Cheeseburger

Cheeseburger is gamely wanting to carry out for the Stooges the actual Darkness did for Queen and what Redd Kross did for ’60s bubblegum: updating the music with efficient hooks, snarky punk attitude, and a knack for visual jokes. The Brooklyn-based trio of vocalist Joe Bradley, guitarist Christy Karacas, and drummer Luke Crotty upgrade the Stooges’ proto-punk yowl for the post-White Stripes era, with Bradley’s spot-on Iggy Pop impersonation both group’s perhaps most obviously feature and its own biggest millstone. Cheeseburger debuted having a self-titled EP in 2002, accompanied by the razor-sharp, concentrated EP Gang’s All Within 2005. (Even though EP continues its desire for Stooges-style hostility and NY Dolls raunch, the cover artwork is definitely a note-perfect, deadpan parody from the sleeve of Harry Nilsson’s damaged ’70s soft rock and roll masterpiece Nilsson Schmilsson, with Bradley in the iconic open up refrigerator and bathrobe shot.) The next EP premiered by the brand new York garage area punk label Kemado Information, which implemented it with 2006’s Cheeseburger, a full-length record that reprised lots of the music from the initial two EPs.