We recently got the amazing opportunity to check out The Amplifier Heads new album “Songs From They Came To Rock” which is available today (April 5th) via Rum Bar Records . You can check out “Songs From They Came To Rock” on Bandcamp Here

This record is the soundtrack to executive producer Norty Cohen’s immersive rock opera about an alien invasion and its undeniable connection to rock and roll. Amplifier Heads leader and Boston music scene icon Sal Baglio has crafted a masterclass in extra-terrestrial rock with a sound that spans decades, compiling an all-star crew — Dave Mattacks, Jen D’Angora, Dan Kopko, Barrence Whitfield, Richard Hilton (Nile Rogers Band), Henley Douglas Jr., and Tom West (Peter Wolf) — for a 10-track, eight transmission interlude record. 

First debuting in Nashville three years ago and receiving praise from Rolling Stone, Cohen’s theatrical production of They Came To Rock details a story about friendly little green men coming to Earth – which they call The Vinyl Frontier – in search of the type of music heard through static and noise on their radio.

“The term rock opera has come to mean different things to anyone’s interpretation,” Baglio says. “There is a lyrical and musical line that follows through the record. Some fantasy, some fact. It is a musical speed rocket trip and the seat belt sign is off!”

“Songs From They Came To Rock” from The Amplifier Heads, is literally a musical work of art that is out of this world.

We first came into contact with “Songs From They Came To Rock “ by way of the epic title track “They Came To Rock,” featuring Barrence Whitfield.

“Songs From They Came To Rock is very different from all of my previous Amplifier Heads records which are essentially recorded solo with the assistance of one or two other musicians,” says Baglio. “With it being a soundtrack, I chose to work with many good friends which gives the record an entirely varied and different sound than anything prior.” 

There’s Whitfield declaring arrival with a soul dynamo fever on the title track; D’Angora shaking out a ‘60s retro-pop bop in “Something Went Down,” about the most famous UFO event in England’s history, taking places at Rendlesham Forest on Christmas 1980; and a ‘70s psych-glam transmission through “Bienvenue” and Kopko’s “Dead Star.” Early single “Space Cadette,” a riff-rocking shaker that landed in 2022 and received heavy airplay and attention on Little Steven’s Underground Garage on SiriusXM, details Betty and Barney Hill’s 1961 encounter of a UFO on a deserted highway in New Hampshire.

“Songs From They Came To Rock” is an intergalactic musical experience, that you can’t afford to miss.