Context: Vinyl LP testing SW Rick James

Rick James

Featuring the classic singles ‘The Drowners’

The incendiary Detroit quintet MC5 (the MC stood for ‘Motor City’) burned briefly but brightly at rock’s cutting edge in the late 1960s and early 1970s

The band had a distinctly more artistic and experimental style than many other bands associated with the then popular baggy/Madchester style

Context: Vinyl LP testing SW Rick James" Eye Flys brings together the minds of four musicians known for their work in some of the most extreme, blistering bands today. The quartet was initially started by Full Of Hell guitarist Spencer Hazard and former Backslider drummer Patrick Forrest as an outlet to play aggressive music with equal intensity that would contrast the breakneck speeds of their other projects. After asking Backslider bassist Jake Smith to join on guitar and vocals and