A couple months ago, in the dark basement of the NY rock den, Santo's Party House, an impossibly skinny strawberry-blonde model came on stage in stilettos and a leather jacket, looking like Agyness Deyn's welsh cousin. Though she was visibly nervous through her debut, Lissy Trullie's punked power and f*ck-all nonchalance was appealing, ie: she clearly grew up listening more to The Clash than The Beatles. Throughout the short set she drawled out her lyrics slowly while frenetically strumming at her electric guitar (that dwarfed her). While truth told, on occasion her voice hovered a bit flat and icy and the set battled some sound issues, she seduced the industry-filled crowd, especially with the kickass Hot Chip cover.

At the same time, to inaugurate her into the rock scene, the showcase featured an impressive line-up of rockers (all her buddies) starting with Mark Ronson-endorsed Allido band, The Rumble Strips, who spawned happy-go-lucky fuzzy-guitar hooks to convivial pop beats. Towards the end of the night, Adam Green came onstage and flirted with the crowd with acoustic guitar stream-of-conscious ballads and a few sporadic crowd-surfs. The whole time, Mr Ronson was in the background, DJing and pouting in his slick suit. Needles to say, Lissy Trullie introduced herself to NYC with too-cool-to-eat rock-chic attitude. After all, so few chicks can pull off punked-out garage rock but Lissy can. (Um, and it helps that she's a hot lesbian model who likes leather and calls Ronson on a regular basis. Right.)

On Feb 17th 2009, her first EP is to be released state-side if you dig it. Check her out for yourself at her MySpace.