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Arkansas Heat (2008)

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Lead Performance: The Gossip; Genre: Rock

-- Smoking even the group's excellent 2000 debut, this lives up to its title. Front-woman Beth is a butch bluesgirl to match Jack White's femme bluesboy -- a punk-schooled, lust-damp shouter from a state that's birthed many a great crotch-driven American. With a voice triangulating Janis Joplin, PJ Harvey, and Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker, she and her overdriven garage trio burn through five joints in under 10 minutes, then cap things with feedback rabble-rousing. A perfectly turned argument for the current EP revival. PUT YOUR FIST IN THE AIR ''(Take Back) the Revolution'' is the best new-punk shout-along since the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' ''Our Time.''

Posted May 17, 2002

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