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Vally of the Lips

“I liked their simplicity… they reminded me of The White Stripes”
WAYNE COYNE ON DEAP VALLY

WAYNE Coyne was not looking for new musical collaborators when he first stumbled across Deap Vally at a live show in Raleigh two years ago (where he was visiting the creator of the world’s largest Gummy Bear, obviously).. “They reminded me of The White Stripes, just the two of them, primitive riffs and screaming. It’s like Joan Jett meets Courtney Love meets Bon Jovi! Every song of theirs is kind of like: look motherfuckers, we know we’re cool...”

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