With their fuzzy garagey sound and distorted, nasal vocals, The Britanys‘ songs will throw you back to an older, grittier New York City – a place we’ve recently begun to miss. Not the seriously dangerous city of the ’60s, when the rock’n’roll lifestyle implied wavering between life and death, but a more recent and safe Big Apple, when Alphabet City still felt sketchy, the scene’s action was centered around the LES, and Williamsburg was still a rather ugly and cheap neighborhood with potential – those were the late ’90s/early aughts, by the way. It’s no surprise, then, to find that the band worked on their most recent material with Gordon Raphael (producer of The Strokes’ "Is this it?"). Single "Get My" (streaming) channels this modern garage rock style, a mixture of rock ‘n’ roll and pop that has the "Made in NYC" stamp all over it. The Britany’s will share the stage with Frankie Rose, The So So Glos, and more at Out in the Streets Festival (June 16-17 at the Vander Ende-Onderdonk House in Queens) and are working on releasing a new EP in October. – Madeleine Grossman
