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...HEPCAT Right on Time (Hellcat) This nine-member band, based in Los Angeles, plays old-school ska with sweet vocals and warm, gentle horns. The songs, many of them genial ballads and jazzy instrumentals, breeze by, carefree but never insubstantial. This is an album that makes you dream of the Caribbean, or of dancing under starlight, or perhaps both...
From the first seconds of Willis, the Pietasters premiere effort on Hellcat Records (they previously recorded on Moon Records), the band evidently attempts to follow the path to the main-stream created by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. The Bosstones, however, made the leap while still maintaining a high standard of instrumentation, song writing and vocals. On Willis, Steve Jackson, the singer for the Pietasters, all too often comes off as a poor man's Dicky Barrett. While Barrett of the Bosstones can pull off a scratchy, cigarette-tarnished voice, Jackson instills a pain rarely felt. Not since Biz Markie crooning...
...contrast, Redlight, the first effort on Hellcat for the Slackers as well, offers up the ska beat at its finest. The Slackers combine Latin rhythms, big band and Jamaican reggae to create their own unique sound...
...company, based on Long Island, New York. Whichever bidder prevails, a merger would preserve Grumman's expertise in developing electronics to update aging aircraft. It should also preserve defense jobs at the venerable fighter-plane manufacturer, whose tradition dates back to the days of the World War II F6F Hellcat...
...orphan; his parents, the notorious Alphabet Bomber (Airport, Barber shop, Car wash, Drug store . . .) and spouse, were electrocuted together long before he turned teen. He's Wade Walker, and when the world that has branded him a juvenile delinquent weighs too heavily on his high school hellcat soul, his eye moistens with a single salty tear. So the kids call him Cry-Baby. Says Wade defiantly: "That's Mr. Baby...