When Erika Wennerstrom announces "I'm gonna take everything, everything!" on the Heartless Bastards' debut album "Stairs and Elevators" (Fat Possum), the raw quaver in her untamed voice gives her as much bite as the distortion on her guitar. Bravado runs through her songs, which drag midtempo British rock - from the Kinks to Bowie to Oasis - into a grimy American garage. Between her constant fuzz-tone and her burly two-man rhythm section, the album as a whole grows one-dimensional. But before it does, Ms. Wennerstrom leaves a vivid impression. -- The New York Times, Jon Pareles

Erika Wennerstrom badly needs a stage name, something better suited for her rock-goddess voice. The papers in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio, say that Wennerstrom is petite and shy, but when she opens her throat on Stairs and Elevators, the Heartless Bastards' debut, she sounds like she's wailing on the shoulders of giants; her sad and angry vocals channeling all the swagger and spit of a young Robert Plant, with none of the blues histrionics.
-- Rolling Stone, Bill Werde

Emily the Strange invites you to check out this "rock goddess" on the new Heartless Bastards album, 'The Mountain.' Go buy it, or sign up here to win it, along with a limited edition Heartless Bastards tote. 3 winners.

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