"St. Valentine's Day Massacre" is the live album from Niagara and the Hitmen, recorded in Australia on one special night in February 2008. Today she's a well-known artist with a worldwide following, but for most of the 1970s and a good part of the '80s, Niagara was singer for Destroy All Monsters, an amazing collision of art rock and Stooges skronk. Starting life as an atonal musical experiment by a group of film students with no grounding in rock and roll, DAM developed an altogether different sensibility with the recruitment of guitarist Ron Asheton, late of the Stooges. The band unleashed a succession of singles, toured the Midwestern US, Canada and Europe and carved out a committed audience of fanatics still revelling in the wake of punk rock's wave and the legacy of forebears like the Stooges. But fast forward 16 years... It's 2007 and Niagara had long retired from the stage and returned to Australia for an exhibition of her art. Masuak and Kannis had been hatching a plan to re-form the Hitmen. It was an opportunity too good to miss. The re-constituted Hitmen set the scene in a suburban beer barn called The Crest Hotel, in the southern reaches of Sydney, Australia. Their ranks now included Kannis, Masuak, longtime comrade Tony "The Kid" Robertson on bass, ex-Fun Things/Screaming Tribesmen drummer Murray Shepherd and Kannis solo band guitar sideman Tony Jukic. A crack line-up. They played a riotous mini-set, lead vocalist Kannis departedÉand Niagara materialised. Now you can hear the result.