Nikki Sue – Guitar, & Vocals/Ben Hutcheon –
guitars/Anthony O’Connor – Drums/Steve Salerno - Bass
Readers of this blog will remember Nicki Sue and the Bad News from thier Couch by Couchwest session where they delighted with 'Bridge By The River' from thier EP 'Ancohored' and also featured here on Popakazooza Vol. 2 and Garden State Mix Vol. 2 about that time they were getting ready to release a new album 'Lower Places' which is available via bandcamp name your price (see below)
Couch by Couchwest Session
Nikki Sue & The Bad News are a female fronted indie rock
powerhouse with a bit of a twist. Their range of influences is wide and varied:
from Buddy Holly to Johnny Cash to Billie Holiday to Neko Case. This band
certainly give nods to their predecessors and contemporary influences while
adding their own personal twist. Setting their sound apart, Nikki Sue & The
Bad News focus on raw emotional (even at time confessional) lyrics and dynamic
vocals, twangy guitars, jazz influenced bass, and a foot tapping rhythm section.
Having lived all over the world but definitively hailing from New Jersey, Nikki
Sue’s magnetic stage presence in combination with a sea of passion behind every
song and catchy-as-all-heck riffs win over any crowd, any day, anywhere.
Lower Places
Nikki Sue currently plays both acoustic and with her full
band, Nikki Sue & The Bad News, all over the New York, Brooklyn, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania area with frequency and enthusiasm. Nikki Sue began
playing guitar in an all-female punk rock band, after which she then moved on
to a play various instruments in indie rock bands. Briefly after stints in many
bands and earning a college degree which she has no use for, Nikki Sue pushed
it all aside to live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. While on a wild
journey on the other side of the pond, she started intricately crafting folky
songs and found her destined place as a vocalist for the first time in her
musical career, however, she still needed convincing because the thought of
being in the spotlight made her weak in the knees (in a bad way). After
returning back to the US and showing her closest friends and confidants what
she had been working on, she was given the push she needed to peruse this
course further. Long time friend Tim Lastfogel talked the apprehensive Ms. Nikki
Sue into recording a quick acoustic demo, completed in one afternoon in a
walk-in closet and distributed it around the local scene. Before long, floods
of emails and calls came in requesting performances.
Since then Nikki Sue has played everywhere and anywhere from
basements, to multi-day festivals and conferences, to country BBQ hoe-downs, to
record stores, to quirky bars, to rooftops, to blues roadhouses, to wild biker
bars, to piers overlooking NYC, to fundraisers and charity events, to art
shows…. you get the point! Everyone in the band brings their own style and
influence to the table to create a genre defying sound all their own while
simultaneously bonding over their extreme love for music and obsession with
sharing it with the world.
Their debut EP 'Anchored' is available as a free download.
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