Annie & the Bang Bang
Fronted and founded by fight director, songwriter, and guitarist Annie Enneking, Annie and the Bang Bang are a Minneapolis rock band. All multi-disciplined artists, they genre hop from dreamy folkpop to late sixties rock to swampy psychedelic grooves, crafting musical gems that value energy, animal intelligence, poetry, and mischief.
Annie believes songwriting is an act of spiritual archeology and so sifts through words to find bones of song, telling stories about being a person in a world full of complicated people. She relies on the artistry, thick invention, and dig-right-down-into-it-ness of the Bang Bang: the stacked chording and “just what the song wants” guitar of John Riedlinger, the lead-with-the-heart bass monster that is Kari Tweiten, and the heavy adventure and sharp, corner-turning drums of Mike Kittel.
Andrea Swenson says "Front woman Annie Enneking leads the group with an honest voice dedicated to telling the stories of underdogs and unsung heroes." Cyn Collins says of their most recent album, Loveland: "The band performs vibrant real rock – some songs shambolic and raucous, others psychedelic tinged, with mesmerizingly hypnotic vibes."
website: Annie and the Bang Bang
photo credits: Helen Teague (above), Michael Hardwick (on the right)