Debut CD

Sick Little Monkey, Devil Gods debut album, has been released. Engineered by David Minehan and Devil Gods, the CD contains 14 songs including expansive electric guitar stomps, psychedelic rip-ups, acoustic numbers and three instrumentals. It's more than 70 minutes of music. For more about the band's sound, see the bio below. To order the CD, send a check for $14 (including postage and handling) made out to:

Devil Gods rock like hell!

This powerful foursome from Boston keep their feet nailed to the bluesy floor and their heads in the psychedelic clouds. Wild double guitars alternately dive bomb the rock-solid rhythm section or float above a tribal whisper, like a butterfly that's gotten into the spiked Kool-Aid. Lap steels, table steels, dobro, bajo sexto, slide guitars, acoustic six-strings and a ship-load of effects provide a canvas for clear-eyed and often ironic lyrics that zero in on the things that make life a cheap, twisted thrill.

This potent musical force has been digitally captured on Devil Gods' new triPup Records CD, Sick Little Monkey. The disc includes loads of original songs, re-imagined covers from as far back as the 1940s and three spontaneous instrumentals. The critically acclaimed debut features 14 offerings to the altar of guitar, weaving electric and sometimes acoustic textures together like a Navaho blanket from the Twilight Zone. For reviews, samples and artwork, click into the storm at www.devilgods.com or www.guitartemple.com

Devil Gods include sonic guitar whiz kids Ted Drozdowski (songwriter and singer) and Mark Sullivan (lead and effects demon), Rob Hulsman (percussion) and Bob (bass). Ted and Mark have previously collaborated in the all-improvised, five-guitar hurricane Bloodblister, whose dates included opening for Marc Ribot and headlining sets at the Knitting Factory. This is their first song-based band together.

Both Ted and Mark have toured with such bands as Cherrydisc recording artists Vision Thing, Bloodblister, Vox Pop and the Civics. Ted was the leader of Vision Thing, which Tom Moon of Rolling Stone praised for its strong songwriting and sonic scope. Ted's songs have been aired internationally, which he finds somewhat perplexing and completely cool. He is also music director of John Sinclair & His Boston Blues Scholars, a band that tours annually with that famous member of the American counterculture and subject of a song by John Lennon. (Their Steady Rollin' Man CD is also available on triPup.)

Mark has played in sessions and the Civics were oddly popular in Hong Kong. Rob's pro career behind the tubs began in the '80s with Kentucky cow-punk pioneers Nine Pound Hammer. Recording two LPs and touring the world and beyond alongside Blaine Cartwright, Nine Pound guitarist and eventual founder of Grammy-nominated act Nashville Pussy, Rob shared the stage with such bands as the Circle Jerks, Dee Dee Ramone, Urge Overkill, the UK Subs, Sham 69, and many others. In 1993, Rob joined Kentucky blues-boogie rockers Taildragger (www.taildraggerrocks.com). The band, nominated for Best Unsigned Act in the 1997 Los Angeles Music Awards, released Anywhere Nowhere, a critically praised CD of swampy blues mixed with aggressive rock. Bob was born to a Detroit family so poor they couldn't afford a surname. Since coming to the Boston area he has enjoyed a wildly successful music career, earning hundreds of dollars annually playing with George Gritzbach, touring South Africa with the Journeyman Rhythm Section, and performing with Barrence Whitfield, Weepin' Willie and Jump the Groove.

Devil Gods keen sonic sense and intense punctuality have made them an East Coast favorite. The band continues to bring their guitar-dominated madness to just about anywhere that serves beer, and some places that don't.