Sounds Like Norfolk Spirit

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Norfolk's punky, garage-rock gutter princes The Villains have released a new CD. They celebrated the new disc with show at The Taphouse over the weekend. We at Toggle Switch haven't gotten a copy yet, but we're working on it. Until I can give you a full review, check out a few songs here and head over to hamptonroads.com to read an interview with band leader Steve Baise.

Here's an excerpt:

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“It’s just something I started saying because of Frank Guida, which is the original Norfolk sound. I don’t write it as good or the same, but pretty close to the same style as him, which is rooted in the ’50s with girls and cars,” said Baise, songwriter and former member of 1989’s New York City punk rockers The Devil Dogs. Baise toured in Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada and, of course, the United States while with the band. He moved from New York 10 years ago, when the Dogs broke up, “I basically grew up in Jersey, and living down here reminds me of Jersey.”

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