The Detroit Cobras are headlining a raucous triple bill August 12 at the Bell House, with Des Roar and the Baxx Sisi’s (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
The Bell House
149 Seventh St. between Second & Third Aves., Gowanus
Friday, August 12, $15, 8:00
718-643-6510
www.thebellhouseny.com
www.myspace.com/thedetroitcobras
When last we saw the Detroit Cobras (in August 2010), guitarist Mary Ramirez was doing her best not to get seasick aboard the Half Moon as the Rocks Off Concert Cruise ship teetered and tottered, making it difficult to stand up without holding on to something or someone. Meanwhile, lead singer Rachel Nagy wasn’t about to start the show until things calmed down at least a little bit. And of course, once the seas did calm ever so slightly, Nagy and Martinez, along with guitarist Joey Mazzola, bassist Jake Culkowski, and drummer Kenny Tudrick, ripped into a searing set of hard-driving old-fashioned garage rock that was anything but, well, calm. In their fifteen years together, the Cobras have released a mere four albums, the most recent being 2007’s Tied & True (Bloodshot); there’s been talk of a new album for quite a while now, and we’re hoping they’ll be featuring songs from it tonight at Maxwell’s (with the Booze) or at tomorrow’s hotly anticipated show at the Bell House, with New York City’s Des Roar, whose debut album, Mad Things (December 2009), was a potent combo of surfer rock and 1960s guitar pop and harmonies, and Brooklyn garage punk the Baxx Sisi’s (aka the Back C.C.’s), who might wear dress shirts, jackets, and ties but know how to cut it loose in two-minute bursts of raucous energy.