The Karl Hendricks Trio

The Karl Hendricks Trio play fervently confessional indie rock within the vein of Superchunk, Pavement, and Dinosaur Jr. that combines spindly, wailing guitars with lyrics of heartbreak, dissonance, and disgust. Their intense approach matched up with honestly big hooks makes the music group stick out from simple emo and punk-pop contemporaries. The Pittsburgh, PA, group produced in 1991 with Hendricks on electric guitar, Tom Hoffman on drums, and Tim Parker on bass. The Karl Hendricks Trio performed their first display on New Year’s Eve 1991 and documented their first record a week or two afterwards. Released on LP on Hendricks’ personal label, Buick Elektra received nationwide acknowledgement and quickly sold-out. Quite prolific at that time, the music group recorded two even more albums well worth of materials in past due 1992 and early 1993, released because the Some Ladies Like Smokes 10″ as well as the trio’s second full-length, Misery and Ladies. In 1995, Merge Information re-released Some Ladies Like Smokes on Compact disc. Len Jarabeck quickly became a member of on bass and in 1996 the music group put out For some time, It Was Crazy, a furious, angst-ridden, drug-sex-depression masterpiece of catchy indie rock and roll. For 1998’s Declare Your Weapons, Caulen Kress took over bass responsibilities and Jake Leger changed Hoffman on drums. Better still and much more sardonic than its forerunner, the cover of Declare says everything: a toon Hendricks keeps a weapon to his mind amid ambivalent subway riders. From 1998 to 2000, Hendricks’ music group reformed like a quartet with Matt Jencik on second acoustic guitar and Chris Emerson on drums beneath the name the Karl Hendricks ROCK-BAND. But remarkably, the group documented only one solitary with this incarnation. In 2002, back again like a trio with Kress and Leger on drums, the music group documented The Jerks Get Once again, released on Merge in July of 2003. The recording keeps Hendricks’ wry eyesight amid squalls of crunchy acoustic guitar bliss but embraces a far more outward-looking world look at and a expansive sound.