She is the Knot Mess

(photo from Chris Frump's Flickr)

Friday at the end of a weirdworkweek.  What's that?  You could use another Best Favorite Song of 2007?  One that puts the "awesome" back in "fucking awesome?"  Count yourself lucky that Gimme Tinnitus reminded me about a certain tight trio from the wilds of Rutgersville.

New Brunswick, New Jersey's Screaming Females (myspace) aren't afraid to piss you off, might just be good enough to get away with it.  Singer-guitarist Marissa P. interrupts punk and post- tunes with thick bluesy rawk solos; sometimes she'll just shred.  Her vocals don't go down easy, braying that affected riot grrrl warble way more than's necessary.

"Boyfriend" picks up the tab, pees sitting down.  The chorus - "Is that your boyfriend?  Is that your girlfriend?  With all this nonsense/Prevent confusion" - wags a classic gender-bent punk bark before relenting to troubled teen howl.  "While you sit on the fence I will burn in hell."

Screaming Females - Boyfriend (mp3) (buy)

Holy jeez that's good.  Best Favorite!  2007!

My showgoing ways got up and went, this year, so I managed to miss these guys every time they played.  Joly from Punkcast didn't, though, and has video from their July Cake Shop gig.

The Females' CD, What if Someone is Watching Their TV, is available through their myspace.  The band also keeps a blog.

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Speaking of not going out, New Year's Eve is a bad time of the year for us un-drinkers.  But this annum the options are tempting.  The night's as pregnant with possibilities as an underage Nickelodeon starlet.

If you have the stamina, the cash, and a change of clothes, you could probably catch two of the world's best live acts back-to-back:  Gogol Bordello's up at Terminal 5 (tix) - their last US show for a while, Eugene Hutz told the Voice - and Les Savy Fav's got the late slot at Bowery (tix).  If you want to do some good while you drink, the charity-loving bloggers at After the Jump have The Dirty Projectors and a bunch of other bands at the Knitting Factory (tix).

But if you're planning to drink so much that you won't remember what you did, you might as well go see a bunch of guys who're going to do the same:  Mr. Brownstone, the World's Drunkest Guns n' Roses Tribute Band, is at The Horribly Named Venue Where Northsix Used to Be (tix).

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