Lipstick Conspiracy
San Francisco, California, United States | SELF
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Press
San Francisco's favorite trans band...plotting to overthrow the domain of power pop with their distinctive brand of ambiguity. - SF Bay Guardian
Power pop, with "ambitious harmonies backed by delightfully simple guitar riffs, punchy, rhyme-induced lyrics and a whole lot of ego." - The San Francisco Observer
"...fast pop guitars and bubblegum hooks... ...less garage pop and more radio from two decades ago... ...air-guitar fantasy made real." - Planet Out
"harmony-laden power pop songs with infectious hooks like you might have heard while trolling the dial for Top 40 songs back in the early 80s." - San Francisco Bay Guardian
"...sing-along, dance-along 80s hooks with a touch of irony over every word." - Portland JustOut
"...no one prepared you for Lipstick Conspiracy...These are the girls your mother warned you about...an extraordinary experience." - CURVE magazine
"TG rockband on the come-up."
- KQED
"[w]icked textures...huge guitar sounds...monstrous tones..." - Guitar Player Magazine
Discography
"A Perfect Alibi" - 2006 (12 song full length)
"Don't Tell a Soul" - 2004 (5 song EP)
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Bio
Lipstick Conspiracy has managed to defy all description, and continually confounds attempts to pigeon-hole their sound. As early as 2004, the band was described as "The B-52s meet the Police" and "The Jesus Mary Chain with Girl Scout harmonies," but neither of these descriptions truly captures their genre-blending styles, atmospheric guitar-work, oblique sensibilities, and lush harmonies. Heavy-handed descriptions toss around terms like "power pop," and invoke references to the classic "girl band sound of the 80s" and "glammy" with equal interchangeability. The best descriptions to date include mention of the girls' performance and presence: "Josie and the Pussycats...all grown up" (East Bay Express), "an extraordinary experience...the girls your mother warned you about" (CURVE magazine), "monstrous tones" (Guitar Player magazine), as well as their social agenda and music. The SF Bay Guardian blew their cover in 2004 naming them Best Girl Band, and the girls have not looked back since. An international following, complete with a coterie of imitators, is compelling testimony to this award-winning band's success.
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