the locals blog

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 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,

Yep, that’s right. We’re back at Transient Sound working the follow up to “Big Picture” (June 08). It will be a 4 song EP. We don’t officially have a title for the EP yet. Check back soon for details. We’re hoping for a winter 09 release.