Take the Ramones, replace them with a sweet sounding blond haired beauty, give them just drums and a guitar, sprinkle on some grunge and you have Sleepy Kitty.
The band which was originally formed by the drummer from Harvey Danger, Evan Sult, and Paige Brubeck, a member of the all-girl band Stiletto Attack as a way to make weirdo music that their bands wouldn’t play, Sleepy Kitty has built a large buzz, “especially after their recent feature on NPR Music,” according to Black Book.
Now off of the St. Louis based band’s sophomore album Project Room, Sleepy Kitty has dropped their video for “Hold Yr Ground”, which is part of a blossoming graphics and art project also called Poject Room.
The video for “Hold Yr Ground” is made up of distorted performance shots from actual shows, inside the studio, in front of a jukebox and inside a high school gym, spliced between grainy effects covered street shots, driving in a car, the band just sitting around until the very end when Sleepy Kitty final says, “Hold Yr Ground’, and flashes a shot of the drummer staring at a picture of a gun.
The song which accompanies the video starts off with a shot out to whoever stole “the dodge caravan on June 11th, 2010,” and later lets you know she was 23 when she moved to St. Louis, and now she’s 26.
The two combine forces on all of their projects from music, rock posters, album artwork, to fine art, all of which is done at a studio space they call, “art castle.”
So far the band has two EP’s, and two LP’s including their 2011 debut, Infinity City.
To give you an example of where their strange influences come from, Sleepy Kitty has played along such artists as Chuck Berry, Best Coast, Brody Dalle, JEFF The Brotherhood, Deerhoof, Dresden Dolls,and Allah-Las, as well asLouFest and Middle Of The Map Fest for the last three years.
To kick off their latest album release, Sleepy Kitty made “Lazer Kitty”, two sold-out lazer shows at the St. Louis Planetarium, Choreographed to Project Room.
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