So you know Amy Ray as one half of the Indigo Girls. What do you suppose her second solo album, Prom, would sound like? Mellow vocals and a folky guitar? Jazz standards a la Rod Stewart (ugh)? Try edgy, angst-filled Clash-worthy punked-up garage rock.

For the recording of Prom, Amy surrounded herself with a crack team of riot-grrls and punks, including Jody Bleyle and Donna Dresch from Team Dresch, former Beastie Boys/Lucious Jasckson drummer Kate Schellenbach, and gritty-rocking Daemon Records labelmates Nineteen Fourty-Five. The result of these collaborations is a fiery, hook-filled masterpiece.

With a southern rural/suburban high school as a fertile thematic background, Amy tackles issues of gender, love, maturity, discrimination, and rebellion.

PopMatters raves that, "Prom is straight-up rock and roll. And it is rock and roll at its best. It charges forward, it teases, it orchestrates grand movements, and it finds the truth in three-chord progressions."

Learn more about Amy Ray and Prom at http://daemonrecords.com/amy/