Video: Ramonda Hammer, ‘Goddamn Idiot’

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Ramonda Hammer (Photo by Jason Charles)
Ramonda Hammer (Photo by Jason Charles)

L.A. rockers Ramonda Hammer derived their band name from a character on the reality TV show “Cheaters,” and the video for their single “Goddamn Idiot” — which they released right as the clock struck 12 on New Year’s Eve — riffs on the program. They’re the stars of the show here: That’s Ramonda Hammer drummer Danny Louangxay as the show’s host, frontwoman Devin Davis as the aggrieved girlfriend, guitarist Justin Geter as the cheater and, hilariously, bassist Andy Hengl as the mistress. Come for the melodrama, stay for the wigs. It’s winkingly funny, if a little bit counter to Ramonda Hammer’s whole aesthetic — crunchy, grungey, no-B.S. ’90s-style alt-rock, with Davis’ gritty vocals wailing through the quartet’s muscular hooks and rhythms. Their debut album, “Whatever That Means,” made at Sunset Sound with engineer Morgan Stratton, will be out later this year.

||| Watch: The video for “Goddamn Idiot”

||| Live: Ramonda Hammer play March 25 at HM 157 and April 6 at Harvard & Stone.