This week in The Gutter, we crank up Sweden’s sleaziest soul survivors: Diamond Dogs. Born in the early ’90s with riffs in their teeth and a full-blown addiction to the ragged glory of the Stones and ’70s glam, these guys built it the hard way — sweat-soaked clubs, piano-pounding swagger, and sticky hooks. We dig into the glam-streaked roots, the bar-band hustle, and the unkillable groove that kept them strutting long after trends crashed and burned.

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This week in The Gutter, we’re dragging Company of Wolves back into the light — a New York band that had the songs, the swagger, the connections… and the worst timing imaginable. Right place. Right attitude. Wrong time.

Company of Wolves fused East Coast grit with radio-ready hooks, big choruses, and killer riffs. Their 1990 self-titled album is slick enough for radio, rough enough for the streets — and somehow still got ignored.

And then there’s Steve Conte — who didn’t disappear when Company of Wolves folded. He just kept working. Loud, quiet, behind the scenes, and everywhere else. From the New York Dolls in their second act to becoming Michael Monroe’s go-to songwriter, producer, and musical Swiss Army knife, Conte turned “cult-band survivor” into a long, legit career.

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This week in The Gutter, we take on The Zeros — the glam-leaning power pop outsiders whose album 4, 3, 2, 1 deserved to be more than a cult-status footnote. Big choruses, neon hooks, and street-level swagger. And yeah — these are the same guys who wrote the long-running Howard Stern Show theme song… and still got ignored. We’re breaking down the records, the bad timing, the purple hair, and Sammy Serious’ obsession with signing about names.

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This week in The Gutter, we dive into the chaotic mythology of Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction — one of the most unhinged, testosterone-fueled bands to ever crawl out of late-’80s Britain.

Spawned by former music journalist turned rock ‘n’ roll menace Mark “Zodiac Mindwarp” Manning, this wasn’t just a band — it was a rotating cast of misfit heathens. Built on boogie riffs, cartoonish bravado, and a complete disregard for good taste, Zodiac Mindwarp hovered somewhere between parody and prophecy. Was it satire? Was it dumb as hell? Or was it rock excess in its most honest form?

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This week in The Gutter, we’re doubling down with two bands who shared a name — Johnny Crash and Johnny Law.

First up: Johnny Crash, straight outta late-’80s Los Angeles, where Sunset Strip dreams were colliding head-on with reality. Sleazy riffs, street-level swagger, and a band that looked like the next big thing right as the whole scene was about to implode.

Then we head to Austin, Texas, where Johnny Law were tearing it up far from the hair-sprayed circus of Hollywood. Gritty and loud, Johnny Law mixed blues-soaked energy with hard rock muscle, building their reputation the old-fashioned way — sweat, volume, and pure determination.

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This week in The Gutter, we’re digging into one of the strangest footnotes in late-’80s/early-’90s hard rock history: Stuttering John’s band.
Yeah, that Stuttering John — the wise-cracking, mic-swinging chaos magnet from The Howard Stern Show who somehow wound up fronting a legit rock outfit with real chops, real swagger, and two albums that deserved a hell of a lot more than punchlines. We’re tearing into the songs, the players, and how riding shotgun on the Stern circus maybe helped… but definitely hurt

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This week in The Gutter, we’re digging into one of the sleaziest, most soulful cult bands to ever stagger out of the Lower East Side: The Throbs. These lipstick-smeared street poets were fusing a darker, grittier glam-sleaze sound full of dangerous bluesy swagger. We’ll dive into the making of their criminally overlooked debut, The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds, and the cast of characters—famous, infamous, and occasionally unhinged—that orbited their world.

Expect sleaze. Expect soul. Expect stories about… Little Richard??

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This week in The Gutter, it’s the Kings of Stomp and Glitter — Slade!! —These four hooligans from the English Midlands slapped on platform boots, mirror-ball hats, and built a sound that could level a pub. Before they were blaring out of every jukebox and football stadium in the U.K., these Black Country lads were just four scrappy kids hammering it out in sweaty pubs. We’ll trace their rise from Wolverhampton grit to chart-topping glory, how Noddy Holder’s howl and Dave Hill’s glitter-plated lunacy made them impossible to ignore, and why their raw, working-class swagger still packs a punch decades later.

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