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Fully formed in 2007, BLACK TAXI is recognized as much for their wide-ranging musical influences and backgrounds as they are for their animated stage performance. Dance-Punk and Big-Wave dominate the foursome’s Grit-Pop sound. On their first full-length release, 2009’s Things of That Nature, they corrupt the traditional rock and roll line up of drums, bass, and guitar with all manner of percussion, glockenspiel, brass arrangements, and distorted Fender Rhodes. Thick harmonies collide with spitfire guitar licks in songs that hint at The Clash, Cake, and Daft Punk, but are driven by something entirely new and infectious.