The Little Death is:
Moby on Guitar and Bass;
Laura Dawn on Vocals;
Daron Murphy on Guitar, Bass and Harmonica;
Aaron Brooks on Drums.
The Death Threats are:
Cherie Martorana and
Luci Butler on backing vocals
Influences
Big Brother and the Holding Company, Led Zeppelin, Junior Wells, Etta Jones, the Ike and Tina Turner Review, Otis Redding, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Sam Cooke, Jimi Hendrix, Dusty Springfield, & Albert King
“One of New York’s best-kept sultry secrets….top notch players and volcanic generosity…singer Laura Dawn’s staging and rocket-fuel is punk…and her powerhouse voice channels blues and gospel…she’s a riveting performer, her own blend of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin…Daron Murphy bends low with his guitar and to her right, Moby paces forwards and back with his bass. The sound is their own special cocktail of soul, punk, blues, rock, and just the right amount of drunk.” –Annie Nocenti, The Brooklyn Rail
"noirish-blues-rock meets Laura Dawn's sultry purr and the bald one's punk" Time Out NY
"The rock and soul outfit cranked out one hell of a performance...the kind of music played in old juke joints updated with some modern touches...soul searching lyrics about love and other catastrophes...Laura (Dawn)'s a powerhouse of a woman with a voice that makes you feel this big (take your thumb and index and put them close to each other)..You just don't mess around with her..." - MusicSnobbery.com
"Like the original Ike & Tina Turner Revue, minus the beatings. I love them." -John Waters on The Little Death nyc
"Move over Janis Joplin!" - David Lynch
The Little Death NYC began in a basement rehearsal space on the lower east side.
Four friends: Aaron Brooks (drums), Laura Dawn (lead vocals), Daron Murphy (guitar, bass, & harmonica) and Moby (bass, guitar), decided to meet up and play loud rock n blues music that they would actually want to listen to.
What they created sounds like a drunken bar fight between John Lee Hooker and Kurt Weill or the desperate love-child of Big Mama Thornton and Robert Mitchum. Old blues, soul, punk & vintage psychedelic sounds slamming behind songs about fucking and despair, drunken joy and glorious dissolution, all fronted by a white girl with a voice equal parts Bessie Smith and Dusty Springfield.
After playing in a Ludlow Street basement rehearsal studio for friends, their first two club appearances sold out within 48 hours and have since become legend. Little Death shows (featuring backup singers Luci Butler and Cherie Martorana), aka The Death Threats) are raucous and passionate, like a punk-rock fueled blues revival.
The group’s been recording with producer David Seitz (Jeff Buckley, Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M). They might make a record. Or, they may just keep playing rock and roll for their friends and anyone lucky enough to catch them live.
What can I say? Amazing, amazing show last night, thank you all for such a great time. I wanted to drive home listening to The Little Death but there's no CD! Please record one, you guys are just too good. Congrats again and btw, the Death Threats...they can take me hostage anytime ;)
hey, just picked up tix for the show at the mercury lounge. i know i've already seen you guys but for only $10? you guys are too awesome to pass up, and i thank you, and my wallet thanks you, for what's sure to be a kick ass time :) my only hope is that rene risque will make an appearance, but alas, one cannot have everything. keep it rockin!
Hello TLD!!!!!! How are you ? Hope you still rock!
I miss you.....we all want to see you in France! (and not just Moby 5 min on TV with Cauet when you can't come in Paris to see him at the Fnac!!!!! :(...)
Sorry I haven't written lately (college prep&co; might go to Columbia ..:D/). Hope you rock the socks off weird Austin. I'll be in NYC in May at the UN for the Commission on Sustainable Development. Being under 21, can't get drunk with you guys, but hopefully see ya somewhere in NYC?
