Special Interest

Hailing from New Orleans, the quartet Special Interest is punk in spirit but respects no genre boundaries. Industrial noise blends with throbbing disco beats, and a glam-rock gleam glistens beneath a grimy punk-rock veneer. Is there any other band in existence that’s garnered comparisons to Funkadelic, Coil, and the B-52? And that’s just for their third album, the excellent LP Endure, on which a carnival of sounds marches to smart, bitter lyrics.