Big Eyes

Featuring the guitar fireworks and snarlingly tough vocals of Kate Eldridge, the band Big Eyes started their career as a kind of punk-pop hybrid with some garage rock swagger added in, as their initial albums, like 2011's Hard Life, demonstrated. As lineups and locales changed, the band moved toward a dual guitar attack that owed much to '70s rockers like Thin Lizzy. By the time of 2019's album Streets of the Lost, the group sounded like an updated version of mid-'70s AOR. When Eldridge's bands Cheeky and Used Kids split up, she formed Big Eyes in Brooklyn in 2009 along with...