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The Superions found Earth to dominate the earth with delirious dance music. They began by taking on the body of B-52s frontman Fred Schneider, key pad and electrical drum participant Noah Brodie, and programmer Dan Marshall, and generating an album’s well worth of Xmas music known as Destination…Xmas! But seriously, …

Within the surf revival motion of the first ’90s (Shadowy Men on the Shadowy World, Laika & the Cosmonauts, the re-emergence of the fantastic Dick Dale, etc.), Auburn’s Guy or Astro-man? specializes inside a somewhat different variation around the genre, self-described as space-age browse. Created in 1992, the quartet originally …

About two hours from Seattle, in the seaside town of Bellingham, WA, the Mono Men pursued their campy retreat to ’60s rock revivalism via the Sonics, the Wailers, and plenty of teen exploitation flicks, but avoid being fooled — their music is loud, fast, and aggressive. The Mono Guys doubled …

The Austin, Texas-based garage-punk quintet Lord Great Fixers was the mid-’90s project of longtime indie vet Tim Kerr, an alumnus of rings ranging from the best Boys towards the Monkeywrench (the blues-grunge side project of members of Mudhoney and other Seattle scenesters). Also made up of vocalist Mike Carroll, guitarist …

Pittsburgh mathematics rockers Don Caballero were among the initial rings to expand on the task of genre innovators like Bastro, Bitch Magnet, and (specifically) Slint. Their music was completely instrumental, even though their electric guitar interplay was as complicated and dissonant as some of their peers, the true driving power …

Using a fashion sense of Don Ho along with a quirk of instrumental lounge-surf, The Tiki Tones were never seen without their Hawaiian button up shirts. Comprising Koro (drums), Ku (bass), Lono (electric guitar) and Lord Wahini (body organ), Doctor Wish Information debuted their initial full-length Idol Pleasures in 1996. …

Southern garbage rockers the Quadrajets originally assembled frontman the Cheetah, guitarists Roman Hardwick P.We. and Jerome J. Jerome, bassist Catfish Dish and drummer Crimson Truth (the last mentioned replaced with time by K.Con. Truck Zant). The music group debuted within the springtime of 1995 using the Sympathy for the Record …

After separating using their even more conventional rock and roll bands (White Zombie and NY Loose respectively) within the mid-’90s, bassist Sean Yseult and guitarist/vocalist Brijette Western dawned dual surf guitars and glittery horror outfits, and formed the unlikely joke-band Famous Monsters. After differing degrees of achievement (very much for …

Eddie Angel is among the guitarists within the instrumental garage area/browse/rock and roll & move revival music group Los Straitjackets. In 1993 he documented a solo recording, Eddie Angel’s Acoustic guitar Party, which revived the rawer noises of past due-’50s and early-’60s instrumental and browse rock, with Hyperlink Wray being …

The Kustard Kings will be the brainchild of Dave Terhune, a multi-instrumentalist and singer that is a normal in the brand new York club scene for a long time. The band 1st came into being in 1992 like a variation around the traditional instrumentalists from the ’60s. He recruited bassist …