{"id":27380,"date":"2025-11-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27380"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:07:50","slug":"pillbox-nyc-calling-from-nowhereland-vicious-kitten-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27380","title":{"rendered":"Pillbox NYC – ‘Calling from Nowhereland’ (Vicious Kitten Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pillbox NYC were a no frills RnR band, who we see here captured for prosperity on a freezing Vancouver night in February 1994. The band featured Mr Ratboy, Steve Mach and Screamin\u2019 Joe Rizzo, who collectively blazed their own way through the grunge-filled \u201890s and with their one album – 1993\u2019s \u2018Jimbo\u2019s Clown Room\u2019 – became a cult classic, which this recording shows how raw and in your face this band really were!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the glam-loving freaks out there, the late Steve Mach\u2019s name rang bells for me, as I recognised the name from Skin N Bones, who released the glam classic \u2018Not A Pretty Sight\u2019 in 1990. And while that album is an entirely different being altogether, it does highlight the RnR side to the band!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many have likened Pillbox NYC to D-Generation, but truth be told, while they shared a post-punk\/glam glunk style, these were more of a dirtier proposition and sound all the better for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With songs like \u2019Sinister Urge\u2019 and \u2018Holly\u2019, you have two of the most obnoxious opening songs ever committed to tape and easily set the tone for the rest of the album. Follow that up with \u20185000 Miles\u2019 and \u2018Come Up Heroin\u2019. You can almost feel the eyeliner, grit and filthy fingernails between your ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The standout track for me is the live show closer of \u2018What She Wants\u2019, which is clearly an undiscovered classic. Following the live show, which is an underrated gem of a show, we have another nine songs in demo format, which were recorded as Jimbo\u2019s Basement tapes from 1992. Most of which appeared rerecorded on the aforementioned \u2018Jimbo\u2019s Clown Room\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These demos are for me the true highlight of this release, showing how brilliant this band was and why they should have been massive! Again, this CD will be of interest mainly to the glunk purists out there, but every lover of glam, punk, etc should give this a spin, and you will be rewarded with a time capsule that delivers the glunk like no other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Dave Prince<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pillbox NYC were a no frills RnR band, who we see here captured for prosperity on a freezing Vancouver night in February 1994. The band featured Mr Ratboy, Steve Mach and Screamin\u2019 Joe Rizzo, who collectively blazed their own way through the grunge-filled \u201890s and with their one album – 1993\u2019s \u2018Jimbo\u2019s Clown Room\u2019 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7532,8913,8281],"class_list":["post-27380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-dave-prince","tag-pillbox-nyc","tag-vicious-kitten-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27380","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=27380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27386,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27380\/revisions\/27386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}