Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Girl Tones

One Liner: A White Stripes inspired rock duo of sisters jamming out
Wikipedia Genre: no Wikipedia, but hard rock, blues rock
Home: Nashville (via Kentucky)

Poster Position: Last Quarter - Line 23

Day: Friday
Weekend Two Only.

Thoughts:  Kind of a less aggressive-feeling Wet Leg.  Not very many songs, so it is not that easy to get a full read on them, but pretty much whenever a band has fuzzed out guitars and covers classic Radiohead, I am probably on board.

Two sisters, Kenzie and Laila, are classically trained musicians who switched from cello and piano to guitar and drums and found a way for Brad Schultz of Cage the Elephant to fall in love with their action and agree to produce their tunes.  Nashville is not where I expected them to be from, but another article claims Bowling Green, Kentucky.  Maybe that is why Cage is on board with them, repping the same sweet-ass Kentucky hollers.  Kenzie was apparently a sophomore at Bowling Green when she grabbed a guitar and recruited her little sister to join the jam.  Kenzie described it as a punkish blues rock that was inspired by the White Stripes and the Riot Grrrl movement of the '90s.  Sounds about right.  Strangely, their last name is Crowe, and they were in a family band with their mom, just like the Crowe Boys who are also on this poster.  What is up with Crowes on this year's poster who are not Black or Counting?

No album.  Four singles starting in 2024 and then a 2025 EP called Blame that just has those four singles on it with one new tune.  So, you really only get five songs and one is Radiohead.  "I Know You Know" is the top track.  156k streams.

Really pretty, and then with a little guitar crunch at the end.  I'll give you one that trends more to the anger end of the spectrum next.  This is "Again," with 145k streams.
Well, that video is unsettling.  Dig the building groove and fuzz of the tune though.  I'd absolutely go check this out, even though it feels like the kind of band who will get the 1pm on Friday treatment with a crowd of 45.


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