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Jillian Iva, Bex, and Kelly Harris, better known as the San Francisco-based trio Von Iva, has had many musical tags thrust upon them. Electro pop punk. Soul rock dance. Synth rawk. Fashion-forward dance punk queens. Alt-pop. Gay icons. Dirty disco. The new purveyors of soul. A bombastic live band. Punk soul. A booty-shaking mix of soul, disco, and dirty raw rock and roll. Genre-crossing. Skuzzy and sultry. A saucy little affair. "Von Iva, the Bay Area synth rawk trio fronted by vixen soulstress Jillian Iva, whose shy curtsy couldn't disguise the band's raw energy on the L.A. toxic tale, La La . " - Spin Magazine "An *ss-shaking mix of soul, disco and dirty, raw rock & roll, this San Francisco band rattles the rafters with an aural love potion. Singer Jillian Iva struts and shimmies as if on a mission to unleash the prowling panther in us all. She gives the audience a direct connection to her soul while conjuring images of Tina Turner in her energy and performance." L.A. Weekly "If you're a fan of Le Tigre, Lesbians on Ecstasy, The Blow or The Gossip, Von Iva should be your new discovery...sure to be one amazingly lesbian rock show." - AfterEllen.com "Von Iva is pure swagger and bold soul. They're a gang, a sisterhood. Their focus is simply on playing good soul-punk music and actually knowing how it feels to feel rocknroll. Von Iva immerses themselves in white-hot rock..." - Venus Magazine "The fashion-forward trio... straddle the border between skuzzy and sultry with sweat-inducing plunges into the intersections of Gossip spit and spunk, Devo/Wire post-punk, and Timbaland gadung-a-dung-dunk. Go on now, boys and girls: surrender to the nasty." - SF Bay Guardian "Best Girl band! Believe the hype: Von Iva is the new purveyor of soul, and it's got the groove-drunk fans to prove it." - SF Weekly "The new Von Iva songs build on the best qualities of the EP and take them to an entirely new level; the band s skill with catchy as hell, dance-inducing jams is sharper than ever, and Jillian Iva s strong, soulful voice is simply captivating. Few bands exert stage presence like this one." - The Bay Bridged "Von Iva shouldn't be written off as another girl band: with fierce body-rocking beats, this powerhouse of the Bay Area scene is taking dance-punk to the masses." - The Owl Magazine "Led by singer Jillian Iva, whose pipes have the husky snarl of a roadhouse diva, if not the range to shake things up, the trio crashes synthesizers straight through the soul pantheon. Iva's a vocalist to be reckoned with...Under her leadership, Von Iva becomes a down-and-dirty soul/blues outfit.... After wallowing in nostalgia for years, soul's future may finally be nearly here." - Aversion "With the energy and inspired soul of a small town gospel choir at a Sunday morning service, Von Iva has miraculously managed to mix rock with a strong gutter-punk sound. Hailing from the Bay Area, Von Iva is sexy, unpretentious, loud and fueled with an energy that I haven't see experienced since I first heard Otis Redding belt out Try A Little Tenderness. Von Iva is here, and they've bent an entire genre in half along the way." - Rockpile