The Sundresses

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If there were a punk band in the swing era of American music The Sundresses would be that band...but more than that.  Cincinnati music writer, Brian Baker describes them as "sex and drugs and a double shot of my baby's Rock and Roll. They are the hangman, the rope, the trap door and the drop. They are the past, present, future and apocolypse of Rock and the Blues and Punk."    Formed in 2002 in Cincinnati as a joke, the band had its first show booked before its first practice, and The

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