[from LA, CA] equal parts stoner metal, 80s goth, shoegaze, and jam band (at
least during some of the drum solos) - you’re probably picturing a bunch of
guys on stage right now… you big sexist – but no, an all-girl band, and girls
of about 23 at that – breaking through all the barriers, this generation of
girls are – and hotties, every last one of them, with the sort of style that
redeems it – the shy one with bangs covering her face and a flannel shirt a la
the 1990s on lead electric guitar with the voice of a sweet demon – the main
vocalist also on electric guitar with Robert Smith’s hair in white and a
longish tailored black jacket – pretty-pretty girl on bass in dead-center who
ought not to have chewed gum through the whole show – and then the drummer…. oh
the drummer… when they were setting up, I thought, ‘there’s one bitter glum
girl’ but by the time she got going she was helplessly ecstatic, hands and
grins a-flying – some people were born to be drummers and this girl is one of
them – she is the driving force behind the band, leading her friends and the
audience from slow melancholy wailing to driving thrash to genuine dance rock
beats – they used echo effect on all of the vocals which is kind of cheating
but definitely created an effect, reminded me of Siouxsie in spirit to some
extent but of a much harder Mazzy Star most definitely – general aura
reminiscent of The Cure with one song in particular completely replicating the
dark ringing undertones – especially skilled at mixing tempos without seeming
false about it and then drawing you into a lovely mindless repetitive loop of
drone – their most memorable song, although maybe not their best song, was
‘Billie Holiday’: it began with one of them harmonizing original lyrics to the
others spelling out B-I-L-L-I-E-H-O-L-I-D-A-Y – it sounds cheesy but it wasn’t –
the song then progressed into a dark cover of “My Guy” – can’t figure these
girls out in general… I would speculate they’re clean upper class girls with
solid music training and burner leanings but that would just be speculation –
it is not speculation to say that I like them quite a lot – 3 other best things
about the show: 1) crowd was distinctively hipster-folk (consciously but
casually dressed: shabby chic pants, camouflage hats, belly button length
beards, etc.) but probably because Akron/Family followed, 2) their email list
asked your gender, and 3) a guy in the crowd raised his hands up in the shape
of a heart and kept flicking it at pretty-pretty but she didn’t (or refused to)
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