DJ Meow Mix, one of the hosts of Jelly Jive
airing Friday's 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., saw Summer Twins and Blank Tapes at the Constellation Room in Santa Ana last Wednesday. Her show review and photos are
below. For more from DJ Meow Mix visit http://jellyjiveradio.tumblr.com/.
Summer Twins
I took a
nice break during the week by seeing The Summer Twins on Wednesday night at the
Constellation Room in Santa Ana. Summer Twins are two cute sisters that sing
dreamy harmonies in 50’s inspired rock n roll songs. Just think of a modern
girl version of the Everly Brothers – they even cover “All I Have to do is
Dream,” which was just released on their new EP Forget Me. The title song of that EP is definitely one of my
favorite songs by them, so you could imagine how happy I was when they played
it as the last song of the set. Another
one of my favorites of the night was “I Will Love You” which they faded into
and made a sort of medley out of the previous song. It was awesome and
impossibly hard not to dance to! They are a great band to see live, and luckily
they have an LA residency coming up in June where they play every Monday night
at the Bootleg Bar, so there are plenty more opportunities to see them. DJ Cow
in a Shoe Store and I built up the courage to talk to them afterwards and they
were very nice and approachable. We talked about having them come into KUCI to
play a live set on Jelly Jive so we hope to have that happen in the future.
They also gave us a free copy of their new EP so get ready to hear more of that
on our show!
Surprisingly
Summer Twins were not headlining the concert, they actually went on first out
of four bands. The main attraction was The Blank Tapes who put on quite a show
themselves. Their style is pretty different from the Summer Twins – a lot more
folky which is why I was kind of surprised they played together. The lead
singer shredded on the guitar and had some impressive solos, while the drummer
played on two floor toms instead of a full drum kit. Overall it was a unique
and memorable show.
Blank Tapes
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