god damn doo wop band

just got this release from afternoon records, who are expanding the sound of the label nicely with this disc from GDDWB. i met ross (piano/guiatr) at twin town guitars the other day the day before the band was heading out to nyc for some shows, about which he was pretty psyched, saying they hadn't had a bad show yet. bringing this kind of punk tock attitude to girl group pop from the fifties, it's hard to see how they'll ever have one. seriously, they just absolutely nail the structure of the phil spector-produced stuff, but then messy it up with a looseness and live feel that's instantly appealing. have i mentioned that the cover art is great? the three women in the band (kat, carissa and saumer) stand in floofy skirts, cut off from the waist up, in defiant stances. one of them holds a baseball bat behind her back. and then on the flip side lie all the guys from the band, beaten to a bloody pulp and laying spread out on the asphalt. i'm only making my way through this disc for the first time, so don't expect any kind of deep insight here. i'm simply trying to give you the heads up on this one.