Radio Caprice - PSYCHOBILLY

Russian radio culture has embraced microgenres in ways American stations never developed capacity for. Radio Caprice's psychobilly stream proves the point. Psychobilly fuses rockabilly's rhythmic DNA with punk's attitude and horror-movie aesthetics - it's a genuinely weird genre that shouldn't work. But enthusiasts understand the appeal immediately. The station plays everything from 50s rockabilly records that influenced the genre to contemporary acts mining the same energy. Stray Cats appear next to Batmobile alongside obscure European acts who've adopted the style. There's logic to the seque…