Jubilee: ROCK'N'FUCKINGROLL Part. 2 (Five Weeks Later...)

(This review will make much more sense if you've read the one previous to it.)

Picking up right where we left off…

Album: In With The Out Crowd Single

Genre: Hard Rock

Year: 2008

Label: Buddyhead

Consisting almost exclusively of hard rockers, The In With The Out Crowd Single has a far heavier sound to it than Rebel Hiss did. It (of course) starts off with the title track, a song about being stuck in L.A. with all the people who go to L.A. to make it big and wind up working in diners or something. It’s a more down beat song than the explosive “Rebel Hiss” but it rocks just as hard, featuring more fuzzy, distorted guitar goodness from North and Lynn. The first b-side on “In With The Out Crowd” takes a turn for the more experimental direction. Sounding more Industrial than anything else Jubilee has thus far set to tape, “I Don’t Have An Excuse, I Just Need A Little Help” features programmed drums from Trent Reznor and backing vocals from Maynard James Keenan of TooL, both of which, along with Michael Shuman’s rough bass line and North’s jagged guitars, make it the darkest sounding Jubilee song in existence.

The third track is the humorous “Jenny Artichoke” which lyrically sounds like something The Presidents Of The United States Of America could have come up with and even features hand claps. It’s the most fun and funny song Jubilee’s recorded work, which contrasts heavily with “I Don’t Have An Excuse, I Just Need A Little Help.” Following that is the bone shaking, ground pounding “Pioneers Get Shot With Arrows” which stomps up and down the room just daring for someone to challenge it to a fight. It could kick your ass too. The final song on the single another cover, Jubilee’s take on The Who’s “Someone’s Coming” which to my knowledge is not a famous Who song at all. But it’s a good one, or at least the Jubilee version is, bent and twisted as it is by North and Lynn’s guitars.

The music of Jubilee is undeniably fantastic; it’s all the stuff after the music that causes confusion. Shortly following their tour of England, Shuman and Lynn left the band to go back to Wires On Fire (which doesn’t make any sense to me, because compared to Jubilee, Wires On Fire suck,) so North hooked up with Tony Bevilacqua (of Spinnerette, formerly of The Distillers) and Jenni Tarma (of Har Mar Superstar.) He also got a permanent drummer in the form of former Icarus Line drummer Troy "Boy" Petrey. This new line-up actually doesn’t sound half bad, but they’ve yet to tour and Jubilee hasn’t released anything new in a while. Which brings up the question: where’s the album? It’s been close to two years since the first single was released and if the album’s going to be anything like it, then it’s bound to be good. So what are you waiting for North? Hit us with this bad boy!

End of Review.

Note: If you want to make purchase of Jubilee’s material, you can only do it from their website. You have to be a member of their online club thing to get The Who and Replacements covers, but if you just want the first four tracks from each single, it rounds out to about $6.00. Good deal for this music.