Artist: The Prefab Messiahs

The Prefab Messiahs From: The Past, United States The past is a veritable treasure trove of brilliant unheard, unknown and downright unbelievable music. Thanks to the internet it is becoming easier to discover sounds that have been hiding their light under bloody large bushels for decades. Tonight's featured band the unbelievably amazing Prefab Messiahs formed way back in the early 80s and have been have been missing in action for far too long. [...]

When I first listened to Peace Love & Alienation , without knowing a thing about The Prefab Messiahs , I thought I had downloaded the wrong album by mistake. This was real garage-pop from the 80's. After a brief peruse of the internet, I came to the conclusion that these guys are the longest-lived band to last only two years (1981-1983). Three ambitious Clark U. undergrads with barebones rigs, no money, and a lot to say combined punk, surf-rock, and garage-pop to create an unaccredited style of lo-fi pop-rock that is still relevant 30 years later, [...]

Here's a name I've not heard in years. The psychedelia boom of the mid '80s is a little understood phenomenon. Some commentators attribute it to a psychic overspill from the drug consumption of Julian Cope, a hallucinatory overload that spread out causing a huge increase in the sales of Vox wah-wah pedals. Some say it is rather that culture operates under the same principles as the Gaia hypothesis, and it was a necessary and natural reaction against the social vandalism of Reagan and Thatcher. And there are others who tell you not to be so bloody [...]

• The Prefab Messiahs - Desperately Happy

Killer show tonight! We got into the details of the T.T. The Bear's Place renovations, played the entire Creaturos demo -- all 13 minutes, son -- and announced our ROOM PARTY next Sunday at the... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

Thirty years ago, punk-Dada terrorists Seth "Xerox" Feinberg and "Egg" Al Nidle posted up Clark University's campus with flyers proclaiming, "talentless guitarist and drummer seeking bassist and lead guitarist to form post-punk new wave pop pseudo-psychedelic band." Mike "Doc" Michaud and Kris "Tripp" Thompson replied, and The Prefab Messiahs formed as the agent provocateurs of the Worchester, Massachusetts underground. They denounced Regan-era consumerism and conformity, aiming to revolutionize pop music while simultaneously throwing a "plastic culture" back in its face. Beyond-ironically, they heralding Ronald McDonald and The Pillsbury Doughboy as the prefabricated messiahs of society at large. [...]

The Prefab Messiahs – Franz Kafka b/w Prefab Sun 7" A little nugget from the past via Almost Ready Records, the people who've brought you those great little World's Lousy comps. The band occupies a pre/post wasteland between punk, paisley and psych revivals that ends up lumping them into the too late for glory too soon for fame kind of category. They've got some of the same impulses that made The Twinkeyz heroes to a scant few and even caught the ear of Bobb Trimble (who missed his own share of glory in [...]

• The Prefab Messiahs - Prefab Sun