With manic paces, female lead vocals and harmonies, a sci-fi/b-movie fetish, and an eerie funhouse keyboard, yer getting a good new spin on an old theme.
Some things are meant to roll like thunder across the plain. Heavy, syrupy metal riffs that mesh and work together much like the muscles in a dinosaur’s legs.
Todd Lewis has a Robert Plant vibrato that quakes with fury, trembles with passion and longing, and purrs like a finely-tuned muscle car at a stop light.
You can hear big, burly men beating the snot out of each other, drinking and wenching in a sticky-floored tavern, and mourning the loss of fallen brothers.
A three-piece all-girl street punk band from Tokyo? Sounds like a gimmick, but if it is, it’s a good one cuz these girls rock! Discovered by DKM’s Ken Casey.
Turbo A.C.’s gained notoriety on Blackout! and Cacophony and now rev their duel carbs (one greaser, one hard surf) with the Nitro sticker on the bumper.
From Atlanta. A British singer. One guitarists is into the lush texture of Midnight Oil and The Church, the other is into George Harrison and Keith Richards.
Sweet, catchy Britpop (relocated to NYC, but back in the UK now), not better or worse than the rest, but much more resourceful, for whatever that’s worth.