DOUBLE BLACK DIAMOND RECORDS

The New Mary Jane Dave Shouse and Scott Taylor, formerly of the mighty Grifters, have their new thing going off called The New Mary Jane (see Beatles if you don’t get the reference.) Groovy, more guitar-driven than say Those Bastard Souls, Shouse’s previous solo, and then later, band incarnation. What it sounds like Hail The Young Girls is a spacey, heavy, drum n’ guitar thang. Shouse still channels Bowie gracefully. Guitars and bass and synth effects still collide and reign supreme thankfully. The Chinese government prides itself On delivering a clear blue sky for the holidays Great new stuff form two of the greats in the indie world everyone with any sense of taste was dying to see play together again. Be ready to run right out when The New Mary Jane cd drops and if you’re lucky enough to see them play live, prepare to be blown away. Years ago my brother’s friends and I traveled three hours in the snow in Upstate New York to see The Grifters play. Joan as Police Woman’s lovely Joan Wasser was in attendance, and when the Grifters laid into Bummer from One Sock Missing (Shangri-la Records) she and we couldn’t help from bopping our Heads to a sound coming through the stacks unlike anything we’d ever heard before. Again, prepare to be blown away. Link to three mp3s at The New Mary Jane Myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=373565214

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