Track Marks: How Sister Vanilla Became This Week’s Biggest Band In The World

Welcome to another edition of Track Marks, in which your Idolators perform an autopsy on the latest band burning up the MP3-blogger charts.

Artist: Sister Vanilla Hometown: UK/LA Album: Little Pop Rock, out April 3 First blog mention: A Sept. 17, 2005, mention of a compilation contribution by This Is The Last… The Build-Up: A split single in the fall of 2005 garnered mentions from Green Pea-Ness and One Louder, among others; docophenhagen wondered when Little would be coming out last April. The Dam-Break: A flurry of posts this week, including raves from 3hive, Villains Always Blink, Untouched By Work Or Duty, and EAR FARM. Odds of Backlash: 9-1. Why such a long shot? Well, Sister Vanilla is basically Linda Reid and her brothers Jim and William–you know, the guys from the Jesus and Mary Chain. So unless the brothers really screw up their Coachella performance, the goodwill should keep flowing from the music-blog world. Are They Worthy?: Yes–but you had to figure that we’d love any band that added surly female vocals to the hazy, drugged-up guitar mix that the Jesus and Mary Chain is best known for.

Sister Vanilla – Jamcolas [MP3, link expired] Sister Vanilla – Can’t Stop The Rock [MP3, link expired] Sister Vanilla [MySpace]