Spring Break
Austin-based band still under labels' radars
Your new favorite band
Issue date: 2/14/08 Section: Out & About
If a sugar high were bittersweet, punks would be skanking on the blank canvas wearing (and listening to) White Denim. Nestled somewhere between psychedelia and straight up punk prowess, this re-imagined spasmodic power trio sometimes sounds like The Stooges while axe-ripping á la Hendrix on the other hand.
Sounding like a contemporary and very caffeinated Black Lips at a basement party, White Denim boasts the scratchy aesthetics of The White Stripes and The Black Keys with periodic punk rock tempos, often off-kilter rhythms and a high party-in-the-garage kind of energy with group choruses and shout-out-loud phrases from song to song.
At the moment, the band remains unsigned after releasing a series of EPs since its start, but it's set to break at this year's South by Southwest conference, set right in the group's hometown of Austin. White Denim brings an approachable yet esoteric edge to the sowing seeds of indie-pop in 2008 and the potential is looking nothing short of promising.
- Sami Promisloff
Sounding like a contemporary and very caffeinated Black Lips at a basement party, White Denim boasts the scratchy aesthetics of The White Stripes and The Black Keys with periodic punk rock tempos, often off-kilter rhythms and a high party-in-the-garage kind of energy with group choruses and shout-out-loud phrases from song to song.
At the moment, the band remains unsigned after releasing a series of EPs since its start, but it's set to break at this year's South by Southwest conference, set right in the group's hometown of Austin. White Denim brings an approachable yet esoteric edge to the sowing seeds of indie-pop in 2008 and the potential is looking nothing short of promising.
- Sami Promisloff
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