Sounds Like: You wandered into the flat of some hipster college kids who've stolen a black-and-white copier and have decided to revive the zine scene.
RIYL: Sleater Kinney, The Chills, Elastica, cut-and-paste with left-handed scissors.
Quick Review: Hot Cha Cha's EP, Rifle, I Knew You When You Were Just a Pistol, begins like many grrrrl rock indie punklettes begin, with big guitar, big drums, and tommy gun staccato vocals. Yet it's the direction they take the next three tracks that makes Hot Cha Cha worth watching. They sing in French. They sing in German. They're from the Midwest. Go figure. But their talent is most evident by the third song, "It's Hard to be a White Boy in 1992." Mirroring the grammatically jarring tense shift of the title, the song bounces from contemporary indie pop to meandering riffs more reminiscent of alt-rockers in the previous decade like Pavement and Yo La Tengo.
Check out the video, and don't pass up a chance to see them if they play nearby--I hear their live shows are not to be missed.
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How ya been, James?
Love,
Dave
Drew