I saw Queen Kwong at the Silverlake Lounge on May 14. It is a three piece band with a female lead singer. Per her website, the lead singer, Carre Callaway was the opening act for Nine Inch Nails in Fresno. This sort of explains things, because the set at the Silverlake Lounge was very good -- especially for a band that was only doing its third set (if I heard correctly.) So even if the band is new to the Los Angeles music scene, she is hardly a new face in music.
Queen Kwong has this Mazzy Star feel to it so this is hardly a band that has NIN influences. Most of the set was relatively mild focusing on Carre's vocals. For their last song, it picked up dramatically, which lead to an interesting situation. I guy in the audience got inspired and jumped to the front of the stage where he began to prostrate himself in front of the band. He hugged the monitor and then threw the microphone stand aside. Someone from the audience sort of looked at the situation and then pushed the guy back into the audience. Another person came over and put the microphone stand back together. Ah, the crazy drunk guy . . . every so often you see them around the Los Angeles music scene.
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