Phoenix’s Desert Trashers JOAN OF ARKANSAS Creep Under Your Skin With ‘FINAL GIRL SEMIFINALIST’
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25 April 2023
Band: JOAN ARKANSAS
Who: A power pop band that didn’t forget about the “power” part based out of scenic downtown Phoenix AZ. They formed out of sheer boredom during the pandemic in 2021. Their songs cover the gamut of topics but are often driven deep into what it’s like to be piece of a desert trash blowing through gentrified downtown Phoenix landscapes, just tryin’ to survive.
New single: FINAL GIRL SEMIFINALIST
About the song (take a deep breath): ” It started as a writing exercise on that weird pervasive feeling that most of us have in this era: “What if I’m not the star of the show, but an extra in someone else’s movie?” Once you start diving down that rabbit hole of thought, more questions get brought up: Where the hell is the script?, What happened to all those characters who once felt so important but now you can’t quite remember? It gets pretty Camus pretty damn quick. That leads to the next question: What if you are actually in a horror movie that just hasn’t introduced the monster yet? If you are, then we all know what happens to 95 percent of the featured cast in those kind of flicks. Not everyone gets to be Neve Campbell, and we have the sneaking suspicion that we are a band full of Rose McGowan.”
TUTV: JOA’s new mindfucker moves like a nasty snake on too much acid trying to
be the serpent star in a horror movie. Sick guitars, flipped-out bass/drum thwacks,
and the biting Kayla Long vocals combine for a Sturm und Drang groove that creeps
under your skin just like that ferocious snake sneaks. JOA is the finalist pick of the day. Hands down. Don’t miss this tempestuous and bloodcurdling hellraiser.
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