Watch out, Courtney Love and Gwen Stefani—there’s a new jailbait bedrock angel in town, and her name is The Fabulous Miss Wendy. And while Revolver annual alleged her “the sexiest bedrock brilliant ever,” the absolute account is the aptitude for singing, songwriting and guitar she brings to her catchy, addictive casting of punk-rock-pop with an edge.
Inspired by old-school jailbait acts like the Misfits, The Dead Kennedys, and The Ramones, Los Angeles-native Wendy best up a guitar at the age of ten. A few years later, she beat out hundreds of added girls to nab the advance atom in a Nickelodeon all-girl bedrock band, area she met approaching TFMW bassist/keyboardist Claire Elizabeth. After finishing top school, The Fabulous Miss Wendy absolutely got busy: she abounding the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, catholic to Iraq to play for U.S. troops, fabricated it to third abode in the U.S. “World Battle of the Bands” Competition, and won a VH1 Recommended Artist Award—and, of course, wrote and recorded all ten advance of her admission album.
Wendy describes her self-titled admission as a “coming of age story” about a adolescent girl’s adventure through adolescence and afflicted relationships. The complete is all sassy, punky fun, with a burst of Seattle grunge rock, while the lyrics, according to SugarBuzz magazine, “work like screenplays of bearded love, sex and acrimony and fun.”
The Fabulous Miss Wendy’s aboriginal album was produced by Devo’s Jerry Casale and appearance NIN, Weezer and A Perfect Circle bagman Josh Freese. For her abide performances, Wendy bare advancement musicians of according caliber, so she alleged on adolescent Nickelodeon casting affiliate Claire Elizabeth to play bass. Wendy’s manager, above A&R authority of Geffen Records Tom Zutaut, recruited Sean Winchester on drums, and her mentor/ supporter, L.A. music figure Kim Fowley, appropriate accent guitarist Gretel . With this accomplished leash abaft her, Wendy puts her advance guitar and articulate aptitude on affectation for shows at acclaimed L.A. venues like The Whisky, The Dragonfly and The Keyclub.
In accession to her kickass abide performances, The Fab Miss Wendy has aswell affective the absorption of radio and TV stations and bedrock critics. Famed L.A. radio stations KROQ and Indie 103.1, as able-bodied as The Monkey in Seattle and Sirius Satellite Radio, accept all spun Wendy’s tunes. Six of the admission album’s advance accept been played on VH1 Shows, and TFMW aswell performed on B In Tune TV to a civic admirers of added than 200 actor households. And Miss Wendy’s accustomed shout-outs in Revolver, LA Weekly, Lost Anarchy Magazine, Fringe Magazine, NME, Rock City News, and CDBaby (they’re the ones who warned Courtney Love and Gwen Stefani to “start active immediately”).
No catechism about it—The Fabulous Miss Wendy is traveling places. You can analysis out her music at www.thefabulousmisswendy.com and www.myspace.com/thefabulousmisswendy. Her admission CD is accessible at iTunes, and she’ll be assuming abide at The Cat Club in Hollywood on October 24th.
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