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Live at Noise Pop 2007
Boyskout
Boyskout may no longer be a local band (now that 60% of the group has transplanted to Brooklyn), but that doesn't mean they've abandoned San Francisco. Fresh off a tour promoting their second LP, Another Life, the quintet has been tearing up both coasts with Leslie Satterfield's coy mod-rocker vocals, Piper Lewine's insistent bass lines, and Christina Stanley's violin and keyboard alchemy. Boyskout packs their tunes with squealing guitar distortion and dance-inducing keyboard riffs that draw comparison to the Cure, Elastica, and '80s new wave -- certain to get kids on both coasts on the dance floor. -CONNIE HWONG
Boyskout came to fruition in 2001 when singer guitarist Leslie Satterfield was offered a show opening for her long time favorite act The Need. Never mind that Boyskout didn't exist yet, or that she only had three weeks to prepare. She and band mates took the stage with a handful of songs, a bucket full of nerves, and disposition to spare. In 2003 the ladies of Boyskout met up with acclaimed Bay Area producer Jeff Salzman (Stephen Malkumus, Killers, Will Oldham) who recorded their debut album School of Etiquette, which came out in 2004 on Alive Records (Black Keys, Two Gallants). The album garnered critical praise, such as: "If some CBGB's Frankenstein had managed, circa 1977, to transplant Patti Smith's sensibility into Blondie's garage-band pop, the result would have sounded something like BoySkout's "School of Etiquette. - Noise Pop 2006 Program Guide
