Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Fight Club
Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, November 2005
WITH THE swagger of the young Yardbirds and the unstudied panache and casual arrogance of the early Stones, Nick Jago, Robert Been and Peter Hayes strutted onto the music scene in 1998 as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the darker brethren of the grunge purveyors who preceded them in rock's phylogenetic scale.
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