Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Marissa Paternoster you're rad!


i have a new indie rock crush. she's short, she seems shy, has a page boy haircut and slouches over her mic stand.........but have you heard her play?........ because you really need to.

Marissa Paternoster is a modern day guitar goddess and frontwoman for New Jersey indie punk trio - Screaming Females. Now promoting their 5th album (I'm a little late on discovering them), they have started to get a lot more attention lately. Part J Mascis (without as much of the heavy grungy fuzz effects) and at times part stoner/sludge rock Tony Iommi-esque, her playing is loud but never annoying, speedy but never too fast, complex but not so challenging you cant headbang to it.

Then there's her voice, which is a whole nuther animal. In 5 seconds, she can go from a late 70's heavy Manchester punk accent, to deep death metal chants, to an infant "baby voice", and then to a screaming banshee. It may sound horrible, but for the most part, it works very well!

The rest of the band is killer too, but she just happens to stand out ............. a lot.

"Ugly" is their latest album. I'd rate it 3.5 stars out of 5
Highlights --> "It All Means Nothing", "Leave It All Up to Me", "Doom 84", "Help Me"

Check out this great performance/interview:
http://www.soundopinions.org/archive/2012/june.html#guestfemales
(search for episode 340)

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