Pitchfork

[Posted Wednesday, October 1st, 2003 02:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Detroit's hottest garage rockers who aren't White or Striped, The Von Bondies, have signed with Sire/Warner Bros. to release their second full-length, Pawn Shoppe Heart, according to a report from Business Wire. Actually, it'll be their third if you count their live recording Raw and Rare, or their fourth if you count their long-lost gangsta rap record, entitled The Von Bondies Posse, which Jason Stollsteimer recorded on a busted karaoke machine during his brief yet intense obsession with the music of the Wu-Tang Clan in the late '90s-- although I'm not sure that one actually exists outside of a really fucked up dream I had.

The album is slated for release in 2004 and is being produced by legendary knob-twister Jerry Harrison, who has been associated with bands you may have heard of such as Talking Heads (for whom he played guitar) and the Modern Lovers. Tracklist:

01 No Regrets
02 Broken Man
03 C'mon C'mon
04 Tell Me What You See
05 Been Swank
06 Mairead
07 Not That Social
08 Crawl Through the Darkness
09 The Fever
10 I've Got the Right of Way
11 Love is Like a Drug
12 Pawn Shoppe Heart

The Von Bondies formed in 2000 in their hometown of the Motor City, with their two chicks and two dudes line-up, and by having their debut, Lack of Communication, produced by the Great White One himself (who's been rumored to be the band's older brother/roommate/husband/wealthy benefactor), they're like the White Stripes squared! Their debut was followed by live document/ Peel Session Raw and Rare on Dim Mak records, which many believed captured their essence more accurately than their studio effort: their distillation of blues and garage rock, The Animals and MC5 exploded messily from the platter like an unstifled sneeze and got nearly everyone's attention. May their union with Sire be long, fruitful and not too heavily recouped.