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"Nice & Easy have fearlessly opened up the doors to a multitude
of crude comments from drunken club patrons with their
and name, but who’s going to mess with a girl who has more
tattoos than most of the boys? Lead singer Virginia Elwood
has a lot of ink on her skinny arm, and her vocal performance
is just as colorful, in a very good way. Not only does Elwood manage
to work the phrase “doo run-run” into “Pinstripes and Polkadots
but she does it with a certain type of fist pumping charisma that
provides a quick look into the spirit of this band. These girls are
bristling with an unabashed energy and an eagerness to rock
that is usually remiss in the local cool set. Furthermore,
this record is also chock full of hooks, with almost every song
leaving a pleasurable scar in the ears, thanks to Elwood’s
honest melodies and the effervescent sound of a band that has
enough get-up-and-go to carry a small army.
Most of the tunes on this record feature the two-girl harmony of
Elwood and Suzanne Hinton, who is also guitarist and co-covergirl
of the Nice & Easy outfit. Hinton’s vocals mix in nicely with
Elwood, the result being kind of like a female punk Simon
and Garfunkel. “Two Barstools” has an oddly moving and comforting
Rock & Roll Suicide/Oh My Darling” feel to it that brings pause to
the record in between the slam-bang of “Eisenhower”
and the alternately swaying and whimsical “Johnny Shea Orchestra.”
band seemingly made for myspace.com, Nice & Easy are good-looking and
good-sounding as well. There’s a very homey feel to this record,
with nary a piece of excessive production. It’s almost like the two
came to your home, plugged in, and started rocking. The band’s honesty,
energy and straight up willingness to rawk out! with the world
is like a shot in the arm, or at least a buzz with a tattoo needle." (self-released)
-C.D. Di Guardia, Performermag.com
"...this is really good stuff, despite the fact that it lies light-years away
from the styles of music I would actually pay money for. The most
important difference is right here in the press-release, which slides
in the phrase "indie garage country" by way of describing the band's music.
At first, I had no idea what the fuck that meant, other than perhaps Wilco.
But this is more like The Knitters (X's countrified alter-ego) on downers,
which is actually a pretty cool thing. Grab one of these for yourself...
and hear what it sounds like to be hip without being an asshole." (Tim Emswiler)
-The Noise, September 2005
"Virginia...sure stole the show with her frontwoman wiles. Still it was kind of hard
to check out the set, as the Midway was so packed that I had to watch the
band through the room's bar mirror. But who's complaining. You can't ask
for a better welcome than a packed house hollering for more."
--RJ Grubb in Bay Windows on Nice & Easy's Nov 22nd debut at the Midway in JP.
 above photo: Roland Oulette |
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