Longstocking

The defiantly out queer-punk music group Longstocking unfortunately just lasted for just one album, 1997’s excellent A long time ago Called Right now, but throughout their short two-year run, the Los Angeles-based quartet added a smart sort of ’60s-design pop polish to some scene that sometimes ran a little too much toward willful amateurism. Previous Oiler and Fleabag vocalist/guitarist Tamala Poljak, whose musical preferences have huge variations from your Shangri-Las to Gang of Four to Stereolab, created Longstocking like a guitar-drums duo in 1995. Following a couple of months, the lineup solidified into Poljak, guitarist Michelle Stevenson, bassist David Gomez, and drummer Sherri Solinger. Following a couple of 7″ EPs and a small number of compilation looks, Longstocking released A long time ago Called Right now on Donna Dresch’s Chainsaw label in past due 1997. Regrettably, by enough time the record arrived, Longstocking had split; Poljak had adopted a romantic relationship to Olympia, WA, as the additional bandmembers had remained in LA. Poljak joined Group Dresch briefly, but came back to LA in 1999 to create a new music group known as the Automaticans.