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TC were a late 80s/early 90s UK band that was seen by some as a British answer to Butthole Surfers. They also had plenty of connections with a whole number of like-minded bands like Skullflower and Godflesh. Another curious aspect of that band was their obsession with drug references (as seen in song titles). Terminal Cheesecake [...]

Brooklyn trio Parts & Labor combines tumultuous noise with enormous, triumphant melodies on their latest album, Stay Afraid. Malfunctioning electronics howl in agony, drums rupture like fireworks, battle cries are belted through a monolithic layer of distorted bass and guitar. P&L revel in day-glo noise, charred drones, punk velocity and phoenix-like hooks-a unique blast influenced [...]

Deerhoof is a San Francisco quartet, which consists of Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dietrich, Ed Rodriguez and Greg Saunier. Active since the early 90s, so far they produced more than 10 LPs for such labels as Kill Rock Stars, Menlo Park and Dual Plover. Musically, the represent a mix of feedback, distortion and pop melodicism, which [...]

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G. Edgar Livengood and Amber Valentine are Athens, GA based duo Jucifer. Formed in 1993, so far they had produced a whole number of albums for labels like Capricorn and Relapse. Their debut was 1995 "Superman/Licorice" 73, followed by a tour and a full-length - "Calling All Cars On A Vegas Strip", which was recorded in [...]

Die Kreuzen (pronounced Dee-Kroytzen) were a quartet formed in the early 80s by Dan Kubinski, Brian Egeness, Keith Brammer and Erik Tunison. While the band itself remains unknown to a larger public, they were a huge influence on a number of other bands. They debuted with four songs recorded for Charred Remains compilation, followed by three [...]

Pussy Galore were creating a new kind of Libertine rock by pissing on the corpse of whatever came before them – creaky ol' blues, rattling garage punk., arena rawk, chug metal, droning industrial noise [...]

If they were from New York, we'd be mad for them of course. (John Peel) A few seconds of any Silverfish song could wrench the most cast-iron gut, leaving a mess of entrails in its wake. (Trouser Press) Probably best-known for having Lesley Rankine (Ruby) as a lead singer, UK based Silverfish were a ferocious [...]

Nottingham, UK based FT were formed in 1989 by then 18-year named Alex Newport, along with Dave Riley and Adrian Parkin. While they never achieved any commercial success, they are still seen by many as a British equivalent of grunge bands from Seattle (even though the band itself was annoyed by such comparisons and tried [...]

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We're going to try to do something bigger than anything like rock & roll and the whole puny touring band idea. I don't know what it's going to be, we have to work that out, but it's going to go beyond the whole idea of 'punk rock' or whatever. (Bob Mould) Formed in 1979 in Minneapolis, [...]

Black humor beats black metal any day (David Sprague, Art Black) Controversially named Cop Shoot Cop formed in New York in 1987 as a trio of Tod A. David Ouimet and Phil Puleo who, beyond playing drums, also played "metal", i.e. he used found objects on his drum set. Their music was influenced by jazz and [...]

They've never made any sense, conventionally speaking, and that's what makes them fun. (Ted Hendrickson, Village Voice) Formed in Arizona in 1982, Sun City Girls (although there were no girls in that group - their name actually comes from Sun City, Arizona, a local retirement community) produced some of the most bizarre and unexplainable sounds/music ever [...]

Thanks to UbuWeb archive, 1991 compilation called "Flat" is available for download. Tracklist: 1. Vertigo: Nabrishkan Dreams 2. John Solt: As Soon As I Wake Up 3. Ken Ando Convenient Ensemble: Whump 4. Wisconsin Conservatory of Noise: 60 Seconds for Orchestra 5. Byron Coley: The Bark at Bob's Backdoor 6. Sun City Girls: Encyclopedia Vomitanica 7. Bastro: It's Mercury I've Got In My [...]

Hailing from an industrial town of Birmingham, a birthplace of the likes of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, Godflesh represented a new chapter in the story of rock music. Equally influenced by heavy metal bands like afromentioned Sabbath, as well as more experimental bands like Can and Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music", Godflesh would go [...]

MySpace Page Discogs Page Thrones And Dominions (Fan Site) Earth Bio/Discography On Sub Pop Seattle-based Earth, seen by many as godfathers of so-called drone/ambient metal genre, which spawned bands like Sunn O))), were formed in the early 90s by Dylan Carlson, along with Slim Moon and Greg Babior. They took name from an original name for Black Sabbath. Moon and [...]

Tracklist: Cop Shoot Cop - Room 429 Melvins - Vile Jesus Lizard - Nub Hammerhead - Louse Helios Creed - Sister Sarah Tad - Pig Iron Foetus - Insecticide Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Nothing Solid Laughing Hyenas - Candy Drunk Tank - Hog Ditch Pain Teens - Hands In Fire Of Cabbages And Kings - The Reign Barkmarket - Johnny Shiv Unsane - Bath Motherhead Bug - Blister Year [...]

What started out as a tiny bedroom project for Steve Albini eventually turned into one of the most mesmerizing and violent rock bands of the 80s, if not the whole music history. If rock music was criticized by many parents for being tasteless and offensive, then Big Black certainly represented the worst nightmares of responsible [...]