DYNASTY ELECTRIC WEEK

To celebrate the release of Dynasty Electric's Golden Arrows, we're featuring the band as our Artist Of The Week. So come back every day at 1:00 PM ET and you'll be treated to giveaways, interviews, reviews, music videos, and even a Celebrity Ranked!

May 9, 2011: Win An Autographed Copy Of Golden Arrows From Dynasty Electric (5 winners)
May 10, 2011: From The Beatles To Brooklyn: Our Interview With Jenny Electrik
May 11, 2011: Celebrity Ranked!: Dynasty Electric On The Beatles
May 12, 2011: CD Review: Dynasty Electric's Golden Arrows
May 13, 2011: "Golden Arrows," "Infectious," "Bird Song," And "Burning" Music Videos

Artists On The Verge: Send Us Your Music

Here at Culture Brats, we're always on the lookout for new music. We're into any genre, any style, as long as it's awesome. On Culture Brats Live, our weekly pop culture talk radio show, we've been playing tracks from bands on the rise as part of our Artists On The Verge series.

If you're a musician and would like us to feature your music on an upcoming show, drop us a line.

Game Boy Rock Stars: An Interview With D&D Sluggers' Soultron Tim White

D&D Sluggers are a Wilmington, NC duo that plays chip rock music on Game Boys and the Nintendo DS. While it would be easy from some to dismiss the band as a novelty act, even a casual listen to the Sluggers' music reveals awesome hooks, fun lyrics, and some great melodies.

Guitarist Soultron Tim White was nice enough to sit down with me and answer a few questions about D&D Sluggers, how one plays music on a Game Boy, their live show, and Afroman.

Tim, I'd like to thank you for taking time to speak with us today. How's it going?
No problem! I was just trying to find my cat.

Cheetah Whores: From Mustard To Sharktopus

Like everyone with taste, I tuned into SyFy's Sharktopus a couple of Saturdays ago. But it took me a while to actually watch the movie because I rewound the opening scene half a dozen times because I fell in love with the theme song. It was a perfect mix of surf, garage, punk, and camp, The Creature From The Black Lagoon crashing the Beach Blanket Bingo.

The Sharktopus theme song was written by the Cheetah Whores, a five-sixths all-female band who just released their debut album, Bang Bang Baby, last week. Bang Bang Baby is eleven tracks of fun, clocking in just shy of forty minutes. The Cheetah Whores are an awesome mix of classic '70s punk, surf, '50s/'60s girl groups, garage, and psychedelic rock, with every taste and genre accentuated with Therese O's haunting lap steel guitar. The lyrics are at times hilarious, at times serious, dealing with themes as vast as the Cheetah Whores' influences: murder, dive bars, crappy ex-boyfriends, even crappier jobs, bat cancer, dangerous girls you'd be foolish not to get to know better, and the famous Sharktopus. I love this album and have been listening to it nonstop the past few days. While the band is relatively unknown, Bang Bang Baby should change that.

Smitten as hell, I wanted to know more about the band. Luckily, head Whore Lizzy O was kind enough to answer a few questions for me:

Thanks for dropping by to answer a few questions today, Lizzy O!
Thank you for having me.

First things first: why Cheetah Whores? How did you guys come up with the name?
"I'm a street-walkin' Cheetah with a hand full of Napalm!" It has nothing to do with The Cheetah Girls, we had the band name before they were born but there's a little bit of whore in every little girl.