Jaffa Recommends - The Dead Betties
This New York trio is hard to define in any sense. Musically, they rival the frenzy of bands ranging anywhere from The Subways to The Bad Brains. Their style is a distortion of what you may find in grunge or any near-no wave bands. And over it all, you have a lyricist who’s complex imagery and hybrid metaphors could quite possibly rival that of Cedric Bixler-Zavala from The Mars Volta.
All in all it makes for an intense cacophony of unbridled anguish and sentiment. A mashed up electric sex which makes you go back for seconds and then some.
I caught a show of theirs about a year ago when they stopped for a show in some little house/club in Hollyweird. The club was an interesting experience in itself, being a place of residence as well as a library and club all at once. They even had an old VW bus inside that doubled as a bar. Pretty bad ass.
But more importantly, The Dead Betties put on an amazing show. Even in front of a small crowd of people, some of whom probably never heard of them, they easily captivated the whole of us. I was shaken to the very core by the performance they gave. Total emotion going into their instruments and through the mic, only to have everything end up flying around the stage in a show of passion and art rarely seen so earnest.
This is a band easy to fall in love with, if you ask me.
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