LO-BALL by Kastle featured mp3 sex in the white house download (3.2 MB) Is it still tough to be a female in rock 'n' roll? Unfortunately, yes, according to the girls in Lo-Ball. But you'd never know it by attending one of their shows. The buzz on this band has been going for almost a year now - ever since the addition of frontwoman Pauley P. The stunning, willowy blonde actress/singer moved to Los Angeles from New York three years ago. She joined Lo-Ball last April after the band had already been playing around town as a foursome. Cranking out poppy, punk-enthused rock, the five rowdy chicks of Lo-Ball -- Pauley P. (vocals), J.C.(rhythm guitar), Katie (bass), Lissa (lead guitar) and Claudia (drums) -- consistently play to packed houses at clubs such as Dragonfly and Goldfinger's. We sat down with them at their Swinghouse rehearsal studios in Hollywood one day to talk about what it is to be "Cool Grrrls" in rock. Q: You started as a four piece group, how did Pauley become involved with the band? Claudia: Katie was our singer at the time but we really wanted a front-person for the band because we wanted a ROCK SHOW! It was weird timing [meeting Pauley] and it was something we needed to do. We just saw her and went "that's our singer!" and it snowballed from there. Pauley: I did a special for E! Entertainment Television on club Makeup in Vegas. JC and Claudia were watching TV one night and saw that special and thought, "that's the kind of girl we want in our band." They had no idea that I was a singer. They tracked down my number and called me. I was in the middle of doing a horrible TV show at the time and I told them I couldn't get involved in anything else. I kept talking to them and they were so cool. I went to go see them play at the Troubadour and was blown away. I met them at rehearsal and we just started messing around and playing songs and before I knew it, we were just completely a band like we had always been together the whole time. Q: How is the chemistry with the lineup now? Pauley: We all like each other so much, every girl in the band is so interesting and different. There's something that connects us all together. It's hard enough to establish a relationship with just one person. We have that with the five of us. There's something magical about how we all get along. Q: How has it been playing the Hollywood scene? Pauley: We all love to play. We haven't had any bad experiences. Lo-Ball would play every night if we could. It's our favorite thing to do. Claudia: We're definitely lucky in that people really seem to enjoy our shows and our band. Q: What have you heard from the record industry? Pauley: Pretty much everybody at some point has talked to us and we've got things in the works. We joke about this famous quote that was said by a very important record guy: 'I don't even have to listen to them, all girl bands suck…' I don't want to be a whiner about it, but women still have to fight their way into rock 'n' roll. Q: Is it still hard to be an all-girl band? Claudia: They always think we're a dance group because there are five of us. But it's like a freak show. It's still a spectacle. But I think that's the case with everything woman do when it's first starting out -- women as athletes, women as doctors -- in any field that has been dominated by men. Did people call the Rolling Stones an all-guy band? Q: What inspires the band musically? Claudia: Volume! Whatever we write, whether it's acoustic or anything, it comes into the room and gets completely turned to 11! Q: Pauley, you mentioned you hated working as an actress on your last TV show, but now you're involved in a new television project with Gene Simmons from KISS? Pauley: The new one is called "Smash" and it was created and produced by Gene Simmons. It's for VH1 and it's a comedy about the record industry in Los Angeles. The whole experience is super fun, which is completely the opposite of my experiences on other TV shows. I was burned out on TV after my last show. When the people from "Smash" called and asked me about it, I said, "I will not do another TV show unless the producers and writers will sit down with me and talk about it." Nobody talked to us on the other show and we weren't allowed to say anything. I got a call back saying, 'Gene Simmons will meet you for dinner tonight.' That was cool. We got to talk about the show and I told them, "It's very important that you guys understand that I'm in a band." And Gene Simmons says back to me, "It's very important that you understand that I'M in a band!" I thought that was great! Q: What's next for Lo-Ball? Pauley: We have our new CD for sale on our web site: www.loballrocks.com Claudia: To play more shows out of town and to spread the Lo-Ball word! pauley's photo by greg watermann