Formerly known as Peggy Sue & the Pirates, this band has been around for just shy of four years releasing singles and EPs and touring with some UK indie folks like Kate Nash. A few weeks ago they released a new EP called "Lover Gone, " which you can buy from iTunes, or get in a nifty special edition CD that comes complete with a DIY shadow puppet show, whatever that means. Reportedly, they spent some time here in LA working on putting together their first full length album, release date still unreported as of this writing.
Peggy Sue is mostly two honey-voiced lassies named Katy Klaw and Rosa Rex, now joined permanently by a cute skinny boy drummer they refer to as Olly Olly Olly, most likely named such on a drinking binge, which is something the two ladies reportedly enjoy. Their songs, for the most are sweet confections of half-plucked warm guitars, the occasional uke and accordian, upbeat rim-clicking drums, and are dominated by earnestly duetted ruminative and sometimes funny vocal stokes. For whatever reason, it all comes together in a way that makes me want to use the phrase "quite nice" and mean it. Besides the fact, their sparse endeavors into blogging (http://www.peggywho.blogspot.com/) hint that they might be the kind of ladies that might get you soused then break out guitars and make you cry wino tears, then make you dance stupidly until you fall down. Everybody needs more friends like that, really.
http://www.myspace.com/peggysueandthepirates
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