will be on every best-of-2007 list in just a couple of months, played an acoustic set for WOXY's Lounge Act yesterday. It should be up for download on WOXY.com very soon. Meanwhile, here is a sample.
is energetic pop magic with classic soul and jazz accents, but more importantly, you just can't listen to the album without singing along with Laura Burhenn's pitch perfection whilst air drumming. The songs from the Demos From Dance Place EP have more muscle on the album, with the guitar amped up a notch and more frequently soloed, and the drums attacking at every opportunity. Plus, there's this new treat, a song in which John Davis goes berserk on the drums, and what might be a guitar nod to Flock of Seagulls. A new empire in rags
The truth in one free afternoon
Under your wheels, the fits and starts
The time to dabble in the arts
To tease the packs of dogs in charge
But kid it's all wasted on me
Yesterday they played an enthralling short set on KEXP. 
Chicha started out in the late 60’s, in the oil-boom cities of the Peruvian Amazon. Cumbias Amazonicas, as they were first known, were loosely inspired by Colombian cumbias but incorporated the distinctive pentatonic scales of Andean melodies, some Cuban guajiras, and the psychedelic sounds of surf guitars, wah-wah pedals, farfisa organs and moog synthesizers.
Chicha, which is named after a corn-based liquor favored by the Incas, quickly spread to Lima. It became the music of choice of the mostly indigenous new migrant population – mixing even further with rock, Andean folklore and Peruvian creole music.
All that stuff about me being sorry
All the bikes you rode into the lake
All the letters I threw into the dumpster
All the houses flattened in the wake
All the kites we flew above the forest
All the haunted spirits coming clean
Sit down and listen as they tell you the truth:
That it's really your guts that let you breathe
It's really your guts that let you breathe
for 7 - 12 bucks.
which is one of the best books I've read, ever, has saved me from doing too much of that. 
It's a compilation of rare kid soul & funk from the early 70's. What I hear in these young voices is the belief that they're going to be the next Jackson 5, but on their own terms, the faith that their television faces will be coming into the living rooms of Americans everywhere, their songs played on radio stations worldwide. In other words, the knowledge that real soon, everything is going to be better. Wonder where they are now.
