Video: Mint Chicks

The tide of bands relocating to Portland these days can be overwhelming and occasionally infuriating. They come here, take our jobs, our women, bring diseases like herpes and gonorrhea...you know, all the things Columbus did when he came to America. Anyway, Auckland (that's New Zealand!) noise/punk/electro/experimenta l/new-wave/etc./pop imports the Mint Chicks ain't cut from the out-for-glory cloth that occasionally irks us about new Portland bands. In fact, these dudes really didn't need to leave their native New Zealand in the first place, as they were cleaning up over there. At the '07 New Zealand Music Awards [...]