Hank Williams III

Hank Williams III

Hank III's back with yet another album filled with his punkified country. Damn Right Rebel Proud is typical Williams and its tracks feature his usual swagger and lyrics meant to shock. Opener "The Grand Ole Opry (Ain't So Grand)" takes aim at a Nashville institution that Williams feels has (more often than not) given the snub to some of...
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Hank Williams III Needs To Drop Metal, Stick With Country

Hank Shelton Williams III needs no introduction. Anyone worth their weight in salt would give a reproductive organ to have a legacy such as his — sans some of the drama, mind you. From a grandfather who redefined country music to a papa who, well, didn't quite give the genre a similar degree of coolness but kept it afloat until old Shel here...
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I Read The News Today... For May 7, 2010

Chromeo's Business Casual is out Aug. 17. Last Gang The debut album from The Minotaurs, Eat Yr Hate, is out July 1. It was produced by Woodpigeon's Arran Fisher. MySpace Queens Of The Stone Age will reissue 2000's Rated R in July. No, it will not be retitled NC-17. NME Are Library Voices Canada's unluckiest band? Last year, all their gear was...
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Pumping: Hank III — Damn Right Rebel Proud

We like the idea of Hank Williams III's country rebel drinking story plus occasional heavy metal good times parade somewhat more than his actual music, but you'd have to be a certain kind of tight-ass to not appreciate the dedication to G.G. Allin right before the punch-fight-fuck song "P.F.F." You'd never Tim McGraw or that Keith Urban...
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Hank III Is A Proud Rebel

Hank Williams III is bringing cowpunk back into stores on Oct. 21 with the Curb Records release of Damn Right Rebel Proud. Williams (real name Shelton Hank Williams) recorded his fourth studio album over two weeks at his east Tennessee home with friends. He describes it as "Jekyll and Hyde," as it's split between country songs and...
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Foxy Case Is Still On Top

Neko Case's Fox Confessor Brings The Flood retains the top spot on the chart this week. Pink Mountaintops' Axis Of Evol moves up two places to grab the #2 spot, pushing Belle And Sebastian's The Life Pursuit down to #3. Magneta Lane's Dancing With Daggers inches up one place to #4 and Cat Power's The Greatest slides down two places to #5....
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