15 years in the making and the kings of the Sunset Strip return! Swingin' Thing is back with 'The Black List' - 14 never before heard recordings that will blow your mind! Straight from the Glam & Sleaze vaults, Demon Doll Records and Swingin' Thing have teamed up to hand pick the songs that would have encompassed the first major label release from the band. Including never before released versions of Supersonic, All That Glitters and Do You Feel Alright. 'The Black List' will bring you back to the glory days of the Sunset Strip when the boys reigned supreme, sold out shows were the norm and signing major label record deals were all in a days work! Be the first to hear All For The Love Of Rock 'N' Roll (which was going to be released as the first single on the Encino Man soundtrack), soak in the self destruction of D.I.Y., Pills, Manic Meltdown and 1994. Get smashed up by the boys version of I Got A Right, a cover that even Iggy himself would be proud of. This album will literally melt your face off! Also included in the booklet, is the history behind the collection of songs and the story of the era from which they came, written by guitarist Sunny Phillips. Every step of the way, Swingin' Thing have been with us to make this record. From choosing and arranging the songs, to mastering the album, to peeling the flyers of the wall to make the album cover (which was actually going to be used for the major label release), to the glass mastering from which the album was silver pressed! According to Swingin' Thing guitarist Sunny Phillips, As a band we were very proud of these songs and believed they were the best music we had recorded to date. It is fair to say that if Swingin Thing would have remained a Hollywood Records recording artist, our first release would have been very similar to this CD

Invoking Public Image Ltd., it's a robotic voice that introduces Boys Noize's excellent 2012 effort Out of the Black, looping through that This is what you want, this is what you get couplet, although this time, there are no ironic intentions or snide ways about it. This aptly titled effort is a wall-to-wall triumph of speaker ripping, black as night and hooky with that heritage-style neo-electro that Alexander Ridha and his Boys Noize project have nailed and thrilled fans with previously, planet rocking and bass dropping like Bambaataa, the Miami bass scene, Skrillex, Fatboy Slim, and Kraftwerk all at the laptop, crafting something for the Mad Decent label or Paul Oakenfold's radio show. All that said, Out of the Black has a nimble way about it that's identifiable as Ridha, as Kraftwerk samples (the crowd-pleasing transmission XTC), a vicious Snoop Dogg appearance (Ho's give up the cat to the thunder man on the strutting Got It), and Giorgio Moroder-flavored Euro-disco (Chonchord and Reality both coast along the space ways) all enter and exit without disrupting the album's flow. As far as 2012 sounds, Rocky 2 is as garish and punchy as its movie sequel namesake with a bass drop that bangs around like a video game boss, and if the grime genre sipped syrup it would sound like the woozy wobbler Circus Full of Clowns with rapper Gizzle luring the listener into a cold, nightmarish world. It's arguably the one to skip, as the rest of this bass beast is cool over cold and fun over frightening, but leave it in for headphone listening as Out of the Black works either on the dancefloor or at the workstation, offering beat nuts from the Front 242 generation to the Deadmau5 kids their deep, dark, and delicious fix. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi