Don't expect any seasonal cheer from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. For almost a decade, the Los Angeles-based three-piece's dark brand of bluesy garage rock has been burning a trail across the music scene. The demons that fuel the band's successes are the same ones that have, in the past, caused them to skid off the road and almost implode.
For a while, when they were dropped from their label Virgin and drummer Nick Jago quit in order to confront his drug and alcohol addictions (both in 2004), the BRMC engine flatlined.
A record deal with another major, RCA, breathed life back into the battered machine. Now, with the release of "Baby 81," their second album on the label (and fourth of their career), and re-energized by the return of Jago, the band has returned to its previously rockin' form.