Westside Cowboy - "Don't Throw Rocks"
Photo by Charlie Barclay Harris Westside Cowboy started after James (Jimmy) Bradbury read Billy Bragg's book on the history of skiffle. The band may have been inspired by the early UK rock and roll movement described in Roots, Radicals and Rockers , but they certainly don't sound much like that genre. Their latest single, "Don't Throw Rocks," has a much more indie rock style, with a guitar sound that seems to combine country twang with indie rock whine. Despite being just over three minutes, "Don't Throw Rocks" is a giant epic of a song that builds and builds upon itself. Westside Cowboy have crafted an impressive new single that has us desperately craving more. The band says of their new single: “Jimmy’s lyrics on this deal a lot in time and change, and how it, more often than not, moves out of our control and without niceties. We wanted the music to reflect this too. With each section, we wanted to add a new gear, to increase the intensity until it...