The Earaches

The Earaches will be the Pacific Northwest’s strongest exponents of pure Nuggets-style high-octane garage area rock since Mudhoney’s early singles, with an extra dosage of political fury that recalls the MC5. The group originally created in 1998 beneath the name the Reckless Bastards, with vocalist and guitarist August Henrich, guitarist Zak Schneider, bassist Joe Kilbourne, and drummer Alan Wright gigging around Seattle and putting occasional songs on regional compilation discs. Changing their name towards the Earaches, the group produced their full-length debut with 2003’s Fist Battles, Hot Love. Regrettably, tragedy strike the music group in June 2004 when Wright — also the band’s supervisor and a longtime Seattle picture fixture like a journalist and fanzine publisher — dedicated suicide. Local maker Steve Jones overran the drum throne as well as the Earaches rebounded using the past due 2004 solitary “Independence Fries,” a razor-sharp castigation from the Bush administration. That politics bent was amplified on 2005’s Obtain the Trend Out of YOUR MIND. Kilbourne remaining the music group in 2006 and was changed by Oni Timm for his or her third album, Period on Fire.