GIRL IN A COMA: I KNOW, I KNOW, IT’S SERIOUS

[defrog]

I went to buy the new Sonic Youth album last night, and while prowling about the listening stations, I came across a Texas band called Girl In A Coma, whose second album is out now.

I have to say I’m intrigued. It’s not exactly groundbreaking, but not too many people can borrow from The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney and (I think) Steve Earle and actually make it sound like anything.

Anyway, Morrissey is impressed.

So is Joan Jett. She and Kenny Laguna saw them play and signed them to Blackheart Records on the spot.

You can listen to the album on MySpace, but they don’t have anything embeddable from it yet. So here’s a single from their first album.

Glorious results of a misspent youth,

This is dF