'The Q are avid, spirited, classy and all-round entertaining. Bag fills of verve, vigour and vitality and bloody brilliant music writers. They clearly value originality. Their sound, in their own words: "if Spike Milligan, Doctor Who and Keith Richards lived together and threw a house party"...couldn't have put it better myself.'
Recommended Track: 'Powder Rooms'
-(Daniel Black, New Music journalist for Room Tirteen.com)
Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, Zito was immersed in the gritty sounds of the south side that would unknowingly become the groundwork of his future in music. Like the legends before him, music has coursed through his veins from the early age of five, when he began singing and performing. It didn't take long for him to discover his instrument of choice, electric guitar, after receiving a Van Halen record for his birthday. His education and journey were just starting - little did he know he would find himself among such legends at a local guitar shop just out of high school.
Dr Vampire are a 3-piece largely instrumental surf/garage/rockabilly band based in South London. The band consists of Chris (Guitar/Organ/Vocals), Danny (Bass/Vocals), and Nick (Drums).
The Silents is a four-piece band from Perth, Western Australia. Benjamin Stowe and Jamie Terry began writing and recording music heavily influenced by early sixties psychedelic and beat music in the second half of 2002. In September 2003, Stowe watched friend Sam Ford
There are at least two Wrecks out there. 1.) Wrecks is a stoner rock/punk band from Manchester, UK, featuring Carol Hodge and Pete Wilson from Steve Ignorant's Last Supper. 2.) Wrecks is an experimental electronic duo from Rio Dell California. Wrecks consists of Quade Ross (Antartica, Creepy Marbles) and TOd Shelton (All the way Alive, Vaginia Ludwigia). 3.) A female fronted punk band that appeared on the 'Not So Quiet on the Western Front' compilation released on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label in 1982 .
Faris Badwan, frontman for UK indie rockers The Horrors, has a new project: Cat's Eyes, a duo with the Canadian opera soprano and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Zeffira. The group specializes in a glassy, symphonic take on girl-group pop, and they played their first show in December in a pretty unusual place: St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, during an afternoon mass "attended by seven high-ranking cardinals," according to a press release. Webpage: http://www.catseyesmusic.com/
There are at least three bands called the Staggers: A group of wild and young 60s garage surf trash maniacs from Graz/Austria. They released their first official album "Teenage Trash Insanity" in 2007 on the German "Wohnzimmer Records". A band from Columbus, OH that sounds like a cross between the Melvins and Man or Astroman. They are known for hit songs like "Dick Buttdick" and "Pig fucker." And a punk band from Dallas, Texas. Known as Riot Squad up until 1998.
