Ette's, The
Jul 4, 2011
Rock trio The Ettes return with a vengeance with Wicked Will, the band's fourth long player and their first through their own imprint, Fond Object, a joint venture with Krian Music Group/ Fontana on August 2nd. The album will also available as a vinyl release through long dormant indie Sympathy For the Record Industry, who put out The Ettes' 2005 debut. It's a coming of age album for the Beat Punk trio and reunites them with producer Liam Watson (Bobby Long, The Kills, White Stripes), who recorded their debut, Shake the Dust, at his London analog sound lab Toe Rag Studio.
Written on the road and in the band's adopted hometown of Nashville, Wicked Will encompasses everything you've come to expect from The Ettes and more. Up-front, fearless vocals, fuzz bass runs, primal, driving drums beats, searing guitar lines and of course, tons of black eyeliner and attitude. Female attitude. Lead singer/lyricist Coco Hames channels the best and sassiest of '60s Girl Group vixens, the leatherette clad bad girl rockers. With 13 original tracks and a sizzling, sympatico cover of Lee Hazelwood's "My Baby Cried (All Night Long)," this kaleidoscopic, album finds The Ettes delivering their most confident, varied disc to date.
Says Hames, "In general, I find this to be an album largely about women, my relationships with women and my perceptions of women; my meanest songs are about myself."
These rock nomads, who've lived in LA, NYC and now Nashville, have earned their rock stripes the hard way - on the road. They've toured with the Black Keys and Kings of Leon and spent a chunk of 2010 on tour with both the Dead Weather and the Greenhornes. Coco, Poni (Maria Silver) and Jem (Jem Cohen) have been spending their time either in their home studio in Nashville or on tours and fests here and abroad, playing their own unique brand of "Beat Punk." They've had high-profile synchs in such TV shows as NCIS Los Angeles, Sons Of Tucson, Entourage and are featured in the current national Kotex television campaign. You can also hear them in Drew Barrymore's roller derby flick, Whip It.
The Ettes' musical peers have always been among the band's biggest supporters: the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach recorded the track "No Home" with the band, released as both a 45" single and an album track on 2009's Do You Want Power. Coco also formed a band with the Reigning Sound's Greg Cartwright, The Parting Gifts, whose album Strychnine Dandelion came out in 2010 and featured Jem on bass and The Greenhornes's Patrick Keeler on drums. Pitchfork said of the collaboration of Coco and Greg: "The Parting Gifts provide a Loretta to his [Cartwright's] Conway, a Nancy to his Lee," and the Guardian UK compared Coco's vocals on the album to Ronnie Spector.
With Wicked Will, The Ettes have thrown down the rock gauntlet. After a CD release show in Nashville, the band will kick off a national headlining tour with two NYC shows beginning August 2nd.
The single, "Excuse" impacts Alternative on July 19th.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
- Jul-30 Sat Nashville, Tennessee Exit In
- Aug-02 Tue New York, NY Mercury Lounge
- Aug-03 Wed Brooklyn, NY Knitting Factory
- Aug-04 Thu Boston, MA TT The Bear's
- Aug-05 Fri Asbury Park, NJ The Saint
- Aug-06 Sat Philadelphia, PA M ROOM
- Aug-09 Tue Cleveland, OH Beachland
- Aug-10 Wed Chicago, IL Schubas
- Aug-11 Thu Detroit, MI Magic Stick - Fest
- Aug-12 Fri Milwaukee, WI Club Garibaldis
- Aug-17 Wed Boise, ID Neurolux
- Aug-18 Thu Spokane, WA A Club
- Aug-19 Fri Seattle, WA Sunset Tavern
- Aug-21 Sun Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
- Aug-23 Tue San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop
- Aug-25 Thu Los Angeles, LA Echo
- Aug-26 Fri Palm Springs, CA Pappy & Harriet's
- Aug-27 Sat Las Vegas, NV Beauty Bar
- Aug-30 Tue Austin, TX Emos
- Sep-04 Sun Long Beach, NY Quicksilver Pro NY Music Festival
