Chicago – For months I had been told to check out Wolf Alice, and for months I disobeyed the orders. From friends and fellow music journalists, to DJs on the radio, it seemed everyone and their mom was praising the U.K. foursome, who I knew only from the alternative radio single “Moaning Lisa Smile.” When I
San Francisco – Early on Drenge’s sophomore LP Undertow, singer-guitarist Eoin Loveless shouts in a tone tinged with obstreperous punk-rocker triumph, “we can do what we want!” That succinct declaration of autonomy and defiance adequately sums up the U.K.-based duo’s musical philosophy. Instead of simply continuing the same blistering sound terrifically exemplified on last year’s