How do you describe a band like Young Lords... While their sound is straight up and dirty American rock, the members of this emerging quartet have busy lives outside of their burgeoning music careers—like a cameo by lead singer Blair Van Nort and guitarist Adam Gerard in the "Get Chucked" ads, another appearance by Van Nort as a dancing silhouette for iTunes, and modeling gigs for all in the What Comes Around Goes Around catalog and the Olsens's lookbook for The Row. Translation: They're pretty. They also find time to host Solid Gold, a weekly Saturday night party at Lower East Side dance den Home Sweet Home.

But that is neither here nor there. We're giving away a pair of tickets to their May 1st show at R Bar, where they'll be playing with Robbers On High Street, Boy Crisis, Photo Atlas, The Teenage Prayers and a very special (uh, we'd almost say "virginal") guest band. Email us for your chance to win, mark your calenders for July 4th, when their debut album hits, and read on for our interview with the band!

Gen Art Pulse: Describe your music in terms of an adult beverage.
Van Nort: If our sound had to be an adult beverage, the only equivalent we know is the Long Island Iced Tea. Except we don't plan on getting sorority chicks wasted later tonight so we can get laid. We would rather go the route of John Lee Hooker; "One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer," if we had to be adult about it. Ha.

GAP: Of all the music legends people say you channel, who would be the most fun to go on a bender with?
Gerard: I think '70s Iggy Pop would be the best dude to go on a bender with. That's when he was at his most undistilled, f'ing rock 'n roll shitfit.
VN: We love Dylan the most and would have loved going on a bender with him at Newport after going electric. But if we had been partying with Iggy at Max's Kansas City in the early '70s, chances are we would have had a lot more fun and we might have even run into the Stones or Lou Reed in the bathroom.

GAP: What would you say to people who think the L.E.S. is over?
G: The Lower East Side is definitely over. Save for a couple places, you can't go anywhere without wading through a bunch of clueless, rich boy, yuppie cretins.
VN: We're over the L.E.S., man, R.I.P.

GAP: You've dabbled in modeling. Is that something you're interested in?
G: I think we all think it's hilarious how much people like to photograph us.
VN: We are probably about as interested in fashion and modeling as we are in going to see the next "High School Musical" movie. But we've done it cause we were asked nicely and we figured it would be good exposure for the band and sometimes it has been even better for our bank accounts!

- Caroline Stanley

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