X27 - Your Neu Favourite Band

None of X27's members were alive in 1931, but they get their name from Marlene Dietrich's character in the 1931 film Dishonored (which starred the German actress/singer as an Austrian prostitute turned spy -- Agent X27 was the character's code name). However, the Chicago-based trio's debut album, Your Neu Favourite Band, doesn't sound anything like the cabaret and traditional pre-rock/pop that Dietrich performed; this trio's specialty is a jagged, noisy, distorted, very punk-minded style of alternative rock. Read More