REAL DETROIT WEEKLY: FEATURE ARTICLE BY ERIC ALLEN!!!  (BELOW)  Here is the link to the actual article: 

http://www.realdetroitweekly.com/content/article_3950.shtml

THE CHOKE will kick off their BETTER. STRONGER. FASTER. TOUR with a show this SATURDAY MARCH 15th in DETROIT @ Bohemian National Home with one of our favorite Detroit bands ever - LEE MARVIN COMPUTER ARM!!!  This will be one of LMCA's final appearances.....

From RealDetroitWeekly.com

The Choke
Musical Asphyxiation

There is a long line of rock chicks that have always played just as dirty as the boys. Debbie Harry and Janis Joplin have done enough dirt to fill about 100 football stadiums. Yet, who's leading the charge nowadays? Certainly no one does it quite like Cameron Eve of the New York-based band The Choke.

In a whirlwind of jumping jacks, Tina Turner leg strutting and enough hand gestures to put a political candidate to shame, Eve is a punk rock tornado.  The boys in the band (bassist Josh Machlin, guitarist Hott Deth and drummer Jonny Napalm) are left to just stand back and watch the rock 'n' roll wreckage commence — that or get decked by the furious blonde dervish. "We didn't realize how talented she was until we brought her in and did a show," Jonny Napalm says. "We were very pleasantly surprised. She's what we call our 'secret weapon.'"

"Secret weapon" is an understatement. Cameron Eve fuels the punk-soul fire that is essential to The Choke's music. Just like Iggy and Tina, she's unafraid to get totally lost in the music, theirs that is based on the principles set by The Ramones, Motown and The Dead Boys. "We try to touch on all our favorite eras of rock 'n' roll," Napalm states. "We blend that it into one band." While many bands will take the safe route and just write songs about drinking beer that sound like "Blitzkrieg Bop," it's obvious from Napalm's statement that The Choke is trying to do something different.

Instead of focusing on the simplicity of punk, the band searches back through the history of rock and punk and works to encompass its long history of straightforwardness. By building on the diversity of artists ranging from Chuck Berry, The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las and The Avengers, The Choke have created a sound that is distinctly their own. With this idea in place, the group stands out among the masses of punk bands playing today, thus making their brand of noise heard far and wide.  | RDW

The Choke • 3/15 • The Bohemian National Home

From ROOMTHIRTEEN.COM (link below).....

http://www.roomthirteen.com/cgi-bin/cd_view.cgi?CDID=5514

I would not be at all surprised to find out Marty McFly was the bassist for New York punk rockers, The Choke. No, I have not lost 'the plot,' nor am I picturing Keanu Reeves' occasional fill-in on bass for The Vandals and imagining Michael J Fox with a musicman; I'm trying to paint an elaborate metaphor whereby members of The Choke are given the ability to traverse the planes of time. You see, The Choke have succeeded where many other bands have failed – they have successfully captured the sound and energy of 1970's punk rock, and make it sound authentic.

Right from the first note The Choke sound like a proper 70's punk band. They adhere to punk's 'stripped down rock and roll' philosophy by dispensing with an intro to burst emphatically into an anthemic chorus and show their DIY ethic with the garage rock style production. The first track, 'Extra,' manages to address newspaper sleaze, sound like the bastard child of X-Ray Spex and the Cockney Rejects and do it in under two minutes, ticking the 'play it fast' box pioneered New York compatriots the Ramones. 'Luv Me Tomorrow' follows, delivering more of the same sonically but delving into other subject matter.

The Choke's traditional punk sound, coupled with their devastating female lead vocals feels like a familiar breath of fresh air, and on the basis of this release, are well worth catching when they tour in Britain later this month.
by Joe Mclaughlin

Pick up a copy of the new issue (Winter '07) of the legendary PUNK magazine, featuring a review of our forthcoming 7" single!!!

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THE CHOKE! We had a blast at the 2006 Rational Animal/ASPCA Gimme Shelter Animal Rescue Benefit w/Beastie Boys, BOC, Sic Fux and guest Choke member Tony Barber!

MTV/VH1 News calls THE CHOKE "an energetic amalgam of 70's punk"... (link below)

http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1542483/10052006/beastie_boys.jhtml  

Also - Check out photo in SPIN!  (link below)

http://www.spin.com/features/ithappenedlastnight/2006/10/061005_gimmeshelter

From our tour with Buzzcocks (click link below).....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51236641@N00/

There's a great interview with Buzzcocks low-ender/producer Tony Barber in the current (May/June) UK Bass Guitar magazine. In addition to TB's gear and fave basslines, there is also this choice shout-out bout the mother-f-in Choke. Who loves ya, babee?

'I'm also working on a record with a band in New York called The Choke. The group sound how a classic New York band should sound like. And they are as New York as watching an old episode of Kojak and make the Strokes sound European!'

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