Ok, so right after this demo hits the streets, Shiny Mama starts going through some major restructuring. I don’t know exactly what’s going down, but I can tell you that it has something to do with hard drugs and death threats. Christ, we’re looking at one hell of a rock n’ roll demo already and we haven’t even got to the music yet.

Shiny Mama are New York bombastic glamour queens through and through, led by one of rock n’ roll’s first ever bombastic glamour queens, the Ukrainian-born kills for thrills goddess, Yana Chupenko. Yana got her start on the Lower East Side many moons ago, fronting both P.M.S. and Wench, but now, with Shiny Mama, she’s taken the female-infused punk brawl she helped invent and fused it with a heavy dose of flash metal and spazzy lounge rock. The result? Well, it’s sleazy and heavy and glittery all at the same time and once Yana starts in with her Ian Astbury/Tina Turner/Blondie whirling dervish of high kicks, martini shakes, and nasty vocals, you’ll be wishing this one had more than five songs. Best on deck here is opener Got a Thing, a chugging arena rocker that’s a Sonic Temple blast of Weirdorama ribaldry and Ronnie James Dio passion, if you can imagine such a thing. Followers Back in USA, Rover, and Evil Lover pretty much follow the same formula with slinky sex, rabid raunch, and dance fever thrown in for good measure. Last but not least is a blazin’ cover of Rainbow’s Long Live Rock N’ Roll. Sure, it’s been done before, but this is the sexiest version you’ll ever hear, I guarantee it, no matter how much you want to make love to RJD.