What has former Stranger music editor Emily Nokes been up to since leaving the paper? Quite a bit, it turns out. For one, she and her band Tacocat have been recording the anticipated follow-up to 2014’s NVM with producer and 2014 Stranger Genius nominee Erik Blood. It’s titled Lost Time and will be available on LP, CD, cassette, and MP3 on April 1 through Hardly Art Records. For another thing, Tacocat have performed the new theme song for Cartoon Network’s new rejuvenation of The Powerpuff Girls, which surfaces this spring. It’s hard to imagine a band better suited for this task than the energetic, humorously feminist Tacocat. After the jump, check out Tacocat’s new theme, the TV show’s old theme, and Tacocat’s new single, the slower, more brooding “Talk,” which reveals a more brooding, bulked-up, and poignant side of the band.
New Powerpuff Girls theme, “Who Got the Power?”:
Old Powerpuff Girls theme:
Tacocat’s album-release show takes place on March 31 at Chop Suey.
