An apparently strange pairing between experimental/hardcore songwriter, producer
and guitarist Derek E. Miller and pop singer Alexis Krauss, who'd formerly
starred with teen band Rubyblue, Sleigh Bells emerged in the "noughties" to
impress audiences with their vigorous guitar riffs offset by incessant rhythms
and sugary sweet vocals. The story goes that Miller was waiting tables in a
Brazilian restaurant in Brooklyn when Alexis and her mother came in and they
fell into conversation. On discovering that Miller was a musician planning to
form a band project and was looking for a si...