Music:
Member Since: 8/16/2005
Band Website: booking email - [email protected]
Band Members: Kyle Stabile - Guitar & Vocals
Leslie Stabile - Drums & Attitude
Influences: Some of the things we like-music and otherwise ...
Elvis & Pricilla/ Johnny & June/ Bonnie & Clyde/ Micky & Mallory/EAT YOUR HEART OUT/ Alabama 3/ PJ Harvey/ Thrill Kill Kult/ Black Flag/ Janis Joplin/ The Cramps/ Bruce Springsteen/ Peaches/ Flobee Eggplants/ Mike Ness / Motorhead/MOTORPUSSY/ Girl School/ Goodtime Gil & the Champagne Cowboys/ Tori Amos/ Henry Rollins/ Patti Smith/ GG Allin/ Bill Miller/ Hank III/ The Ramones/ Loretta Lynn/ Deadwood/ Detroit Cobras/ Joan Jett/ trains/ leather/ coffee/ red lipstick/ sequins/ s'milk/ VIV's/ pompadours/ the dirty desert sun/ belles/ taxi rides/ old suitcases/ love letters/ rhinestones/ Sparks/ sin
Sounds Like: "The soothing sounds of Black Sabbath repeatedly sodomizing the members of miscellaneous SST bands while using the holes of Elvis 45s as erection sustaining devices."
From the Portland Mercury - "It's like we're living in the land of the '50s, black and white, same thing every day," yells Kyle Stabile on "Spilling Coffee on My Blue Jeans." You might think Stabile is complaining, but Hairspray Blues has something of a vintage fetish, evoking Elvis, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and biker B-movies throughout their new album Sick Little Package, which celebrates its release tonight. Kyle's wife Leslie accompanies him with choppy gut-punch drumming, and the White Stripes comparisons are very tempting, but Hairspray Blues are punkier, bluesier, and more sincere than the peppermint-clad duo from Detroit. Their music takes a rotting Black Sabbath carcass and drapes it over a rockabilly skeleton, then brings it all to life with a full bottle of trucker pills.
From the Stonewailer.com
(June 14, Women Who Rock, Ash St. Saloon) You get the feeling that the dynamic duo that converges to create Hairspray Blues have an on-and-off-stage relationship that is two shots XOXO, one shot BFF, and one shot IH8U. Their music is brutal and simple without being simplistic.
From Willamette Week
"ECLECTIC FEMME ROCK] Tonight's show is part of the Women Who Rock series that goes on thrice a month here in Portland, the aim of which has been to showcase underrepresented artists in the Northwest. Hairspray Blues and the woman in question here, Leslie Stabile, peddle speedy lo-fi garage rock. Stabile and her husband, Kyle, are P-town transplants plucked straight from the forests of Pennsylvania to bring out loud, screeching riffs to dance and squirm to. "
From Livepdx.com
"This Portland two piece plays a dark, brooding kind of broken blues that stalks you like the shadow of Death. Something like Black Sabbath meets The White Stripes, this guitar and drum duo create aggressively simple music. The songs are raw on your nerves and leave you itching for more of those primitive beats and animalistic six string attack. With just the slightest hint of retro-garage-voodoo goodness, this band is deliciously mischievous, like a deep dark secret seething just below the surface, waiting patiently for its moment in the sun. So if you’re not in the mood for the hectic crowds of the downtown festival this weekend, catch this couple playing their hearts out. "
From the Portland Mercury
Hairspray Blues is a sonic hailstorm comprised of two star-studded lovers, Kyle and Leslie Stabile, destined for open sky and city lights. Legend has it that the pair met in a doughnut shop, fell in love, married, and then split to the backwoods of Pennsylvania for an affair with the Wild West. The duo puts on a fierce performance, combining retro-blues with black metal and thundering drums. Sitting high upon her throne, Leslie Stabile's ebony hair lashes around her face as she venomously strikes upon the percussive head of her prey. Meanwhile, Kyle Stabile creates a whirlwind of guitars around his bride while spitting out words like, "I've got a woman mean as she can be/Sometimes I think she's almost mean as me." A match made in hell. EM BROWNLOWE
Hairspray Blues are made up of the husband and wife duo Kyle and Leslie Stabile. They are true rock warriors and have no qualms melting minds all over the place via their new disc, "Sick Little package". They came to rainy Portland, OR, indie rock mecca of the world, from what they refer to as "the dismal woods of Northwestern Pennsylvania". We are glad to have them rocking out on the western side of the good ol USA. --- MastanMusic.com
Record Label: Neon Taxi Records
Type of Label: Indie
