spaceflight Records</a> this fall — and it starts drawing blood TODAY with lead single video&nbsp; <a data-mce-href="https://youtu.be/vFejed-Bul8?si=JbrwRf3--3nMsNjx" href="https://youtu.be/vFejed-Bul8?si=JbrwRf3--3nMsNjx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Void."</a> UK outlet Joyzine <a data-mce-href="https://joyzine.org/2026/09/11/single-video-premiere-labels-void/" href="https://joyzine.org/2026/09/11/single-video-premiere-labels-void/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called it a "3-act psych-rock opera" that opens like "Motörhead on a rocket-sled" before exploding into a full-tilt finish.</a> <figure id="figure-ljd4n2osomtiua8ny"><img id="ljd4n2osomtiua8ny" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/4QTXKcpqfa30Im7f6pJZRinebyF5eKiKySPpavLeX5fBucYTp2u85kv8LvG47mA9.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: undefined undefined;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="1:1" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/4QTXKcpqfa30Im7f6pJZRinebyF5eKiKySPpavLeX5fBucYTp2u85kv8LvG47mA9.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 1/1; object-position: undefined undefined;"></figure><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4e0rdJTuAm3zHagdm0G0dH" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-mce-href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4e0rdJTuAm3zHagdm0G0dH">Call it post-psych-garage-core, if you're into new subgenres nobody asked for — it's the closest thing to a label for what LABELS actually sound like.</a> Picture Ty Segall and Black Flag colliding in some kind of musical time-travel wreck, both eras crashing back into the present and taking the windshield out with them. "Void" is the first gut-punch of several leading into the full EP this fall — and it hits like it means it. &nbsp;On October 9, LABELS release "Tech Death," the second single from their upcoming EP Live To Revive — and it's a proper banger.The song is a head-on collision of two worlds: the sprawling, kaleidoscopic prog-psych jamming of Oh Sees and King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard, pushed through a robotic tone and techy riffs, then driven straight through the band's own freak-out hardcore instincts. It's the sound of a band that clearly isn't interested in picking a lane. &nbsp;The idea behind the song is just as of-the-moment. Technology is attached to everything now, and the band says it's frying our brains. In their words:"We noticed how everything is associated with technology today, and it makes our brain feel fried. Playing the music we do can hopefully bring people together and live in the moment."&nbsp;On October 7 — two days before "Tech Death" arrives — the band opens for<a data-mce-href="https://www.axs.com/events/1341011/jack-white-live-2026-tickets" href="https://www.axs.com/events/1341011/jack-white-live-2026-tickets" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Jack White at The Bomb Factory in Dallas.</a><figure id="figure-h5vnz5yylmtiub0mn" data-full-width=""><img id="h5vnz5yylmtiub0mn" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2akobwD4jpEYQae9FBcwyc7lD6Ekqq6gEDxfNKagii2AbRgiGcp95DIdYS9UvoPm.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 3/2; object-position: undefined undefined;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="3:2" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/2akobwD4jpEYQae9FBcwyc7lD6Ekqq6gEDxfNKagii2AbRgiGcp95DIdYS9UvoPm.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 3/2; object-position: undefined undefined;"></figure>If you haven't caught up with LABELS yet, catch up now or get left behind. Their 2025 album White Hot tore through the DFW scene and didn't bother apologizing, with Fort Worth Weekly calling it the sound of a band "letting the band go bigger, be louder, play faster," their live intensity "dialed into explosive territory." ImAFanOf went further, naming it "without question — LABELS' best release so far," while AHippiesLullaby called it "undeniably punk and undeniably burning up the DFW music scene... an experience you will not regret."<figure id="figure-fevl3p8znmtiuk56r"><iframe id="fevl3p8znmtiuk56r" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AsSKCAhpMOk" class="w-full bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" data-url="https://youtu.be/AsSKCAhpMOk?si=TJAGsRkpfhX9rjTd" data-corners="default" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AsSKCAhpMOk" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9;"></iframe></figure>Live To Revive doesn't ease off that momentum — it puts a boot on it. Four albums deep since 2021, LABELS have spent every release getting louder, faster, and meaner, a career trajectory best described as allergic to restraint. This one doesn't knock. It kicks the door down.Full assets, streaming links, and interview availability on request. Consider yourself warned. <figure id="figure-ahg65uskgkmtiuoznk" data-full-width=""><img id="ahg65uskgkmtiuoznk" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/210RBMn7EpuggyFw6U5MTaZTMZoNfiPV3dXAEFeEgcRteG42LBONgCgyJ5zGjwSv.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-sm md:rounded-md lg:rounded-lg" style="aspect-ratio: 3/2; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="3:2" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/210RBMn7EpuggyFw6U5MTaZTMZoNfiPV3dXAEFeEgcRteG42LBONgCgyJ5zGjwSv.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 3/2; object-position: center center;"></figure> LABELS is:Tyler Waller — Lead Vocals Braden Burgan — Guitar, Vocals Xane Spencer — Bass, Vocals Taylor Burgan — Drums Discography:Venice (2021) — not currently on streaming Brain Fragments (2022) — not currently on streaming <a data-mce-href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5qBIW16oFHiiUcGEPSv3rc" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5qBIW16oFHiiUcGEPSv3rc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moral Laws (2024)</a> <a data-mce-href="https://elasticstage.com/labelsbandofficial/releases/white-hot-album" href="https://elasticstage.com/labelsbandofficial/releases/white-hot-album" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Hot (2025)</a> <figure id="figure-0j8z62ibrsmtiv2h36" data-full-width=""><img id="0j8z62ibrsmtiv2h36" src="https://cdn.durable.co/covers/c01ohslDZPAnyjx6rUYbnecvJ1SA54ccloOGUYXnSVJQClM0F1GbKrvbkWy8k0lY.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 rounded-lg md:rounded-xl lg:rounded-2xl" style="aspect-ratio: 3/2; object-position: 15% 30%;" data-corners="medium" data-aspect="3:2" data-caption="" data-positionx="15%" data-positiony="30%" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/covers/c01ohslDZPAnyjx6rUYbnecvJ1SA54ccloOGUYXnSVJQClM0F1GbKrvbkWy8k0lY.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 3/2; object-position: 15% 30%;"></figure> Press: "...<a data-mce-href="https://www.fwweekly.com/2025/05/14/white-hot" href="https://www.fwweekly.com/2025/05/14/white-hot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letting the band go bigger, be louder, play faster... 'White Hot' has dialed their live-band intensity into explosive territory." — Fort Worth Weekly</a>"...<a data-mce-href="https://imafanof.substack.com/p/the-white-hot-album-reminds-me-that" href="https://imafanof.substack.com/p/the-white-hot-album-reminds-me-that" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the quality of the songwriting, performance, and production makes this—without question—LABELS' best release so far." — ImAFanOf</a><a data-mce-href="https://www.ahippieslullaby.com/blog/white-hot-the-release-of-labels-new-album" href="https://www.ahippieslullaby.com/blog/white-hot-the-release-of-labels-new-album" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Undeniably punk and undeniably burning up the DFW music scene... an experience you will not regret." — AHippiesLullaby</a>"<a data-mce-href="https://joyzine.org/2026/09/11/single-video-premiere-labels-void/" href="https://joyzine.org/2026/09/11/single-video-premiere-labels-void/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Some bands require a seat belt and protective clothing when you’re listening and based on LABELS new single ‘Void’ they are such a band." - Joyzine UK&nbsp;&nbsp;</a><a data-mce-href="https://www.rockandrollarmy.com/magazine/2026/09/11/estrenamos-en-exclusiva-void-single-de-la-banda-de-garage-punk-labels/" href="https://www.rockandrollarmy.com/magazine/2026/09/11/estrenamos-en-exclusiva-void-single-de-la-banda-de-garage-punk-labels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&nbsp;"...genuinely gave us chills.&nbsp; - Rock 'n Roll Army</a> For interviews, early streams, high-res photos, or any other info, contact news@reprobatemedia.com

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