The Steens are two brothers based in Orange County, California. Picking up where fate dropped them off, The Steens’ “Future Rock ‘N’ Roll” sound is very much in tune with their childhood. Buzzing guitars, gold glistening through a distorted lens while blown-out 808s clip your speakers & invite Little Richard over to take some uppers with. Someone suggested their band was like “The Black Strokes or something…” The Steens weren’t offended one bit.
If the afterlife is anything like “Heaven”, the latest single from The Steens, it’s going to be a truly blissful eternity for lovers of brazen, riff heavy, fuzz magic. While it’s not hard imagining this as a B-Side to “All Day and All Night”, the song has plenty of its own snot to have it be a fitting and welcome addition to any contemporary festival line-up. After 70 or so years there’s no need to reinvent the wheel with every new rock and roll song written, you just gotta get it right, which the Steens seem to be doing.
“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when we wake up…it’s so simple. We think the hard parts dying, that’s the easy part. The hard part is living. That’s what people mean when they talk about going to heaven. So have a good day.”
