SIRSY is powerful and strong. It’s just always been that way. The duo has unparalleled tenacity and resolve, even when living life on the road, or staring down cancer and all the uncertainty that it brings. And when cancer reared its ugly head a second time, again SIRSY emerged victorious. This band is an indestructible enigma, a lo-fi on the hi-fi, two-man quartet, an insomniac’s lullaby. It is rock ‘n’ roll. Melanie Krahmer plays the drums, mans the Roland Trigger Pad, and belts out bolts of hooks. Her voice—christ, that voice—is strictly stratospheric, but doesn’t break up upon re-entry. Guitarist Rich Libutti plays Big Star hooks with Rick Nielsen panache. The duo is headed this way at the end of March to close out Record Archive’s Women’s History Month Happy Hour series, which includes Anonymous Willpower on Wednesday, March 13 and Cinnamon Jones on Wednesday, March 20. SIRSY is your favorite band, you just don’t know it yet. I was convinced when I chit-chatted with them on the phone between tour dates. — Roc City Mag