Hell's Belles

Vintage sounds, dusty grooves, and 21st-century freaks.

My latest lady-crush is Sea of Bees, a one-woman band from Sacramento.  Sea of Bees (real name: Jules) is on tour with Smoke Fairies in the UK right now, and her off-kilter storytelling folk will be a fine partner for the Smokes’ creepy acoustic folk-blues.

“Marmalade” is taken from the forthcoming Songs For The Ravens album, and is at the slightly rockier end of Sea of Bees. I grabbed this track from her website, and if you head there you can find more musical goodies including her 2009 EP.  She’s also a good follow on Twitter.  She’s a very witty and funny lady.

Sea of Bees – Marmalade by hells-belles

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UPDATE: My boyfriend got heroically drunk and “interviewed” the equally inebriated Sea of Bees.  And recorded it.  You can hear it, uncut, here:

http://goodbyefaithfulkingdom.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-preposterous-interview-with-sea-of.html

At least for the US.  Can’t find any UK listings for the Runaways film yet.  Is it any surprise that all of Tits of Death are dying to see it?

MP3: The Runways – Cherry Bomb

(Of course.)

And here’s the film trailer.

Marva Whitney, along with Lyn Collins and Vicki Anderson, was one of the singers with the James Brown Revue.  She’s one hell of a belter in her own right, and released a string of stormin’ 45s, including this funkity-ass slice of funk in 1969.

MP3: Marva Whitney – Things Got To Get Better