Sounds Like Teen Spirit

Craig Ferguson is my fave of the late-night talk show hosts but I was flipping the dial last night and came across Jimmy Kimmel introducing a new 'rock' band. They looked like one of those 'alternative' bands that the young people are so crazy about these days. Normally I avoid Jimmy K. and never land there for more than 5 seconds. But this band looked promising. For one thing, they began playing and it was at least a good 45 seconds before the guy who did vocals even opened his mouth. Before that it was this real adrenalin-rushing ringing guitar intro (think about the first time you heard the Edge play the opening notes to "I Will Follow," with that band he has with that Boner guy,) and the bass player was hopping around like crazy and the drummer was just starting to get warmed up to something big .... Even when the singer opened his mouth it all fit perfectly with the rest of the band's sound. They sounded like a bit of a throwback to those T-shirted shoe-gazer bands of the late 80s - only with melodic songwriting to go along with all that buzzing guitar and feedback sound. Anyway, they're called Nine Black Elves (even tho there weren't nine of them, none of them were black and none of them had pointed ears,) and their new hit single is called I'm Satisfied. I predict big things for these kids.