
[Happy birthday, Mac Davis -- I hope you're keeping it in the fairway ...] The Ettes' female-fronted garage rock, first unleashed on L.A. ears about four years ago, is hardly better than on its September release "Look at Life Again Soon" — urgent, low-fi, gnarly and making you wonder who'd win if the Ramones arm-wrestled the Runaways. The trio departed L.A. for the vagabond life over a year ago, recorded their album in London and return to familiar Silver Lake environs for a show at Spaceland, where Useless Keys [...]