Video: Vains of Jenna - Noone's Gonna Do It For You

There are a number of blogs and sites dedicated to '80s hair metal that I regularly check out as much for news about the bands I grew up listening to (and still occupy a healthy amount of space on my iPod) as for the introduction to current bands carrying on in the tradition of the likes of Motley Crue, Faster Pussycat, LA Guns, and Kix. I'm sure there are a lot of bands that I'm missing here but if we could Rikki Rachtman to host a special 2009 edition of [...]

Opening last night's Poison show (fun, pyro-filled, CC apparently fluish) was the Swedish heavy-metal outfit Vains of Jenna : Think Buckcherry only with everyone dressing ca. the Sunset Strip in 1989, led by a singer who seemed to have learned his stage patter from the Hives' Howlin' Pelle Almqvist. At one point, the frontman--named Lizzy DeVine--pleaded with the crowd to buy some merch because the band was, and I quote, "fucking broke," and since their set was quite enjoyable, I figured I'd help them out. But the only items available were T-shirts and keychains, and there wasn't a CD [...]