(Credit: Rene Cervantes)
THANK you, America. FINALLY we get to claim a real, honest-to-God, ripped-jeans-ratty-hair-we-drink-and-smoke-cuz-we-don't-care rock band as our own. Australia got The Vines, Arctic Monkeys are British, no one wants to claim Pete Doherty, The Strokes are almost all married and living in Brooklyn now, and Jack White could count, but I don't even think he's from this planet.
Billy Boy On Poison is from the place where America's dreams go to die... No, not Orlando. LOS ANGELES. And their balls-to-the-walls brand of gritty, all-American rock rebellion reeks of their Sunset Strip musical upbringing. In the good way. Appropriately, songs about sinnin' and sexin' are on the agenda of this band that takes their name from A Clockwork Orange.
You may already know that Kiefer Sutherland signed Billy Boy On Poison to his Ironworks Records label and that he co-directed their "On My Way" video -- their single that was also featured on Gossip Girl -- but there are a few more things you may not know about the band. Like did you know they're REALLY INTO HERBAL CIGARETTES? "Jazz cigarettes," I'm assuming. And finally, they're also REALLY into Taylor Swift and the Jonas Brothers. Harboring a secret soft spot for Disney artists? What's more American than that?
+ Watch "On My Way" after the jump, and check out their debut album, Drama Junkie Queen, out today.