Now that Lady Gaga has made bombastic, hyper-gay glam pop safe for the masses, perhaps it’s Scissor Sisters’ time to shine. The campy New York dance-rock act has been grinding it out for more than a decade now and is touring on its just-released new album,
Magic Hour. Opener Rye Rye, a wild female MC from Baltimore, was the first artist signed to M.I.A.’s N.E.E.T Recordings label, and she sounds like it.
— David Hudnall