Nearly two years after stealing the show with the sunburned sugarpop of their debut album Too Hot To Be Bothered, Southern California’s reigning princesses of summertime party brattiness return with Girls With Candy Hearts, a brand new E.P. featuring seven more slices of deliciously bright ‘n’ tight tunes guaranteed to jam the jukebox. Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Nick Gilder, and punk screen sirens The Fabulous Stains are all lucky enough to receive the royal Rocket treatment this time: All fuzz ‘n’ buzz and junk shop pop production. The E.P. also contains a newly-penned pair of powerpop gems in “Not That Kind Of Girl“ and “Breakup Season,” plus the group-composed “Guitar Center Love Song,” a sweet and sour ballad that sounds like the runaway teenage daughter of Pet Sounds and the Pooh Sticks. When you think of Rocket, think of driving along an L.A. beach in an open-top, bright pink Cadillac. Rocket is a revolutionary concoction of fun, smiles, candy, bubblegum, and beating hearts. Coquettishness-meets-bombast, kittens-meet-rattlesnakes; Rocket is the launching pad for a new generation of pop flounce. The all-girl band mixes 60's girl group innocence with ‘70s decibel-damaging boulevard beat and ‘80s glam wham swagger, a volatile combination that leaves one wondering what the results would be if the Shangri-La’s crash landed onstage at the Starwood during an early Motley Crue gig.

Younger, louder, and snottier…ROCKET are this generation’s children of the revolution.