Juliette Lewis was covered in sweat by the time she finished her first song at East London’s Hoxton Bar and Grill, and dove off-stage half-way through the second. Her band (drums, two guitars and bass) is super-tight, but almost too tight. The group is a well-oiled machine that sticks to the script and plays polished songs designed to showcase Lewis, who wastes no notes, no syllables and no breaths. The band is more 1980s than 2000s, more mainstream than alternative, and more straight-forward than ironic. They’re a rock band from Los Angeles, more geared for the Sunset Strip than the hipster enclave of Silverlake. Lewis’s glam-rock “Wonder Woman” nickname isn’t far off the mark.
The full blog post is at INTELLIGENT LIFE
