Artist Ssion

A party band suited for only the weirdest, diciest parties, The Ssion crept onto most people’s radars with a bizarre concept album (allegedly about an animal band hitting it big) and live shows full of chicken costumes and cardboard instruments. They’ve opened for Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Liars, but the art-minded pranksters in The Ssion seem more intrigued by the go-go wiggle of The B-52s than by loud, rakish punk. The group’s last album, Boy, was a sleaze-disco ode to the joys of being gay, which it recently translated into a film of the same name—a loosely connected montage of music videos about childhood friends reconnecting in a world of seedy underground clubs and fortune-telling drag queens.

Updated 12/15/2010