Electric Six & The Surfrajettes

Hailing from Detroit, MI sextet Electric Six mix garage, new wave, and metal into in-your-face songs like “Danger! High Voltage,” which reached number two on the British charts early in 2003. Singer Dick Valentine, guitarists Rock and Roll Indian and Surge Joebot, bassist Disco, and drummer M. formed the Wildbunch in 1996 , releasing their debut single, “I Lost Control (Of My Rock & Roll).” The group switched to Flying Bomb for singles like 1997’s “The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ,” the Christmas single “Flying Bomb Surprise Package, Vol. 1,” and 2001’s “Danger! High Voltage,” which became an underground hit, particularly in the U.K. The following year the group signed to XL and re-recorded “Danger! High Voltage,” this time adding backing vocals from the White Stripes’ Jack White. After the re-release of the single in 2003, Electric Six issued their full-length debut album, Fire, later that spring. In 2004, the band got a new record deal with Rushmore, a British Warner Bros. imprint,.

The second Electric Six album, Señor Smoke, arrived in the U.K. early in 2005. Early in 2008, Valentine embarked on his American Troubadour solo tour, which included stops in Hamtramck, Michigan, and Portland, Oregon; that spring, Electric Six recorded their fifth album, Flashy. Metropolis released Flashy that fall, followed by Sexy Trash, a 30-track album of demos and previously unreleased material, and two new studio albums, Kill (2009) and Zodiac(2010). The following year, the band took their sound in a darker direction, shifting slightly from dance-rock to synth pop on the nocturnal Heartbeats and Brainwaves. 2012 saw them bringing their high-energy live shows to fans on their first concert album, Absolute Pleasure. Their tenth studio album, Mustang, arrived in October of 2013.