Tank and the Bangas with Ill Doots and Fancy Pants
 

by Noah Bonaparte Pais Aside from providing New Orleans with a postcard weekend by the water, May's Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo was notable for the emergence of two larger-than-life New Orleans frontwomen and their even bigger bands, Daria & the Hip Drops and Tank and the Bangas. The latter's self-released debut Think Tank is an open-mic night that never closes: spoken-word soliloquies bleeding into soul smorgasbords; sprawling, searching metaphors finding the answers to love's mysteries in daredevil plunges ("Rollercoasters," "Themeparks") and shopping lists ("Boxes and Squares," "WalMart").? [ Read more ]

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