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Music Menu Zoe Vette & The Revolvers at Snug Harbor tonight (8/18/2012)

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ZOE VETTE & THE REVOLVERS With a previous Revolvers incarnation, Queen City rock goddess Zoe Vette cranked out guilty pleasures like the giddy S&M rocker “Ground Ginger.” A new line-up continues and improves on ZVR’s glossy grinding punk, thanks in part to secret weapon, guitarist/producer Grey Revell. A product of N.Y.C.’s anti-folk scene, Revell produced luminaries Kimya Dawson and Regina Spektor while crafting solo music that ranges from acoustic punk to Eno-esque atmospherics. His “anti-showbiz” stance and rock solid chord progressions mesh well with Zoe’s Go-Go’s-after-they-gargled-carbolic vocals and “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” attitude. As for that attitude, it’s easy to tag ZVR as Joan Jett fronting hair metalists Faster Pussycat. (Indeed, as a fuck you to the constant Jett comparisons, ZVR covers not Joanie, but fellow Runaways alumni Lita Ford.) Placing ZVR in this pocket ignores their glammy experimental side, evidenced in rocked-up covers of Eno and T-Rex. Still, Zoe remains a gutsy, outspoken evangelist for the Church of Chick Rock. Seated on the right hand of patron saints Fanny, The Runaways and Suzi Quatro, she celebrates the shambolic glory of pre-hardcore melodic punk. With The Joy Kills, The Fill Ins, and Jym Chapman & the Migrant Workers. $5. Aug. 18, 9 p.m. Snug Harbor, 1228 Gordon St. 704-333-9799.

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