Rock-a-Rama
ROCK-A-RAMA
This month's Rock-A-Ramas were written by Richard Riegel, Richard C. Walls, Billy Altman, Rick Johnson, and Michael Davis.
STEPMOTHERS-You Were Never My Age (Posh Boy):: Buzzsaw punk as an ideal (you don�t necessarily parrot in yer own jagged rock), say these L.A.�s-finest Stepmothers. Shrill, jangling, nervous, poppy-edged stuff, like if Dino, Desi, & Billy had had their pimply political consciousnesses raised 29 eons or so since 1966. Yeh, right, except that the Stepmothers also have some abso-Limey quest (try on the Clash or Jam here) in the backs of their earnest brains & homemade rebel songs. Lita Ford cameos, the obligatory Fowley number sounds decent, and the Stepmothers cover �To Sir With Love� (as in Lulupalooza) with defiantly stunning heavy-metal punk irony. A subversive combo(nation). R.R.