Why a certain band makes it and another doesn't is a matter for conjecture though if Ten Year's Vamp doesn't crack the charts, I'll be surprised. And I will also pinpoint the problem: TYV are a mainstream rock-pop band who need a major label to push em.
Lead by Debbie Gabrione, the Albany, New York band come across as a dance rock mash up but their abilities lie in rock and roll. Debbie is a powerful singer who feels trifled with when she sings ballds, she strains to resist rocking out; in the hard fast number she seems to explode out at you.
The band claim the dreaded Paramore, the great No Doubt and the somewhere in the middle Green day> In reality, their antededent is the Runaways, Debbie sounds Koan Jett-y and comes across as a modern Lita Ford with metal replaced by a glam rock power pop. The rest of the band, fall behind her, and TYV, on the latest album Lust, with a mix of harder numbers and pop confections with backbone like "Got 2 Me".
TYV have played over 600 shows since 2006, and recorded two albums plus a live one. Songs like "Rock Stars" and the earlier "Fall" look like near misses. The bluesy come on "Pleasures" might change all that.; Albany, New York's finest come on hard and stake their claim to a piece of the Hot 100 with an assault as willing to kiss aabout as often as bite.