Hot Damn - The BellRays
My friend saw this band at some club on the lower east side recently and turned me on to them. I don’t have the record yet but I am pretty excited about The BellRays.

The lyrics are retro to the point of kitsch (their whole '81 punk image is too) but there is no arguing with the sound, the concept of which is basically Tina Turner fronting a hardcore band. Which actually ends up sounding like your basic Ike & Tina track, which is just fine. Here are some places to listen:

Someone has a geocities site with some mp3's up.
Their myspace profile has three songs in the internal player.
Their home page has some downloads but they are .wma files.

Now come play Philly you bums!