Music

Gap Band–covering, Gretchen Wilson–duetting porn star Kid Rock's appropriation of Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band's "Live" Bullet cover design seemed pretty untoppable. But then came fellow suburban-Detroit native Huck Johns, who looks like Tim McGraw and who wrote a song for Kid once and who covers Seger's "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" between ripping off AC/DC and ELO and STP, with an album on Hideout/Capitol. Unless you're acquainted with Seger's "Persecution Smith" and "East Side Story" you might not get why that label designation is so funny. But trust me, it is. (PS: Two best songs below quoting "Highway to Hell": "Love Comes A-Tumblin' Down," Cheap Trick, 1980; "Oh Yeah," Huck Johns, 2006.)

CHEAP TRICK
All Shook Up
(Epic/Legacy '80s pop-metal reissue)
Stream "Just Got Back" (Windows Media)
Stream "Baby Loves To Rock" (Windows Media)

CHEAP TRICK
Dream Police
(Epic/Legacy '70s pop-metal reissue)
Stream "Dream Police" (Windows Media)
Stream "Voices" (Windows Media)

GINGER
Valor Del Corazón
(Round glam-rock singer-songwriter album)
Stream "The Man Who Cheated" (Myspace)

HUCK JOHNS
Huck
(Hideout/Capitol hard-rock singer-songwriter album)
Stream "Fever" (Windows Media)
Stream "Free" (Windows Media)

KID ROCK & THE TWISTED BROWN TRUCKER BAND
"Live" Trucker
(Atlantic hick-hop–rock album)
Stream "Son of Detroit" (Windows Media) href="http://sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?link=06r5zgpfbluyb98lnzp4e91&r=20.asx">Cowboy" (Windows Media)

KILL CHEERLEADER
All Hail
(Spinerazor glam-metal–punk album)
Stream "Sell Your Soul" (Windows Media) href="http://sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?link=ukcokjo644msj957jejrs6u&r=20.asx">Go Away" (Windows Media)

MOTT THE HOOPLE
All The Young Dudes
(Columbia/Legacy '70s glam-rock reissue)
Stream "Sweet Jane" (Windows Media)
Stream "Sucker" (Windows Media)

MOTT THE HOOPLE
Mott
(Columbia/Legacy '70s glam-rock reissue)
Stream "Whizz Kid" (Windows Media)
Stream "Violence" (Windows Media)

NAGG
Nagg
(Dollar Record glam-metal album)
Download "Another Day" (Windows Media)
Download "Beauty of the Bitch" (Windows Media)

PENTAGRAM
First Day Here Too: Vintage Collection
(Relapse '70s heavy-rock reissue)
Stream "Wheel Of Fortune" (Windows Media)
Stream "Teaser" (Windows Media)

SHINY MAMA
What Comes Around Goes Around
(Shiny Mama Schismatik glam-metal album)
Download "Got A Thing" (Windows Media)
Download "Rover" (Windows Media)

CJ SLEEZ
Back From The Brink
(CJ Sleez Spinerazor post-riot-grrrl metal-punk EP)
Download "Dirty Girl" (Windows Media)
Download "Skin Deep" (Windows Media)