Though they were Akron/Family’s opening act, the queenly quartet that is Warpaint played to a crowd of their own hard-won loyal subjects last Wednesday at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Evidence of this was the crust of barely legal teenage boys adhering to the front of the stage like barnacles hoping against hope that their favorite fairytale rock princesses would perform in skirts. I had to elbow a few of those suckers aside with an efficient point to my press pass and a “seriously don’t make me tell them you’re I.D. is a fake” look in order to snap pictures. Skirts were not worn but bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg and drummer Stella Mozgawa wore fetching red onsie pajama numbers (trés risqué… you know – if you’re Mormon).
All kidding aside, Lindberg and Mozgawa definitely became a team laying down a strong rhythm track on to which Theresa Wayman and Emily Kokal painted vivid vocals and ambient guitar riffs. Mozgawa, a nascent addition to the band, made a strong impression adding a stiffness to their sound that wasn’t there before. What with their banging rhythm section and cultivated ethereal mystic wiccan vibe they’re well on their way to becoming the female analog of Led Zeppelin. I got a chance to chat with the girls after their set and opined them of my Zeppelin theory and they like that. And then I stated that they had an occultist vibe and asked if that was intentional and I got silence. And then I asked if they had pentagram tattoos at which point I was escorted to the curb in a gentle but firm headlock by Mozgawa. After a while, I was permitted to return and I asked Mozgawa if they were all friends to which she replied “We’d have to be; we’re three females traveling around in a van.”
So there you have it; the Warpaint girls were super cool (shocker) of the home-grown L.A. variety. However, it’s worth noting that Wayman made mention of possibly relocating the band to Brooklyn. I guess we shall just have to wait and see about that. In the meantime, enjoy my pics from the show and check out the trailer for Theresa Wayman’s major motion picture debut “Pete Smalls Is Dead.”
ALEXANDRA: chicks dig me.
