Monroe’s newest batch of songs is hard-hitting and honors tradition while searching for some new kick-ass ingredients to mix into the primordial rock‘n’roll stew. The band gives the more melodic material a punky attitude that the songs wear with style. The beating heart of the group consists of bassist Sami Yaffa and drummer Karl Rockfist. Sami and Michael go way back, to the 1980s – Sami played bass in Hanoi Rocks, launched Demolition 23 with Michael and started cult band Mad Juana in Spain in the 1990s, before going on to play in the reformed New York Dolls, as well as with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts this millennium. Karl has pounded the skins behind stars like Glenn Danzig and Joan Osborne.
