THE PARANOIDS
Annies Social Club
July 1, 2007

So I'd been hearing about The Paranoids for the past year from my friend Sami. She kept telling me how much I was gonna love them, but when I asked what they were like she would always say, "I don't know man…. They just rock…  ya know… you're gonna love it." That’s all I really knew about them till I FINALLY heard their CD, and then I got it. It’s that real dark rock shit that I have always loved and always seem to be influenced by when I myself play the keyboards.

And then the other week I went to see The Paranoids live for the first time, which added a whole new level of bats-in-a-cave I hadn't picked up on just listening to the record. Damon's voice is the perfect combo of David Bowie and Peter Murphy, and the music walks the line between the glam pop sound that Bowie lovers crave/dance to and the dark goth feeling that girls and boys wearing white foundation, burgundy lipstick, and black trench coats cream over. How can you go wrong really?

Between the three of them they make quite a unique sound. The drums are super rhythmic on the toms while the guitars give the music its pop glam edge. Then comes the bass and the clouds and the dark night falls all around them. The Paranoids’ music is like a glam opera stuck in a hurricane… “I was like in the eye of it and shit and I was like whoa man don't move I don't want to fly away and then they changed to a different part and the lights went back on and the hurricane mellowed out and I was like sweet we didn't die or anything!"

So go check 'em out and feel what it's like to almost die.

[STREAM] The Paranoids: "Silicone Lifestyle"