{"id":9012,"date":"2014-05-27T14:36:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9012"},"modified":"2014-05-27T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:36:36","slug":"dex-romweber-duo-images-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/05\/27\/dex-romweber-duo-images-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Dex Romweber Duo \u2013 Images 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/05\/27\/dex-romweber-duo-images-13\/dex-romweber-duo-images-13-300x300\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dex-Romweber-Duo-Images-13-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dex-Romweber-Duo-Images-13-300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always been really confused about why every rockabilly revival act seems to sing songs about being zombies.<!--more--> The original rockabilly guys never sang songs about being zombies, they don\u2019t have anything to do with rockabilly on any level, and the practice started before being obsessed with zombies was a thing in the public zeitgeist. It\u2019s really dumb and stopped being interesting after the Cramps did it, and it feels like every band that does it just does it because that\u2019s what you\u2019re supposed to do as a rockabilly band instead of out of a genuine passion for zombies. Maybe if they had something to say about the zombie condition I\u2019d be more interested.<\/p>\n<p>Dex Romweber, fortunately, does not sing about zombies, which puts him far ahead of the pack when it comes to rockabilly. He also incorporates some heavy garage and surf influences (as well as the occasional jazzy guitar lick, as heard on \u201cLong Battle Coming\u201d) into his sound, which is fantastic if you want to hear a guy play some neat guitar solos with a lot of reverb. You might think this sounds a lot like The White Stripes\u2019 template, and you\u2019d be right! The other half of the Dex Romweber Duo is Dex\u2019s sister, Sara, who I\u2019m assuming is better than Meg White by virtue of having a really punchy drum sound, and Dex\u2019s work with his old band, the Flat Duo Jets, was a big influence on Jack White\u2019s sound. In conclusion, since this is pretty good, and Jack White likes it, you probably will too. I hear he\u2019s a very trustworthy guy! (Bloodshot Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodshotrecords.com\" target=\"_blank\">bloodshotrecords.com<\/a>) <b>Topher Duguay<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always been really confused about why every rockabilly revival act seems to sing songs about being zombies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[115,817],"class_list":["post-9012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bloodshot-records","tag-root-cellar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}