The Cuts - From Here on Out

These days, the world is full of misguided youngsters who love the 1970s for all the wrong reasons (regrettable clothing, bad television shows, cut-rate animated cartoons), but The Cuts are one band of twenty-somethings who clearly understand what was right about that benighted decade -- rock & roll. Listening to The Cuts' third album, From Here On Out, one hears flashes of the power pop genius of Big Star and The Scruffs, the glam rock swagger of Slade and Sweet, the hard rock punch of Cheap Trick and Mott The Hoople, a handful of forgotten soft rock visionaries produced by Curt Boettcher, and the proto-punk speed jive of early Blondie and The Mumps all bubbling in their gumbo of guitar, drums, and keyboards. Read More