By Mark Nicklawske
Kiss the Tiger records sound great in a pair of headphones, but maybe the best place to hear their work is in a loud, dark bar room with hundreds of beer-soaked fans singing along to every glorious chorus.
Released last month,
Vicious Kid, the third full-length album from the Minneapolis rockers, is a throwback to the days when acts like the Rolling Stones and the Pretenders put out records to crash the charts, overthrow the FM airwaves and fuel out-of-control North American tours. It wasn’t enough to listen to
Sticky Fingers or
Learning to Crawl - it was just as exciting to see those albums performed live.