by Josh Cook
The front page picture on the Ticks’ website makes a pretty clear statement:
“We could be Cape Cod soccer moms looking to teach their punk rock rebelling sons what the Go-Gos really were all about, or we could be a band that got started right after Bikini Kill came through the East coast, and we haven’t stopped rocking through college and career and family and the Cape.”
They’re either escaping or they’re still running. Of course, Sue Lavallee, Emma Levy and Julie Randall aren’t running or escaping –they’re digging into the skin of the Cape Cod music scene, with a rock sound like a summer breeze off the beach.