music | eating junk, watching rubbish

listening to rubbish: what’s the use in worrying what’s on other people’s minds?

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Gee, The Black Keys are pretty good, but I’d probably like them better if they had a cool female singer instead”? I know I have. So imagine my surprise upon discovering that the universe had responded to this random thought by providing The Heartless Bastards, a band I discovered on a rerun of Austin City Limits that is perhaps best described as similar to The Black Keys, but with a cool female singer instead.

As it turns out, that comparison isn’t totally unfounded: according to Wikipedia, “[t]hey are often compared to fellow Ohioans The Black Keys.” Moreover, “[t]he band was signed to Fat Possum Records in 2004 after Patrick Carney from The Black Keys passed along a demo he received from Erika [Wennerstrom, the aforementioned singer/guitarist/piano player].”

Here are a few of my favorite tracks:

Early in the Morning