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"   Photo: The Ettes  That The Ettes have style is almost beside the point\u2014their skuzzy `60s girl group sound (dubbed &amp;quot;beat punk&amp;quot;) is reason enough to give the Nashville band a listen. But even with a play-on-repeat new album, the fast and furious Wicked Will, it&amp;#039;s hard to ignore the fact that this is a trio (comprised of singer Lindsay &amp;quot;Coco&amp;quot; Hames, drummer Maria &amp;quot;Poni&amp;quot; Silver, and bassist Jeremy &amp;quot;Jem&amp;quot; Cohen) that looks as good as they sound. You can see it in person this week, when the band hits the road with Imelda May\u2014or in stores starting this winter, with the launch of drummer Poni&amp;#039;s debut clothing line Black by Maria Silver. We caught up with Poni and Coco to find out their tour packing tips and beauty essentials. ELLE: What do you have to do to prepare for a tour? Poni: Lots of laundry! Coco: We wash all of our socks. We kind of have this pattern of going for a drink the night before we leave, just to all get on the same page, and then we totally get trashed and are super hung-over the next day. For some reason it makes the tour kick-off, which is stressful, really easy. ELLE: Is there anything you always take with you on the road? C: Makeup-wise, MAC&amp;#039;s liquid black eye liner\u2014we both have that. We&amp;#039;ve tried everything, and that&amp;#039;s what stays. I&amp;#039;ve got my totally worn-out Biba boots\u2014I don&amp;#039;t know if they&amp;#039;re going to make it another tour. They&amp;#039;re faux suede, knee-high, and late-`60s looking...they&amp;#039;re great for stage, and they have a really great heel. P: Did you get the heel fixed? ELLE: What? C: The heel fell off! I think it just kicked it off somewhere. ELLE: Is there any sort of planning as to what you&amp;#039;re going to where onstage? C: We&amp;#039;re all on the same page. Poni is a designer\u2014she went to FIT\u2014so I like to consult her on fashion things, but I guess we&amp;#039;re always on the road and always working together or in London together recording, so we encounter a lot of the same inspiration. P: It is mostly black\u2014which helps with laundry. C: I think the last tour, we just wore one thing every night, and did laundry when we could. ELLE: Do you make a lot of shopping pit-stops while on tour? P: We try to get people to stop and shop at places, but we don&amp;#039;t always get to. We love to shop at random vintage places. C: I got that great bag in San Francisco\u2014it&amp;#039;s this suede, fringe Pocahontas-looking purse at Wasteland. I was pretty excited. I [also] picked up a really cool comic book sweatshirt from Target, from the little boys&amp;#039; department. I&amp;#039;ve been wearing it every day. P: I got those nice Frye heels in San Francisco, too. And massive Gucci sunglasses from a Neiman Marcus outlet in Atlanta\u2014we like the deals whenever we&amp;#039;re on the road! C: We keep our eyes peeled\u2014we will run off and try [to shop] and our tour manager is like, `God damn it girls, come back here!&amp;#039; We keep our eyes open and our imaginations engaged. ELLE: Poni, what inspired you to launch your own clothing line? P: I&amp;#039;ve been wanting to do this for a while. It wasn&amp;#039;t a conscious decision, I just started making clothes and was like, `Oh, I should start a line.&amp;#039; My approach to fashion is, I don&amp;#039;t want to say a throwback kind of thing, but it&amp;#039;s definitely a combination of my Hispanic background, a bit dancewear, and Spanish Harlem in the `70s. Halston [era] Bianca Jagger, that&amp;#039;s how the first collection started out. I just like making beautiful clothes, and I&amp;#039;m not into making basics\u2014I&amp;#039;m making a shit ton of statement pieces to mix in with your own stuff. ELLE: Who is your music style icon? P: As far as drummers, Keith Moon. I do love Jimi [Hendrix] and Prince. C: Debbie Harry\u2014I don&amp;#039;t think anyone can top her, she&amp;#039;s so great. And Dolly Parton! You pretty much can&amp;#039;t beat them. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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