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

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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

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