The Space Cowboys
Dead End Streets & Devil's Night

The Space Cowboys may be the latest and possibly the greatest band to blast their way out of Gothenburg, Sweden... "Dead End Streets & Devil's Night" has thirteen tracks of raw, fuel-injected, high-energy rock n' roll. The album is filled with 70's style guitar leads & solos added with an in-your-face punk rock attitude. It rocks as hard as the first couple of Hellacopters releases. Rawness like old school New Bomb Turks. Has the energy & volume of Iggy & The Stooges. Also the toughness of Motorhead. With that said, "Dead End Street & Devil's Night" will leave you wanting more!

Reviews

Review from: www.digitalmetal.com

Rock’s got an impenetrable grasp, and that’s an undeniable fact. Even as you delve deeper and deeper into the realms of the extreme underground, at some point it always comes back to pure rock ‘n’ roll, reminding you where you came from in the first place. For many, the straight-up rawk fix came, at some point or another, from legendary Swedes the Hellacopters. While that band’s early catalogue (Supershitty To The Max and Payin’ The Dues especially) is absolutely required listening ‘cos of the blistering leads and solos found everywhere all the time, the flame eventually extinguished for Nicke Andersson and co. And though that’s a natural part of the maturing process (a band can’t stay the same forever), it left a lot of fans of those classic albums feeling without recourse. I mean, even ex-Hellacopter guitar player Dregen’s Backyard Babies couldn’t match the intensity of early Hellacopters work. ‘Twas a sad state of affairs.

I’m here today to tell you that there’s now reason to rejoice. If you’re a fan of old-school Hellacopters, or punk ‘n’ roll/rock ‘n’ roll in general, look no further than Gothenburg’s Space Cowboys. Though the admittedly stupid band name might put some off, there’s no denying the incredible energy the Space Cowboys exude. Do you crave stop-on-a-dime soloing? Well, it’s here. Are you all about riffs that fucking rock-out like there’s no tomorrow? The Space Cowboys have got ya covered. From start to finish the Space Cowboys don’t let up: this is what rock ‘n’ is and always should be, a vehicle for speed, intensity and high-flying riffs, riffs and more goddamn riffs.
The top track on Dead End Streets & Devil’s Night is, without a doubt, “Damnation High”, a soaring, kick-ass jaunt that affirms life in the most vigorous of ways… the song’s opening salvo is a call to action, a lead line that’s up there with the best the punk ‘n’ roll/pure rock genre has to offer. The rest of the record is equally proficient, and the album’s raw production style only compliments the band’s no-frills, rawk-first approach.

With summer upon us, you won’t find a better record than Dead End Streets & Devil’s Night to crank up with the windows down as you cruise at too-fast speeds on the highway. Check the Space Cowboys out, pronto.

Review from: Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles magazine

Rating: 9 out of 10
For all the rock revival that’s happened over the last five years or so, there’s still one key rock ‘n’ roll element that’s been ignored by its revivalists: the genre’s obsessive emphasis on balls-out energy. We once looked to the usual suspects to provide us with pure rock fury, but most of those guys have either watered down their sound or gotten out of the game altogether. What’s a rock fan to do? Well, for starters, check out The Space Cowboys’ Dead End Streets & Devil’s Night as soon as possible. Embodying the riff-first philosophy and stop-on-a-dime soloing that made those old Hellacopters album so amazing, Gothenburg’s The Space Cowboys do nothing but rock and rock hard. There’s no pussyfooting around on Dead End Streets & Devil’s Night - it’s all about being ultra-loud, fast and raw, with linear, blinders-on devotion to rocking as ferociously as damn possible. This is awesome.

Review from: Black Angel Promotions

There's a noise going on in Sweden that's finally making it's way to the States. This sound is filthy, loud, fast, obnoxious Rock And Roll that is more American than American RnR has ever been! The Hives, The Bones, Backyard Babies, The Peepshows, and Puffball are just a few of the bands recently breaking ear drums on American soil. The latest offering just may be the loudest, fastest, most rude and obnoxious yet!

The Space Cowboys is the name and blowing out speakers MUST be their game. In 1996, the band formed to create this completely new spin on Rock And Roll in the name of influences such as Motorhead, Kiss, The Ramones, Iggy And The Stooges, and The Dead Boys. They spent from 1999 until now releasing EPs and mini-albums on various labels in U.S.A., France, Spain, and Austria, until landing a deal with Sonic Swirl Records out of Cleveland, Ohio. The band took most of 2005 to write and record the monstrous album titled Dead End Streets & Devil's Night.

This album is so loud! When I put it in my player, I had the volume set at my normal level and it about blew me off the couch. I also noticed that all of parametric LED displays on my equalizer were PEGGED and did not budge for the entire album! That's what I'm talking about. Aside from hearing a little bit of their mentioned influences in the music I also picked out some Social Distortion, New York Dolls, and a bit of The Sex Pistols. The production is heavy on mid range and not over-blown like most of today's recordings, which leads me to believe that it was not a lack of money but allegiance to their brand of Rock that resulted in this. Fans of Rock And Roll will appreciate this fact.

The album bursts in with "Sleeping Enemy" and never lets up! There are no 45 second intros, no break-downs, and no slow songs. By the time you get mid-way through to "Gotta Go" you'll be hooked. The songs are very catchy, anathematic, huge, well written and one hell of a ride! There is also just enough of that amateur "thing" to let you know that they're not interested in being anything else but exactly what they are......good, tight, loud, guitar screeching Rock And Roll. Vocalist Daniel Angelin has a rather normal voice that complements the music perfectly. His approach is that of a live performance as you can find spots of voice cracking and general rawness made acceptable by the likes of Lemmy, Iggy, and Johnny Rotten.

This album is so true and honest to itself AND the listener that you have no choice but to love it. There are no tricks and no fast moves. It's all laid out in front of you from the first song all the way to the last. And, as a fan of Rock myself, I say to The Space Cowboys......"Thank you!"

Review from: Scannerzine

Dunno what it is about Nordic bands that make them so proficient at quality Punk Rock 'n' Roll, but this 4-piece outta Sweden have just upped the stakes. These 13 tracks hurtle along with a total disregard for whatever head the songs may smash in to. Think early NEW BOMB TURKS played with the attitude of 'Stink'-era REPLACEMENTS and the intoxicated charm of HANOI ROCKS and you're close. Add on the dirtiest and most pulsating bass sound heard in years and you're closer still. The energy of the songs is unreal - the opening 4-track salvo in particular leave the listener hung, drawn and sonically quartered. Awesome apolitical Punk Rock 'n' Roll played with a conviction that 99% of bands in this genre can but dream of.

Review from: Utter Trash Magazine

These guys are from Sweden, and they sound like a cross between early Hellacopters and The Supersuckers at their most rockin’.  And the songwriting is just as good.  In other words, this should be pure sonic bliss for a certain segment of rock fans.  This is an all too rare case of a band who, sure they’re doing something that’s been done a million times before, but they do it well enough that I’m not the least bit bothered by that.  I love killer guitar riffs, blistering leads, and catchy vocal hooks.  This sucker has all three in spades.  Good enough for me. 

Review from: Razorcake magazine

More Swedes by the way of the garage. Powerful, adrenaline-soaked, noisy and distorted. Hellacopters and New Bomb Turks fans be aware. This is primed and ready to fire on all cylinders. A+

From: Scannerzine.com

Dunno what it is about Nordic bands that make them so proficient at quality Punk Rock 'n' Roll, but this 4-piece outta Sweden have just upped the stakes. These 13 tracks hurtle along with a total disregard for whatever head the songs may smash in to. Think early NEW BOMB TURKS played with the attitude of 'Stink'-era REPLACEMENTS and the intoxicated charm of HANOI ROCKS and you're close. Add on the dirtiest and most pulsating bass sound heard in years and you're closer still. The energy of the songs is unreal - the opening 4-track salvo in particular leave the listener hung, drawn and sonically quartered. Awesome apolitical Punk Rock 'n' Roll played with a conviction that 99% of bands in this genre can but dream of.