DAMNED BY FAINT PRAISE

Beats listening to John Mellencamp singing about our country during a commercial for full-sized pickup trucks. That's the best I could come up with for Blanche's "What This Town Needs" on V2 Records. You can listen to it for free and read the review at PaperThinWalls.COM

Or how 'bout, "The spectacles on the dame are Elvis Costello-cute." Or, "You'll catch this band a year or so from now in front of an upper-middle-class audience and their kids on Austin City Limits." Or "They're from Detroit? I thought Ted Nugent was from Detroit." Perhaps, "You can hear the wind blowing the dust in their faces on this tune."