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Of all performers in Japan’s thriving noise-music community, the Boredoms undoubtedly had one of the most fun. Although their maniacally severe cacophony was in no way accessible listening, it had been underpinned with a gleeful love of life that helped them look for a limited (but nonetheless surprisingly wide) viewers …

Appearing out of the then-overlooked Austin, TX, punk scene of the first ’80s, the best Boys mixed two irresistible rock and roll designs into one feverish blend: raging, speedy guitars and body fat, funky backbeats. And even though they continued to produce a few so-so recordings, hardly ever really living …

While punk rock and roll was always said to be about driving the envelope, couple of post-punk bands appeared willing to move quite up to now to creatively confront their market as Big Black. The group’s guitars alternately chopped up such as a machete and surface such as a dentist’s …

Much like other talented but troubled performers such as for example Syd Barrett, Brian Wilson, and Roky Erickson, Daniel Johnston battles a daily struggle with the chronic mental disease which has plagued him almost his life time. However, despite repeated rounds of delusional behavior wherein he provides actually endangered himself …

Whether taking the stage nude, genitalia lathered in shaving cream, howling in to the mike with mousetraps dangling from his ears, or doing headstands on the membership PA stack within a platinum blonde hairpiece or shower cover, Shannon Selberg’s profession with Minneapolis’ infamous Cows was not subtle. By the first …

Destructo, psycho-grunge from Minneapolis with big fuzzed-up guitars.

Arguably probably the most infamously named band in the history of popular music — for a long time, radio found their moniker unspeakable, as well as the press deemed it unprintable — Butthole Surfers longer reigned being among the most twisted and depraved acts ever to bubble up in the …

A Bay Region prog rock-band with slight punk leanings, Triclops! started as a cooperation between Christian Beaulieu and Johnny Geek. In 2005, Beaulieu captured a present Geek was using Oakland’s Fleshies, became enamored using the singer’s vocal technique, and arranged some shows to allow them to play along with his …

Punk pranksters the Meatmen had among the nastiest, most offensive senses of laughter in every of hardcore — and that is telling something. Politically wrong prior to the term been around, frontman Tesco Vee — the main one constant within the band’s lineup — held points as gleefully ridiculous and …

This south-side of Baltimore trio of Natalio Fowler (guitar), Marc Miller (guitar), and Chritopher Freeland (drums) want their reputation to precede them so when area of the Baltimore Rowdy Collective each goes about throwing cogs within the wheel of everyday activity. This attitude enters their musical eyesight as brutal, endlessly …