{"id":24917,"date":"2024-06-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=24917"},"modified":"2024-06-13T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T20:39:04","slug":"l-a-drugz-outside-place-hovercraft-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=24917","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Drugz &#8211; &#8216;Outside Place&#8217; (Hovercraft Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/a2525207023_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/a2525207023_10-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/a2525207023_10-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/a2525207023_10-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/a2525207023_10-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/a2525207023_10-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/a2525207023_10-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/a2525207023_10-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/a2525207023_10.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Eleven years after it was originally released I think I might have picked it up from Wanda Records when I saw Buzzcocks, The Nerves, The Beat, and The Plimsouls influenced them it was a no-brainer. It featured Justin Maurer as the main protagonist. How could it fail? Well, you&#8217;ll be glad to know it didn&#8217;t, and it continues to sound fresh and exciting every time I decide to drop the needle in the grooves. Man, that title track is like Audio Heroine it&#8217;s so addictive and playing it once just isn&#8217;t enough.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hell, Look at the record jacket these cats look like they know how to have a good time and get up to mischief and do it whilst writing the best in New Wave, Punk rock known to mankind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LA DRUGZ - Outside Place\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5xQr2A6n2Jk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The group, featuring Justin Maurer from CLOROX GIRLS and SUSPECT PARTS, James Carman of MANIAC, TELEPHONE LOVERS, THE REFLECTORS, and IMAGES, Cezar Mora from BAD MACHINE, and Johnny &#8220;JD&#8221; Reyes, formerly of IMAGES and BAD MACHINE, forms a punk\/power pop outfit that has pedigree and oozes quality from every pore. &#8216;Vampire&#8217; just rolls on by with the sweet Bv&#8217;s stopping it nodding out its so snotty it should have catapulted the band to big things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by the dissolution of CLOROX GIRLS in 2010, Maurer, along with Cezar Mora, and James Carman, embarked on crafting original songs under the moniker LA DRUGZ.  A 10-year anniversary edition reissue is always welcome. It&#8217;s classic power pop new wave and punk, from the likes of The Briefs and of course Cute Lepers and the likes of Duncan Reid from the Boys. Infectious tracks like &#8220;Ooh Ooh Ooh&#8221; and &#8220;Marina,&#8221; are two examples of effortless pop melodies with a rough and ready exterior. Produced by the band in Calimucho, Kevin Carle\u2019s home studio, and mastered by Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory it knows what it&#8217;s after and knows the people to deliver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only problem with this is still only has six tracks. I would have loved to see it expanded with more music but hey you don&#8217;t always get what you want and if you didn&#8217;t get on board the first time around then don&#8217;t miss it this time &#8211; you can&#8217;t say you haven&#8217;t been warned. It&#8217;s a stellar EP chanting the gang vocals on &#8216;Out On The Street&#8217; is a classic that sounds like it should have been included in The Warriors soundtrack and then it&#8217;s done.  Buy It! Essential EP Purchase trashy, snotty and a genuine punk rock earworm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buy <a href=\"https:\/\/ladrugz.bandcamp.com\/album\/outside-place-ep\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ladrugz.bandcamp.com\/album\/outside-place-ep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author:Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven years after it was originally released I think I might have picked it up from Wanda Records when I saw Buzzcocks, The Nerves, The Beat, and The Plimsouls influenced them it was a no-brainer. It featured Justin Maurer as the main protagonist. How could it fail? Well, you&#8217;ll be glad to know it didn&#8217;t, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6772],"class_list":["post-24917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-l-a-drugz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24921,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917\/revisions\/24921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}