“We’re moist because we sweat.”

Moistboyz is a Ween off-shoot; when they started up ten or so years ago, they were Ween’s rap-metal doppelgangers, spouting Mentors-y shit about chicks and drugs and whatever petty offenses popped into their boozy skulls. This was pretty surprising stuff, seeing as Ween were known mostly as college rock pranksters to most people. Then, thankfully, rap-metal died it’s much-deserved death in the late 90’s, and the Moistboyz went back to pushing daisies or whatever. Until a couple years ago, when they re-emerged as a searing, Stooges style ‘garbage rock’ band, which is the version we have here, recorded last September in NYC. Dickie Moist is shirtless and tattooed, prowling the stage like ’73 Iggy, and the band just rips through one nasty punk tune after another, most of them about masturbation or fat women. A couple of the songs have rap stuff in ‘em, I guess, but Dickie mostly growls like an angry dog. Dunno much about the Moistboyz recording history, so I can’t say whether this is new junk or classic rot, but it’s got “That What Rock N’ Roll Can Do” and “White Trash” and “Fuck No” on it, if that helps. I can see how the source material might sound dated, but the live versions here are raw, ragged, full-contact rock n’ roll. It’s shot pretty simply, but it looks sharp and the audio is suitably ear-bleeding. Check it out if you dig these fuckers, or the Dwarves, or Nig Heist, or any kinda obnoxious motherfrucker rock, really.  _____________________________________________________

- Sleazegrinder