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The Locals recorded a version of one of our favorite songs from the classic holiday Rankin Bass movies: The Heat Miser song (I’m Mr Green Christmas) from “The Year Without a Santa Claus”. A great addition to your holiday party song mixes.
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Thanks to Jay Ziegler from Consequence of Sound for the write up on his blog!
“Kicking off the sonic jaunt within the bellows of Subterranean, Chicago female power trio The Locals wasted no time getting the crowd going. Frontwoman Yvonne Doll rollicked around stage with her mighty Gibson SG and banged out fuzzy guitar chords with great precision. Drips of power pop and early grunge oozed from the floorboards of these girls, and images of PJ Harvey and Cheap Trick immediately came to mind. “Elo’ kiddies” is right, and these rockettes felt right at home. Bassist Christy Nunes thrashed around onstage and carried the thunder on her back, right in sync with Doll’s elegant guitar work. It’s a known fact that the Midwest is full of pop-laden bands and much like their Chicago contemporaries The Smoking Popes, The Locals brought a great pop-grunge icebreaker to a heartwarming show and told everyone to stick around for Verona Red.”
http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/01/12/verona-red-send-up-a-heat-wave-at-subterranean-19/

The Locals are a band out of Chicago, Illinois that have a nice crossover of The Pretenders and No Doubt, minus the ska. Yes, they are female fronted and a very powerful woman at that. And you know, Yvonne Doll and her little group have some pretty catchy songs here on their fourth full-length album, Big Picture. You can tell that Yvonne is a veteran vocalist with quite a powerful set of lungs.
The album opens with their lead single, called “Tidal Wave” and it sounds like Gwen Stefani singing for Pearl Jam. . One of the more outstanding tracks is the driving “Together Alone”. The album ends with the simply stated “Gone”, a great representative song of the bands pop/rock style….

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• Early audition, then back to the recording studio (no one should have to bring the rock this early in the am) #
• blog chatter about The Locals’ KISS cover http://bit.ly/PkxMX #
• Hey Indianapolis fans, The Locals will be at the Melody Inn in January! http://bit.ly/3O3dXo #

The KISS tribute cd (Chicago bands doing KISS songs) is still in production, but you can get our version of “Shout it out loud” right here:
The Locals version of ‘Shout it out loud’ »
Look for the KISS tribute to be released really soon! We’ll keep you posted

• going to see The Pixies on nov20 and playing for you lovelies on Nov 21 http://bit.ly/9LkCh #
• R working on a new tune #

• Gonna work on a new cover… What do u all want to hear?? #
• listening to “PJ Harvey - The Mess We're In” ? http://blip.fm/~ermdw #

The Locals are totally excited to be playing at Girls Rock Chicago. . It’s a rock camp for girls 9 -16. What’s cooler than that? Um nothing. You can donate to this great program here girlsrockchicago.org.
We’ll be doing a 30 min set for the campers.

The Locals are going to be a part the Chicago bands tribute to KISS. Kirk and our producer, Steve Gillis , are a very very very very excited. LOL! This KISS must be deeply embedded into that “y” chromosome. I mean, Christy and I are happy to be a part of this, but Steve and Kirk are inches away from getting out the face paint.
So what song are we doing? Well, that you’ll have to wait for….check back soon.

Facebook has finally gotten around to letting users and fan pages have a name urls. Check it out, The Locals are at:
http://facebook.com/thelocals,