The Premiere

Last year, local hip-hop duo The Premiere self-released a phenomenal album, London Paris New York — an audio opus packed with instrumentation from garage-rock guitar solos to New Wave synths, all layered over beds of bouncing beats and clever raps (“Patrick Swayze” still gets our vote for catchiest local song of the past two years). Phoenix radio station KWSS 106.7 put songs from the album into regular rotation, but the record’s still criminally underheard, probably because The Premiere rarely plays locally. Before the CD’s release, The Premiere’s David Wilkey had this to say in the band’s MySpace blog: “Adam [Jackman] and I are sick to death of constantly jacking ourselves off to the hotness of this record for three years now, and it is about time that you all should be so honored to actually witness it.” Wilkey also promises “an incredible, guerrilla-style multimedia stage show.” The music’s enough, but a spectacle sounds good to us, too.