Get smitten: The Mission Orange

Ooh. Few bands have me at hello, as they say, but I turned all 12-year-old girl at a Beatles concert circa 1964 the second I heard The Mission Orange, this noisy garage duo from Mount Vernon, Washington. You know - where George Washington was appointed the first president of hemp. Anyways, these two guys've got this totally infectious energy, and sound all dirty like Nirvana in the Bleach days: loud, fuzzy, distorted, melodious and way rocking, a sort of punk/rock hybrid, with the vocalist/guitarist Marcus Nevitt, who's still in high school, resembling Kurt Cobain in screams and Layne Stayley in yowls (there is a difference). Distortion + pop hooks = smittenness So check out their debut full-length album Seasick for 11 gobs of planet-sized loveliness if you're the type who can appreciate a little bit of sugar in their spaghetti.