When you think of Rocket, think of driving along an L.A. beach in an open-top, bright pink Cadillac. Rocket is a revolutionary concoction of fun, smiles, candy, bubblegum, and beating hearts. Coquettishness-meets-bombast, kittens-meet-rattlesnakes; Rocket is the launching pad for a new generation of pop flounce.
The all-girl band mixes 60's girl group innocence with 70s decibel-damaging boulevard beat and 80s glam wham swagger, a volatile combination that leaves one wondering what the results would be if the Shangri-Las crash landed onstage at the Starwood during an early Motley Crue gig. Starting out as a threesome of Laurens, Rocket released their first album in the summer of 2004. Evolving into a five-piece rock n roll circus in 2005, their first-ever live show was a headlining, sold-out smash at the legendary Viper Room.
Nearly two years after stealing the show with the sunburned sugarpop of their debut album Too Hot To Be Bothered, Southern Californias reigning princesses of summertime party brattiness returned with Girls With Candy Hearts, a brand new E.P. featuring seven more slices of deliciously bright n tight tunes guaranteed to jam the jukebox. All fuzz n buzz and junk shop pop production, the E.P. contains a newly-penned pair of powerpop gems in Not That Kind Of Girl and Breakup Season, plus Guitar Center Love Song, a sweet and sour ballad that sounds like the runaway teenage daughter of Pet Sounds and the Pooh Sticks.
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