Wednesday, December 10, 2008
These guys make all those dance rock bands who think jumping around to the beat with those stupid grins on their faces look like fucking idiots.
It's taken almost half a year to get over the initial shock of discovering We Are the World. Nearly six months of traveling to the darkest of intimate performance spaces to the most underground gay bars in town. And though we are still at a loss as to how to describe this band to our four readers, we do think it's time to declare our love for them. For not only does Los Angeles love We Are the World, we're also hereby confirming them as the best new band of the year.
With a show that rivals anything we've seen on Broadway, the Vegas Strip, and perhaps even the most perverse clubs in Bangkok, We Are the World is by far one of the most visually stunning and musically provocative groups to come out of Los Angeles in years. While their Cirque du So'electro burlesque-apade routines might not be anything new to L.A.'s hip and über-chic dance scene elite, those kids on main street who think music has become a one-dimensional art form better brace themselves.
Singer Megan Gold and programmer/percussionist Robbie Williamson unleash an industrial darkwave of gritty operatic movements while the god and goddess known as Sir Ryan Heffington and Ms. Nina McNeely slither and stomp through some seductively raw dance floor theatrics. And even as overwrought and wordy as that might read, that really doesn't even come close to describing how breathtaking their performances can be. All we can say is that Los Angeles has been waiting a long time for a band like this and the day is finally here.
We Are the World... indeed.
Photo by Jeaneen Lund. Photos from the last few months here. We Are the World opens for CSS at Echoplex on 12/11.
We Are the World - "Clay Stones" (MP3) Limited time download
We Are the World - "Why Can't I Be You" (The Cure cover off the new album "Perfect As Cats: A Tribute to The Cure", available through Manimal Vinyl) (MP3) Limited time download
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