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| Wussy Featured in Village Voice & on NPR's Fresh Air FRESH AIR (NPR) Feature Monday June 22nd 2009 Ken Tucker "You can listen to Wussy as a concept album propelled forward by the band's buzz saw guitar riffs and tight little rhythm section. Just as Cleaver and Walker write most of the songs and either alternate lead vocals or sing them in harmony, the album itself becomes a short story.." VILLAGE VOICE: On the Cheerfully Combative Midwestern Noise-Pop of Wussy - The odd couple soldiers on By Rob Harvilla, Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 |
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| "The heavily tattooed lovebirds of prey offer ragged serenades terrible and true at the Cake Shop, easily the closest thing to a dank Ohio basement venue on the Lower East Side, Lisa having apparently mellowed and cheered up considerably, bouncing up and down, her head nearly scraping the acoustic foam and Christmas lights affixed to the ceiling. Chuck, hirsute and bespectacled and gruff, complaining that his protruding gut is slowly turning his guitar into a "reverse dobro," is markedly less exuberant; he perfectly fits the profile of a guy named Chuck who used to be in a band named the Ass Ponys. Lisa's enthusiasm is hilariously incongruous; you sometimes get the feeling she's been kidnapped by a grouchy bar band and is just rolling with it." | |||||||||||
SOME NEW PRESS FROM... Rolling Stone New Music Report "There's not a weak track on this album" PopMatters "Midwestern alt-country oddballs stay weird, bleak, funny." Chicago Reader "stingingly poignant" Crawdaddy "This band has one more interesting thing to say about romance and Ohio with each passing note."  (8/10) "Messy, seething passions in all their juicy splendor."Robert Christgau's Consumer Guide Grade A: "This is as brutal a relationship album as Richard & Linda Thompson's 'Shoot Out the Lights.'" |
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| NEW RELEASES Wussy's newest self-titled record is now available from Shake It Records. You can hear some of the new songs on our myspace page. Summer's Kiss Records will be releasing 'A Tribute to the Afghan Whigs' on June 23, 2009. Wussy did a Whigs cover a couple of years back that is featured on this comp. |
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INTERVIEWS, FEATURES, & MORE New Wussy video from Lightborne An acoustic performance of "Maglite" recorded in a 70's camper. Check it out! WUSSY MAKES MAGNET A MIX TAPE - 5/13/09 - includes full audio of mix tape and a free download of "Muscle Cars" 'The Music Should Speak for Itself' - Cincinnati CityBeat May 6, 2009 Female musicians discuss gender, rock & roll and the local music scene feat. Wussy's Consummate Top Ten - Caught in the Carousel May 5, 2009 Alex Green interviews Chuck and Lisa about the new record and the band offers up their consummate top ten. The subject? Top Ten Actors To Cast In The Live Action King Of The Hill, If There Ever Was One. |
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Rolling Stone  "Cleaver and Walker show indieland how to write songs, think about God and get together in the back of a van." SPIN "Haunting and exalting...leavening darkly romantic dysfunction with a little good old-fashioned sex appeal." Village Voice - Grade A "11 three-minute songs, all about perfect. An ideal partnership - vocally and lyrically." |
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| Blender "An unlikely seeming pair. They fit perfectly." |
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