Show at
Laughing Lizard Lounge (8/05)
HOT! The only way to describe two all-girl
bands in one night! Marsha Bradee rocks! Thanks to everyone who came out to the
show and to our special guest, Cece.
Show in Durham (6/05) The Femme Fete rock show in Durham, NC kicked
ass! Great show by DC's La Gorda, North Carolina's duo, The Dirty Little
Heaters and Durham's rockers, Viva La Venus. Thanks to everyone that made the
road trip south and to our old and new friends that came out to the really cool
venue, Oh La Latte.You rock!
Show at Staccato (6/05) Great show at Staccato last month. Hoover's
G-String rocks! Be sure to check them out. Great set by Kelda.
Mamapalooza Festival (5/05)
Thanks to all that came out to
the Mamapalooza festival to help benefit cancer research. Moms rock!
Digital Downloads Now Available! (4/05)
Tracks from our Bad Girls
CD are now available for digital downloading. Visit
Apple iTunes,
MusicMatch,
Rhapsody or
MusicNet and crank up The
Sirens!
Show at Old Town Theater - 955 Club
(4/05) If you missed this show,
then you missed some great rock 'n' roll! Awesome set by the Billy Coulter
Band. Be sure to check them out soon. Thanks to everyone who came out . You
ROCK!
Show at Staccato (3/05) Awesome show at Staccatto! We had a rockin' good
time with Odd Girl Out and The Guins. Thanks to everyone who came out
.
Show at Black Cat (2/05) Thanks to everyone who came out to the Black Cat
on the 11th. Our show was featured in the
Washington
Post's Sunday Source as the Music Highlight for the week! Great set by
Hello Tokyo. If you missed this show, be sure to come out and see us soon to
hear some of our latest material.
First Show of 2005 (1/05)
We'll be making a guest
appearance and playing a short set at a new bar in DC on January 28. Come on
out for a happy hour drink and meet the newest member of The Sirens. Check the
Shows page for more info. More shows to be announced
soon.
Drum roll, please! (12/04)
We've been auditioning drummers
over the past couple of months and are pleased to announce the newest addition
to The Sirens, Kaeri Johnson. We'll be rehearsing over the next month and
getting ready to play some live shows. Watch for an announcement soon about our
upcoming 2005 show dates.
WHFS Girls Kick Ass Show (11/04)
Thanks to Jenn and WHFS
for presenting the "Girls Kick Ass" show at Jaxx on November 5. Great
sets by Jezebel's Cure, Full Minute of Mercury and Dreams In Fear. Also, thanks
to everyone who came out to the show. You ROCK!
Cha Cha Cha Changes! (11/04)
Tammy, our drummer, has decided to leave
the band as of January 2005. She'll be playing the remaining shows in 2004. We
will miss her and wish her all the best. We'll be auditioning drummers over the
next couple of months in preparation for the new year and we'll be working on
recording some of our new material for our next CD so stay tuned!
Baltimore TV Show. (9/04)
We had planned on doing a live show at Big
Bubba's Bar-B-Que in Baltimore for a cable TV station, but unfortunately, the
plug was pulled! We hope to get another Baltimore show scheduled soon for our
friends in the Baltimore area. Stay tuned! Show at Jammin'Java. (8/04)
Thanks to everyone who came out to the
Summer Blowout Party! Great sets by Sister Moonshine and The Outskirts. Check
back soon for photos!
Cancellation streak!
(7/04)
We've been hit by a couple of cancellations
beyond our control recently! Our WRNR interview on July 29 was cancelled due to
a scheduling mixup at the station; and our performance at the Live on Penn
concert series on July 31 was cancelled as was the entire summer concert
series! Total bummer!
Estrofest 2004
(7/04)
One of trhe highlights of our summer was our
first show in Maryland at Estrofest 2004, an estrogen-fueled night of rock and
roll to benefit the House of Ruth emergency shelter on July 30. We played at
The Ottobar with Vestal Vermin, Secret Crush Society, Egyptian Sun Belly
Dancers and Dawn of Man. Great bands and a totally fun filled night! Be sure to
check out these bands and the belly dancers if they are in your area. You won't
be disappointed!
Show at DC9 (6/04)
It was an incredible night of rock at DC 9
on Sunday night! Awesome sets by New York bands Looker and Kid Casanova and
Baltimore's Big Daddy Chrome. Be sure to check these bands out if you missed
this show!
Show at Celebrate Fairfax
Festival (6/04)
Saturday was the perfect night for outdoor
rock 'n' roll with a cool breeze blowin' and the Bud Light flowin'! The
Sirens rocked the Festival! Thanks to everyone who came out to the
show. Hope you had a chance to catch the headliner, Pat McGee Band, while you
were there too! It was great seeing old friends and meeting new ones. Photos
coming soon.
Show with The
Misfits (5/04)
We had a blast opening for The Misfits
(Jerry Only, Dez of Black Flag and Marky Ramone of THE RAMONES) at Jaxx on the
23rd. The place was packed! If you missed this show, you missed an awesome
night of music! Great sets by Die Cheerleeder Die, Coitis and Brain Dead. Check
back soon for photos!
More Press!
(5/04)
We were featured in
The Washington Post not
once, but twice, in one week! The Sirens were featured in Marianne
Meyer's "Live!" column on Thursday, May 20 in the Virginia
Weekly section of the Post, and The Sirens were featured again as the
"Music Highlight" in the Entertainment for Northern Virginia section
of The Washington Post in the Sunday Source.
WRNR Radio
Interview (5/04)
Thanks to Damian for having us in the studio
again on April 29, 2004. Damian aired STRANGER and GET OUTTA MY FACE from our
CD "Bad Girls" and Melissa and Cindy played a live, stripped down
version of Sixteen and one of newest originals, "Lucky." Thanks to
everyone who tuned in to hear this special performance. Be sure to send Damian
an email at WRNR Radio thanking him for his
support of The Sirens and local music. Don't forget to ask him to spin a cut
from our CD too!
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The
Washington Post, May 20, 2004; Live!
By: Marianne Meyer
"Girls Wanna Rock."
It's a song on the 2003 CD "Bad Girls," from Northern
Virginia's all-female group the Sirens, but it's also quite obviously
the band's motto. These four cool chicks -- Cindy Chambers, Tammy Hooper,
Kristin Gray and Melissa Duncan -- have a no-nonsense, but still fun,
style. "We play hard, we play fast, we play loud," Chambers said in a
recent interview. . . Recently, the band played on a festival bill with lots of
other, but quieter, female musicians, including gentle folkie-type Lisa
Loeb. Guess which act did a blistering cover of a Black Sabbath
tune? "We like the diversity," Chambers laughed, and she was talking
as much about her band's wide-ranging audience as she was of the many sounds of
women in music...
Click
here for the complete article.
Cincinnati
CityBeat, January 14-20, 2004. Volume 10. Issue 10. Sound Advice: More
Concerts of Note.
By: Mike Breen
The Sirens
Friday · The Cavern (Chicks RockFest) If you were lucky
enough to score the new No Thanks! Punk Rock box-set from Rhino
Records this year from Santa, you were likely struck by how unabashedly new
bands are copping that vintage Punk/Post-Punk style. Several of the songs on
the historical collection could have been released last week and easily gotten
into the rotation on 97X or Subterranean. Oddly, there's still something
resoundingly fresh and inventive (well, "post-inventive") about new
Post-Punk revivers, even after a refresher listen to old tracks from Joy
Division, Gang of Four and The Pop Group. And if you're a
stickler for imagination, it could be worse -- bands could be ripping off
Warrant or something equally abhorrent. Washington, D.C.-based quartet,
The Sirens, stir similar emotions, crafting a sound that is
unquestionably derivative, yet still put together well enough to be effective.
There's a history lesson's worth of name-checks one could come up with in
describing the band's debut release, Bad Girls. Thanks to the band
members' individual skills and their collective no-nonsense style, listening to
Bad Girls fondly recalls multiple generations of female-fueled bands, from the
rough-shod power of The Runaways, to early-period Blondie to
smoother L7. A sense of humor only adds to the allure. On the fiery
"Girls Wanna Rock," the band distills women-in-music issues
into one bluntly effective statement, even doing some of their own
name-checking: "Patti, Debbie, Wendy O/Joni, Chrissie, where'd ya
go?" The Sirens might not be in those icons' ranks yet, but the
band's sentiment -- and music -- would surely be appreciated and respected by
each one of them. (Mike Breen)
Metal Maidens, Volume #34/December 2003.
By: Toine van Poorten
Rating: 8 points (out of 10)
THE SIRENS- Bad Girls independent
THE SIRENS are an all-female
band from Washington DC. They exist for about two years now, and they sound
like JOAN JETT ("Get Outta My Face") mixed with a touch of
early BLONDIE, THE RUNAWAYS and THE RAMONES. Punk rock,
with a melodic background. They come to party, and leave the crowd behind like
a wrong out swab. Then they leave the club, searching for more victims. That's
what 'Bad Girls' do, when they play in a band. In "Sixteen" we
strongly hear the influences of THE RUNAWAYS. Their opening sentence is
the first sentence of "Cherry Bomb", then they change the lyrics but
the influence of the band is still around. THE SIRENS are Melissa Duncan
on vocals, Cindy Chambers on guitar, Kristin Gray on bass and Tammy Hooper on
drums, and all ten songs on this thirty minute debut album are self-written. A
debut CD to be proud of and I think that their second album may become a real
blast. So watch out for THE SIRENS ladies and gentlemen, you have been
warned here! www.thesirensband.com.
gives you all the information you need to know about the band.
Music Monthly, August, 2003, Volume 20,
No. 8, Issue #227. Excerpt from The Wollan Report by Laurin Wollan
The Sirens hail from DC and
they have mastered The Misfits crunch. Cindy Chambers is on the
vocals and plays the guitar. Melissa Duncan is on the percussion and
lead vocals. Kristin Gray is all over the bass and vocals like that wart
is on Lemmy's face and Tammy Hooper is on the drums and vocals in
perfect timing. The opening track, "Settle" would cause The Donna's plane to crash immediately
if played at the appropriate volume. Bad Girls is the name of the disc and you
should get it just to have it. Four women at once is both scary and fun.
"Marlene" is awesome and resonates. Don't F*&K with this band,
even if you'd really like it. It is hard to single out tunes so I will review
the entire disc soon. It is just that damn good. I hope they hold it together,
the world could use this energy for change. Their music destroys and strokes in
simultaneity....
CDBaby.com - Review by ken
lawrence
as a rockin' blind guy from New jersey, i've
been hungry for really good rockin that's true to classic sounds but energetic
powerful and fresh and Oh yeah just a little nasty. well the sirens are it sexy
crunchy cool and yeah! yeah! yeah! these ladies are just what the doctor
ordered if your tired of the fake pop of american idol. keep rockin y'all.
CDBaby.com - Review by Philipp Oberli
Great CD! Very fresh and cool. Exactly how
this Garage Punk'n Roll should sound. Hopefully we will hear more of this all
Girl Band!
CDBaby.com - Review by Joe Becker.
Germany
BAD GIRLS is every bit as good as I expected
it to be. Catchy songs, witty lyrics, played with power, this is exactly the
kind of music I love. Rock on - Joe
CDBaby.com - Review by Seattle
Rocker
How do you spell relief from top 40
heartburn? S-I-R-E-N-S Rock and roll as it was meant to be: hard driving, angry
at times, cynical, not without irony, and, the most important ingredient:
unapologetic fun! This full length cd has some incredible original songs on it!
Check it out, then go see them live!
CDBaby.com - Review by
Beth
Awesome rock and it's all originals!! A
full-length cd with all solid rock originals, awesome. Joan Jett is definitely
going to want to jam with these chicks. These Bad Girls are great!!!!
CDBaby.com - Review by Va in
Va
The energy comes through! After hearing them
play live, this is the next best thing!
CDBaby.com - Review by
Claire
You want it, You need it... Listen to just
one song and you're hooked, but this CD doesn't stop there - one head-bobbin',
foot-stompin', rockin' song after another. Check out this disc.
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Show in Hollywood (4/04)
We're back from Hollywood, Florida where we
opened for LISA LOEB and shared the stage with some awesome performers at
Calliope Fest 3. Special thanks to our friends that made the trip to support us
and to Cece for standing in on bass for our new mom Kristin. Check back soon
for photos!
Show at Jaxx
(3/04)
Thanks to everyone who came out on March 20
to Jaxx in Springfield, Virginia. Great sets by Die Cheerleeder Die, Flat Earth
Society and Dreams Forever Drowning. Also, thanks to our special guest Cece for
sitting in on bass. Check back soon for photos!
Radio Airplay
Update (3/04)
We've been getting more airplay on the
radio. Be sure to SEND AN EMAIL to the following DJ's who have been especially
supportive of The Sirens and thanking them for their continued support: Damian
at WRNR Radio in Annapolis, MD. Featured
FATAL ATTRACTION and GIRLS WANNA ROCK on March 18. We will be appearing live on
his show on April 29. Sully at Surf 107.5 in Wilmington, NC Has been playing
MARLENE on a regular basis. Jay
Smack at WRXL in Richmond, VA. Has been playing STRANGER on a regular
basis. Do you want to hear us on a local DC area station? Then hit up
Roche at DC101 and ask him to play a cut
from The Sirens CD "Bad Girls" on his Local Lix show.
Keep
Downloading! (3/04)
We've been on the Washington Post's MP3 Top
50 Downloads Chart for several weeks now. Thanks for helping us. Help keep us
there and get us to #1 by continuing to download The Sirens mp3's. Go to
http://mp3.washingtonpost.com/bands/the_sirens.shtml
NOW!
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CDBaby.com - Review
by Rowley
The Sirens live up to their name. Attracting
attention to their song while distracting one from anything else. Their energy
is infectious, their sound is riveting.
CDBaby.com- Review by Mega Fan
The power of the guitar and drums is only
part of this all-chick band's appeal. Have you listened to the lyrics??
Awesome, even hilarious storylines with a beat that doesn't quit. You may even
find yourself singing "Evil Bitch" and "Get Outta My Face"
at work. Would that be wrong?? No way!! I'm SOLD!!
CDBaby.com- Review by Cece
Girls Wanna Rock and these babes do it! The
premier CD from The Sirens will blow your socks and/or fishnets off. Whether
you're an old punk from the 70s like me, or just discovering the best form of
rock-and-roll, this CD is for you. Many of the songs tell a story
("Marlene" for example) which makes the music more fun. This band is
also not to be missed live.
CDBaby.com - Review by Sarah
R.
If Joey Ramone were a babe... So, if the
Ramones were babes - this is what they would've sounded like...only better!
Great lyrics - great rhythm - great guitar solos. If you have anything by the
Pretenders in your collection, you MUST have this CD!
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