Young and Reckless is the name of the new album by Dirty Penny, and it also should be known as the theme to their release party that was held a couple weeks ago in their hometown of Santa Cruz Calif.

We sat down with 'em for a chat on their new music, life on the road, and a session of 'remember that.'

Some highlights: drummer Spanky can't do backflips. Big chunks of metal can hurt tour vans, and I'm a horrible horrible interviewer. Watch all the action right here right here right here.

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Dirty Penny has posted the first single off their next album on their MySpace.

Album is Young & Reckless. Song is 'If I Were You, I'd Hate Me To'

Listen to it HERE.

(PS: nice booty shorts Spanky.)

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California... knows how to party. That was solidified this summer on a classic Golden State day when we got Santa Cruz hard rock and roll band Dirty Penny on a roof top in San Francisco. Tyno, Binge, Spanky and Jonny threw down a set that inspirerd the neighborhood to take to their roofs and tune in for blocks. It was a day you say to yourself this is why the word 'this is so fucking RAD' exists. Wait what? Then we hit the town to keep the party going and the cameras rolling. What we captured 'Midnight Ride' put to film.

And yes that roof is my house and oh yes we are doing it again. This time you are welcome to join. We'll let you know.

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Yeah, they're on the way.

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Last weekend we snuck onto the set of Dirty Penny's music video shoot and loitered around for a while. The guys were shooting the video for the first single, 'If I Were You I'd Hate Me To', off their soon to be released sophomore album. I can't offer many details right now except there was lots of Red Bull and it's fucking sick, but here are a couple pictures I surreptitiously snapped while lurking around.

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I woke up this morning with the foggy memory of a dream I had last night which centered around me watching a video on YouTube, over and over, staring at three spandex-wearing hairy Italian guys, Hitler, Sylvester Stalone, piles of spaghetti, Al Capone and the Whisky A Go-Go. Then I realized it wasn't a dream at all but something that happened in between vodkas and my girlfriend dragging me to sleep.

Turns out Italian glam rockers S.E.X. Department grabbed hold of a video camera and iMovie and pumped out a classic promo video. Now before you watch the video let me warn you: this isn't safe for work. Not because of old-school visual obscenities like nudity and swearing. That is something you'd expect from a metal video. But because after watching a S.E.X Department promo video you will be so completely mind-boggled as to what the hell just happened you won't even be able to sharpen your pencil, if we still used those in the 21st Century. For instance, I'm pretty sure at least a minute of my life was wasted wondering why are these guys wearing police uniforms that say S.E.X. Department? No more questions. Just watch:

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"I’m so over the Internet, Twitter is ridiculous and there’s too much info out there. Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.”

- Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx is not a 21st Century Digital Boy. He explains to the Wall Street Journal how rock stars should 'control' their image.

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Yesterday morning. Rise and shine America.

YEEEAAAAHHHHH!

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The band currently known as Steel Panther will be appearing on a show called Z Rock sometime in the future. They are competing in a battle of the bands.

I have one clip from the show where SP come up with a little jingle in the dressing room of a competitor. It's neat. I'll have to remember that one.

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If you were an alien, pointing your high-tech intergalactic telescope from the window of your flying saucer last weekend, and you happened to zoom in on Oklahoma, you'd be scared of Earth and never come back.

That's because a hundred hair metal bands converged into Rocklahoma for three days of loud shredding music rocking the hell out of everything. Twisted Sister, Anthrax, LA Guns, Ratt, Skid Row, Great White, Warrant, Faster Pussycat, and Anvil were there playing for the thousands of fans in 100 plus degree heat about forty five minutes from Tulsa.

Santa Cruz metalers Dirty Penny rocked the Strip Stage on Friday night. We spoke to guitarist Jonny where he told us "It was fucking crazy. Probably 140 degrees onstage..."

Here they are that night. 

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