Local Label Anodyne Signs the Vox Jaguars

Anodyne Records, home to the Architects, the Valley Arena, the Meat Puppets, the Hearers, Sirhan Sirhan, Roman Numerals, and, most recently, the Bellrays, have just added a new band to their roster: the Vox Jaguars, and they are, like, 15 years old.

But hey, if there’s any label out there that oughta be friendly to kid bands, it should be Anodyne, which, as we all know, is partly run by a Gadjit.

Here’s what the one and lonely Brandon Phillips says about these here Jaguars:

The Vox Jaguars’ wryly romantic lyrics and lusty dance floor tempos will transport you to the most righteous basement parties of your youth- when we were all spitting our ADD meds into the toilet and sneaking out the kitchen door to get loaded on box-wine, suck face and be awash in music that informed the urgency of our shared adventure. The Vox Jaguars musical DNA bears traces of the epic teen-raunch rock and roll genes of The Troggs & The Standells passed through the lineages of Bowie & Bolan, recapitulated by The Verve and Blur and then seeded and sown into the soil of present-day Santa Cruz by The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s.