This is pretty rad. They’re called The AccoLade and for a Myspace band, they actually sound good  (if you’re into bands like Evanescence). My curiosity naturally led to my their Myspace pictures, to no avail.   (Neither could I find any pictures with a quick Google search.)

Regardless, the amazing thing about this band is that they’re Saudi Arabian. And we all know how much the Saudi’s love their women. Even if this all female band sounded like Boy George after a night of binge drinking and blow jobs, they’d still rock in my book.   I’m pleasantly surprised that they actually sound good!

“In Saudi, yes, it’s a challenge,” said the group’s lead singer, Lamia, who has piercings on her left eyebrow and beneath her bottom lip. (Like other band members, she gave only her first name.) “Maybe we’re crazy. But we wanted to do something different.”

In a country where women are not allowed to drive and rarely appear in public without their faces covered, the band is very different. The prospect of female rockers clutching guitars and belting out angry lyrics about a failed relationship — the theme of “Pinocchio” — would once have been unimaginable here.

But this country’s harsh code of public morals has slowly thawed, especially in Jidda, by far the kingdom’s most cosmopolitan city. A decade ago the cane-wielding religious police terrorized women who were not dressed according to their standards. Young men with long hair were sometimes bundled off to police stations to have their heads shaved, or worse.

Come on over to the U.S. ladies.   You’re already singing in English and that’s half the battle!

Here’s their one and only single (thus far):

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