Introducing Athens' Newest Talent

Jan 7, 2009

Beatrix Kiddo

Post-punk/Relgious/Visual

Lineup: Chris Burgin, Josh Jordan, Wes Kyatt and Taylor Northern.
Former members of: Audio Mischief and Marvelous Rejections.
Influences: Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Fleet Foxes, Martin Scorcese.

Guitarist Taylor Northern describes his band as sounding like "Incubus and At the Drive-In thrown into a cosmic blender filled with lime, Red Bull and Jagermeister" which is surprisingly more accurate than the post-punk label he offers initially. High-energy alternative guitar lines jangle and rock behind schizophrenic vocals that take turns cooing melodically and howling with satanic fury. It's impossible to label Beatrix Kiddo accurately because the band isn't quite sure what it wants to sound like itself. First you hear the melancholy balladry of "The Sonnet," and then you're shaken by the opening scream of "Zissou" followed by the sexed-up classic-rock riffage of "Bad Robot." Maybe "hard rock" serves as a sufficient umbrella term for the many faces of this local act.