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Called after history course notes on Abraham Lincoln, the Livonia, Michigan-based sonic manipulators His Name Is normally Alive shaped when multi-instrumentalist/producer Warren Defever (also of shockabilly group Elvis Hitler) was even now in senior high school. Defever, previous schoolmate Karin Oliver (vocals), and drummer Damian Lang released self-produced cassettes of …

A parody punk/thrash music group from Detroit, they’re most widely known for “Green Haze,” merging the music of Hendrix’s “Crimson Haze” using the lyrics towards the Green Acres theme melody.

Throughout their heyday in the late ’80s, the Dead Milkmen led a crop of college-radio jokesters that also included Mojo Nixon, King Missile, and AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF Joy, amongst others. Playing a simple, happily amateurish make of punk-pop, the Milkmen skewered well-known lifestyle, indie trend-followers, as well as the …

Created in London in 1958, vocalist/songwriter Patrik Fitzgerald ranked being among the most memorable from the so-called “punk poets.” He debuted in 1977 using the EP Protection Pin Stuck in my own Heart, a series merging the outrage of punk having a streak of optimism uncommon for its period and …