After the dissolution of their rock band Christmas, Liz Cox and
Michael Cudahy renamed themselves Miss Lily Banquette and the
Millionaire, formed Combustible Edison, and hurled themselves into
cocktail-lounge retro hell. Fun for a single or two, the band
rarely transcended kitsch; it could do a perfectly good impression
of '50s exotica, but it had nothing new to add to it. "Our host is
a real scen...