Namesakes

Elizabeth Borden of Lizzie Borden and the Axes fame, has a kewl website that includes tons of info about her and her bands. Her newest incarnation is as The Liz Borden Band and a new CD will be released soon. Check it out!

Band Members Lizzie Borden – guitar & Vocals, Kelly Johnson – Bass, Rita Lavacchia – Guitar, Lisa Addario – Guitar & Vocals, John Kokas – drums

Influences Ramones, Dead Boys, Sex Pistols, The Mama’s & Papa’s, Blondie, Patti Smith, Nirvana, The Judds, Wynonna, X, Ashlee Simpson, Abba, Lizzie Borden & The axes, Concrete Blonde, Eric Clapton, Led Zepplin, Cowboy Junkies

Sounds Like Sporting wispy pop harmonies and a giant, three guitar wall of sound (“It really isn’t sonics. We just had three guitarists, and no one wanted to give up playing guitar.”), the group vacillate from Ramones-style power chord, pummeling to an even more ferocious “acid’s-groovy-let’s-kill-the-pigs”-type psychedelia. Popping a little, droning a little, tripping a little, the Liz Borden Band take all the better aspects of the past 30 years of rock and bring them into alignment with modern-rock taste. Borden, the chief architect of the sound, is by no means ready to slip into the easy-listening, world-weary acoustic strumming many of her contemporaries have gravitated toward. She claims the best is yet to come. Listen through the songs that constitute The Lizzie Borden band (Beverly/Raven Records), one is forced to wonder how much more of an edge a band could possibly deliver. From the opening Veruca Salt-meets-Lee Josephs’s-LSD-flashback of “Desire” to the pop-metal rendition of Lulu’s classic “To Sir with Love,” the Liz Borden Band walk a tight line between real and surreal, hard and soft, razor-sharp black and white ranting and fuzzy, Technicolor vomiting. When Borden chants the title chorus to “Outside,” a tune devoted to the negative slant of the evening news, you can practically hear her catharsis splash against the back of the toilet bowl. -The Boston Phoenix Newspaper