Playful, sexy, and eminently danceable, Love Grenades are a new, unifying force in independent music – in its most literal interpretation. The brainchild of 25-year-old mastermind Elizabeth Wight, Love Grenades is the unlikely beat-driven collision of electro-pop, Italo disco, and punk that’s winning over audiences in Los Angeles, and as far away as Mexico City and Berlin.

Ever since the band began playing two years ago, Love Grenades have packed LA’s hippest venues, including Spaceland, The Echo, The Roxy, and Silverlake Lounge. Tracks such as “Tigers in the Fire” and “Young Lovers” have been on heavy rotation in LA’s underground dance clubs well before their official release, in addition to making playlists on radio stations KXLU, KCRW, INDIE 103.1, and KROQ’s “Rodney on the ROQ.” LA Weekly has called the band “as scorching as they are seductive – a collective soundtrack for making out one-on-one or maxing out with a hundred sweaty strangers on the dance floor.” Metromix Los Angeles concurs, “We’ve fallen in love with Liz Wight and her Love Grenades. It’s easy to do, given her sultry good looks and sleek, dance-poppy tunes.”

Jesse Rogg was impressed enough by Elizabeth’s demos that he offered to release her debut EP on his label, Modus Vivendi. The result was 2008’s Tigers in the Fire, a high-energy collection of dance-infused tunes of heartbreak, defiant independence, and life in Los Angeles.

One would think that an accomplished work such as Tigers in the Fire would be enough for a young up-and-coming starlet like Elizabeth Wight – but the Love Grenades founder has higher aspirations. “Ever since I was young, there’s been very little music in pop culture that I felt was inspiring or great for women,” she says. “So I want to be someone in pop culture who’d be there to inspire girls, and help them not feel so alienated. I’m writing for women of all ages, whether they’re 15-year old girls or someone in their 40s. In fact, I’d love for anyone to feel inspired by my music.”

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