Stephanie is doing a great job of keeping TNG filled with interesting content.

Every now and then, particularly when there are torrential downpours and nature stops me dead in my grocery-shopping tracks, I do what I like to call “music cruising” – a time when I actively look for new music that I might be interested in. Normally, I am the type of person who relies on other people to tell me about hip, up-and-coming music, or cool shows that are coming to town. In fact, if not for other people, I’m pretty sure my iPod would be occupied by only two artists – the Spice Girls and Matchbox 20. (I’m not ashamed; I accept and appreciate my music tastes for what they are, even if they haven’t changed since middle school.)

So, about three hours into the ridiculous Sunday rain, when I had finally accepted that I would be going to neither the gym nor the grocery store, I decided to music cruise. During this time, I do things like: read the music blogs of old college friends; read Pitchfork; follow link after link after link; check out MySpace music pages; and comb through the calendars of nearby music venues. It was during this last activity that I made a profound lesbian discovery – Leisha Hailey has a band called Uh Huh Her – named after a PJ Harvey album – and they are coming to D.C. on May 14. Alice! Alice will be live, doing vocals/synth/bass in the 9:30 Club on May 14! I know that she probably hates being referred to by her small-screen name, but c’mon – it’s not like I actually consider Leisha a pill-popping, crazy talk-show host; she is, however, my favorite L Word funny girl, Alice.

Since I just heard of the band today, and iTunes only has six songs for offer, I decided to give their MySpace description as my description:

Uh Huh Her’s sound – a self-described indie electro-pop hybrid – is a unique and organic product of Hailey and Grey’s styles. “[The sound] is the evolution from our backgrounds,” Grey says. “We slammed them all together and that’s what came out.” Their music has a sultriness that crashes head on with the profound, both cosmic and carnal; it is replete with elastic bass lines, ambient synths and backbeats that will seduce to the core.

Perhaps I’m biased by prior knowledge, but when I listen to the sounds of Uh Huh Her, it does, in fact, sound like a lesbian-oriented band, if for no other reason than that they just have that mellow-yet-upbeat, pained sound that lesbians love to listen to. Anyway, I don’t really care what they sound like; I’ll be at the 9:30 Club on May 14 – it’s mother-fucking Alice Pieszecki.