Even Worse

A WHOLE LOT WORSE were a fresh York Town punk music group whose ever-changing lineups were consistently anchored simply by founder and drummer Jack port Rabid. Denizens from the city’s pre-hardcore picture, Even Worse originally formed in Apr 1980 to be able to open up for fellow N.Con.C. punks the Stimulators. Still within their teenagers, they gigged around Manhattan because of their first year prior to the preliminary lineup fell aside and Rabid enlisted the workers who make the band’s initial documented appearance. The 1981-1982 lineup offering vocalist Rebecca Korbet, bassist Eric Keil, and guitarist Robert Weeks made an appearance regularly over the picture and added two music to ROIR’s seminal 1982 thrash compilation NY Thrash. The compilation also included Poor Brains, the Undead, CORONARY ATTACK, as well as the Beastie Children’ initial recordings. Also with this lineup, A WHOLE LOT WORSE recorded a whole LP’s worthy of of materials that continued to be unreleased throughout their short profession but was finally released on Compact disc in 2002. A fresh, very different lineup increased in middle-1982 offering Steve Waxman and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore on electric guitar along with vocalist Ken Tempkin and bassist Tim Sommer, the last mentioned of whom would shortly type experimental group Hugo Largo and be an MTV web host. This version from the music group recorded a small number of singles, the to begin which, “Mouse or Rat?,” wouldn’t find discharge until 1984. Their second one, “Departing,” was ultimately released in 1988, where time the music group had essentially known as it quits. Furthermore to developing the post-punk trio Springhouse, Rabid is well known for founding the music newspaper THE BEST Takeover. In 2017, Also Worse’s dropped 1982 record got another reissue, this time around on deluxe vinyl fabric, from Radiation Information.