“What the Stones were, what the Dandy Warhols should’ve been.”
--Magnet Magazine
"The first great band of SXSW this year." Michael Corcoran, Austin-American Statesman
"The kind of band SXSW was made for." The Austinst
Vancouver's Lions In The Street have
finally released their debut full-length album, after a four-year fight
with the now-bankrupt TVT Records. These songs (mostly recorded live to
tape at Mushroom Studios with Shawn Cole) take pre-punk rock and roll
as their starting point, but are inspired ultimately by the spirit of
gospel music: this is the kind of weary-though-hopeful,
beaten-but-not-broken record that only a band who had been through the
ringer could make.
Faces, Humble Pie/Free/Little Feat/JJ Cale, Rock and roll, before it became mere rock, Rod Stewart (Mercury era), Rolling Stones, Blasters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Everly Brothers
