HRC’s Battle of the Bands gives lady rockers some stage space

My colleague and I, The Pitch‘s lovely calendar editor, Crystal Wiebe, judged yesterday’s showdown at HRC’s Battle of the Bands at Crosstown Station. There were two battles on two stages: The upstairs, in Press Lounge, held the day’s acoustic acts, and downstairs, the electric bands rocked out on Crosstown’s larger stage.

Dumptruck Butterlips took the honors in the electric category, thanks to the band’s soulful, boozy bluegrass tunes. Blame it on my raging girl-crush on the washboard player (or just the fact that someone played a washboard at all), but Dumptruck Butterlips captured my heart within the band’s first few numbers.