LUNCH-TIME GLITTER ROCK LISTENING PARTY: The Sirens and Slade, for starters
Codpiece and kinky boots, not work safe imagery.
One also wonders where The Sirens' Miggy Starcrunch purchased the gold-colored Wehrmacht staff officer chapeau. Elegantly reminiscent of Erich von Zipper!
In any case, DD has been a fan of The Sirens, a glam band from Detroit, ever since stumbling across their first record at Amoeba on Sunset a couple years ago.
At the time, I wrote:
See the red cat-suit and the original here.
In February, The Sirens returned with More is More, a record jacked up even higher on electric rock platforms than the premier. The cover immediately strikes as taking cues from The Runaways' Live In Japan and Slade's In Flame, two records one knows must be in their record collection.
The Sirens perform covers of glitter rock classics and obscurities. Not infrequently, they improve on the originals with the net result being their albums make the equivalent of great genre mixtapes.
"Sirens singer Muffy Kroha towers over her bandmates on the back cover of More Is More," it is written this week's Baltimore City Paper. "It's her gang and she's kitted them out in gold leather and kinky boots. In return, they furnish the best tones of their career, on their second album in, for glam-rock chestnuts many would shrink from covering. Kroha's ear for the genre is astounding, allowing her to deliver genuine evangelism on Slade's 'Rock 'n' Roll Preacher,' the vibe glommed, she informs, from an old video on YouTube."
Read the entirety, which will surely make you want to buy the album, here.
For the newsstand copy, it's paired with my review of Slade's In For a Penny, an anthology of the band's 70-and-early-80's tunes you never heard, on Shout Factory, out now.
In the forests of Pine Grove, Pennsyltucky, Slade made a huge impression by dint of an early 70's showing on In Concert, part of Friday really late night TV. By Saturday, their volcanic performance had ensured that the handful of rock fans in town all knew of them. This must have happened across the country, but surprisingly, did not result in sales. Although Slade were gang-busters in the United Kingdom, their records did not move in the States and after much earnest straining and trying they abandoned the market. Slade did, however, have a good word-of-mouth audience for their live performances.
In For a Penny and this phenom are briefly written of here.
Making use of HP Image Zone solarization for that vintage 70's blacklight poster vibe. Is that bad?
Masterplan, a German metal band, also reviewed at PaperThinWalls.Com
Codpiece and kinky boots, not work safe imagery.
One also wonders where The Sirens' Miggy Starcrunch purchased the gold-colored Wehrmacht staff officer chapeau. Elegantly reminiscent of Erich von Zipper!
In any case, DD has been a fan of The Sirens, a glam band from Detroit, ever since stumbling across their first record at Amoeba on Sunset a couple years ago.
At the time, I wrote:
The singer of the Sirens ... dresses in a hot vinyl suit ... She also loves to perform Slade tunes, which she claims wreck her throat, not that anyone can tell on the Detroit band's version of "Gudbuy T'Jane." Even Screaming Lord Sutch (hear: Lord Sutch & His Heavy Friends) would have to admit they have the thumping beat, gutty guitar, and flashing lights. Add a knack for snappy Brill Building-influenced hard rock and/or rollicking Tommy Boyce-penned tunes like "Under the Moon of Love," performed à la Mud or Showaddywaddy. Three straight knockout shots come in a row: Suzi Quatro's "Glycerine Queen," "Destroy That Boy" (whose origin is hard to trace), and the aforementioned "Jane." Another home run is "Chez Maximes," an ebullient ripper, supposedly penned by the Hollywood Brats, about a brothel. It is said the Sirens are popular in France, where singer Muffy Kroha says the fans are crazed for glam-rock partying.
See the red cat-suit and the original here.
In February, The Sirens returned with More is More, a record jacked up even higher on electric rock platforms than the premier. The cover immediately strikes as taking cues from The Runaways' Live In Japan and Slade's In Flame, two records one knows must be in their record collection.
The Sirens perform covers of glitter rock classics and obscurities. Not infrequently, they improve on the originals with the net result being their albums make the equivalent of great genre mixtapes.
"Sirens singer Muffy Kroha towers over her bandmates on the back cover of More Is More," it is written this week's Baltimore City Paper. "It's her gang and she's kitted them out in gold leather and kinky boots. In return, they furnish the best tones of their career, on their second album in, for glam-rock chestnuts many would shrink from covering. Kroha's ear for the genre is astounding, allowing her to deliver genuine evangelism on Slade's 'Rock 'n' Roll Preacher,' the vibe glommed, she informs, from an old video on YouTube."
Read the entirety, which will surely make you want to buy the album, here.
For the newsstand copy, it's paired with my review of Slade's In For a Penny, an anthology of the band's 70-and-early-80's tunes you never heard, on Shout Factory, out now.
In the forests of Pine Grove, Pennsyltucky, Slade made a huge impression by dint of an early 70's showing on In Concert, part of Friday really late night TV. By Saturday, their volcanic performance had ensured that the handful of rock fans in town all knew of them. This must have happened across the country, but surprisingly, did not result in sales. Although Slade were gang-busters in the United Kingdom, their records did not move in the States and after much earnest straining and trying they abandoned the market. Slade did, however, have a good word-of-mouth audience for their live performances.
In For a Penny and this phenom are briefly written of here.
Making use of HP Image Zone solarization for that vintage 70's blacklight poster vibe. Is that bad?
Masterplan, a German metal band, also reviewed at PaperThinWalls.Com
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