“With the current retro-focus aimed so solidly on the Reagan era, it seems like no new band can release an album that isn't immediately equated with new wave forbears-- unless, of course, they're a garage rock band. I'm as guilty of this as the next person, but pigeonholing Washington. DC's Dame Fate in a musical niche roughly halfway between The Pretenders and Siouxsie and the Banshees, not only d”