Check out the inimitable Jack Rabid's review of our upcoming live album in the latest issue of The Big Takeover magazine.
PALE MOON GANG / LIVE AT CBGB
Pale Moon Gang fit well at the soulful shoebox dive at Bowery and Bleeker. Their sound had/has the grit and grime of the elders that made CBGB's reputation, a guitar-based racket that would drink whiskey at the club's long bar with Cheetah Chrome and Jimmy Zero, Walter Lure, Robert Quine, Lenny Kaye, and Sylvain Sylvain. Plus they've covered 1979 Iggy Pop, and also cover Sex Pistols' 1977 b-side "Did You No Wrong" here. (And the self-explanatory Donald Rumsfeld-George W. Bush dedicated "Blood Red River", begins like David Bowie's 1977 LOW song, "Breaking Glass".) PMG board recorded this November, 2005 gig 11 months before the venue ended its 33 year run, and LIVE AT CBGB makes an alternative first album; only four cuts would make their 2008 eponymous debut. The rest, as they say, is history --- and here it's caught alive, not dead.
SUN QUEEN (Digital Single)
Pale Moon Gang is back with another digi-single, this one a plateful of things to come from an album being recording at Williamsburg, Brooklyn's excellent Excello. (My *Last Burning Embers* made an LP there in 2001.) They're still rockin' a Stooges track I detected last issue on "Times are Hard for Dreamers," but "Sun Queen" feels more broadly Detroit proto-punk, hard' 70s riff-strutting like The Dogs, Destroy All Monsters, Death, and, later, New Race, with some panting for the ladies from broader '70s rock. Lock up your daughters?
The late great Paul Autry's review of our debut album
PALE MOON GANG / "PALE MOON GANG" (Fast Loose Records)
ballbustermusic.com - Jan 2008
This is rock'n'roll slash punk that reminds me of Johnny Thunders, early Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, The Clash and anyone else who seemed to create music from the gut. Not a lot of people make'em like this anymore. Luckily for the people who happen to like a good musical kick in the face, Pale Moon Gang is willing to deliver. For those of you who refuse to grow up and accept all the crap that's floating around out there today... crap that they call music... this release is for you. This is the real deal.
Contact Pale Moon Gang
Email us at at palemoongang@gmail.com
Buy the album at CD Baby
