Dum Dum Girls
If the Ronettes or the Shangri-Las had picked up some guitars and written their own songs back in the 60s, they might have had as much badass personality as the Dum Dum Girls. The scuzzy garage-pop quartet Dee Dee, Jules, Bambi, and Sandy Vu released their debut record, I Will Be, this year, and its a knockout. Dee Dees got a strikingly dusky voice, and the records first two singles, Jail La La and Bhang Bhang (Im a Burnout), are about prison and drugs, respectively, but the fuzzy guitar textures, the girls tuneful harmonies, and the rapid pacing of the songs boost them to a jubilant level the music fairly bursts with authority and light. With Crocodiles, Past Lives, DJ Mario Orduno. ERIN K. THOMPSON
Sat., June 26, 9 p.m., 2010
