`The Kats might do for `10s rockabilly what Green Day did for `90s

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2012 ISSUE
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INDIE SCENE
KOFFIN KATS
Our Way & the Highway
koffinkatsrock.com
With a few notable exceptions—the grisly murder tale “A Terrible Way”
and apocalyptic rager “The Devil Asked” among them—the Koffin Kats
spend much of their sixth album singing about boozing and touring. If
the songs are autobiographical, the Detroit psychobilly trio hasn’t let its
lifestyle become a hindrance. The production is pomade-slick, and the
playing is tighter than sopping-wet Levis—even when singer and upright
bassist Vic Victor is seemingly bloodying his slapping hand to keep pace
with the Clydesdale drumming. Our Way is for big rooms and broad
audiences; were this sort of Fonzie-style thrashing more marketable,
the Kats might do for ’10s rockabilly what Green Day did for ’90s punk.
‘The Kats might do for ’10s
rockabilly what Green Day did for
’90s punk.’
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2012 M MUSIC & MUSICIANS MAGAZINE