LIVESTREAM: Messer Chups

While Messer Chups’ mostly instrumental sound is hard to neatly categorize, it’s safe to say that it would be embraced by fans of rockabilly, horror punk, vintage surf records, Italian slasher films, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Pulp Fiction, lounge music, the theremin, The Cramps, and the theme song from The Munsters.

Their catchy music combines surf, vintage Russian melodies, rare film samples from the 50s and 60s, scratchy historical recordings, and lounge loops. Live, they explode with garage-punk intensity, all played against a video-collage backdrop of mid-century trashy cult and horror movie clips featuring Russ Meyer and Ed Wood, and superstars like Vampira and Bela Lugosi in a zombie mash-up.

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Hailing from the Blacklands Prairie of Texas, Nicky Diamonds' songwriting style is rooted in memories of an America that once was. He's keeping the blues alive by pulling inspiration from old hymn books, recounting the stories of his ancestors and adding a captivating twist to the tales and tunes of our people. Nicky spends most of his time touring the country with his 96-year-old Dobro and occasionally with his band The Deepcuts.

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