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Lunachicks
Lunachicks are an American punk rock band from New York City. The band formed in 1987 and had been on hiatus since 2000, with the band reuniting in 2019. The band cited influences including the Ramones, Kiss, and the MC5. Biography Theo Kogan, Gina Volpe, and Sydney "Squid" Silver were students at New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts when they decided to form a band. Sindi Benezra, an acquaintance of Silver, was asked to join shortly after. They rehearsed and wrote material in Gina's bedroom for about a year. Their first composition, the lengthy "Theme Song", was about killing Kogan's and Silver's English teacher. The band played their first show in 1988 with Theo's then-boyfriend Mike on the drums. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth were amongst the audience for one of their early performances. Gordon and Moore were impressed with the band and sent a demo tape to Paul Smith in England, which landed them a deal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Becky Wreck
Lunachicks are an American punk rock band from New York City. The band formed in 1987 and had been on hiatus since 2000, with the band reuniting in 2019. The band cited influences including the Ramones, Kiss, and the MC5. Biography Theo Kogan, Gina Volpe, and Sydney "Squid" Silver were students at New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts when they decided to form a band. Sindi Benezra, an acquaintance of Silver, was asked to join shortly after. They rehearsed and wrote material in Gina's bedroom for about a year. Their first composition, the lengthy "Theme Song", was about killing Kogan's and Silver's English teacher. The band played their first show in 1988 with Theo's then-boyfriend Mike on the drums. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth were amongst the audience for one of their early performances. Gordon and Moore were impressed with the band and sent a demo tape to Paul Smith in England, which landed them a deal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pretty Ugly
''Pretty Ugly'' is the fourth studio album by the American punk rock band Lunachicks. It was released by Go-Kart Records in 1997. Critical reception ''Ox-Fanzine ''Ox-Fanzine'' is a monthly punk zine from Solingen, Germany, founded in 1988. It is edited by Joachim Hiller and has had many contributors. Besides its focus on punk subculture, it also covers similar genres, reviews of comics, books and films, ...'' called ''Pretty Ugly'' "a halfway respectable stupid rock album." Track listing References External links Lunachicks on Myspace {{Authority control 1997 albums Lunachicks albums Go-Kart Records albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binge & Purge
''Binge & Purge'' is the second studio album by the American punk band the Lunachicks. It was released in 1992 via Safe House. The album was produced by Mason Temple along with the band. The album was recorded at SST, Weehawken, NJ, mixed at Quad Recording, NYC, and mastered at MDI, Toronto. Critical reception AllMusic called the album "more Poison than punk rock," writing that "the Lunachicks' follow-up to the promising ''Babysitters on Acid'' is disjointed and disappointing." ''Trouser Press'' wrote that "''Binge and Purge'', which contains sharply ironic songs about women’s self-image concerns, is the Lunachicks’ great leap forward." Simon Reynolds and Joy Press highlighted the "gleeful revelling in (rather than the repulsion from) the messy murk of female bodiliness." ''The Philadelphia Inquirer ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerk Of All Trades
''Jerk of All Trades'' is a studio album by New York City punk rock band Lunachicks. It was released in 1995 by Go-Kart Records and was produced by Ray Martin. Critical reception ''Entertainment Weekly'' called ''Jerk of All Trades'' "an album of punkoid riffs and comic, melodic choruses." ''Imbeciles at Trouser Press'' wrote: "Inoffensive songs of varying seriousness about pets, dolls, adolescent pranks and reproductive rights ... give the album a conceptual variety thoroughly blunted by the stultifying sameness of the music, a relentless barrage that furiously digs itself down a boring hole." The ''Sun Sentinel'' wrote that "roaring guitars and screaming vocals make for a noisy full-length disc, but it's fun in an infantile way." The '' Deseret News'' deemed the album "filled with image-altering guitars and hyper-intense arrangements." ''The A.V. Club ''The A.V. Club'' is an American online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babysitters On Acid
''Babysitters on Acid'' is the first album by the American punk rock band the Lunachicks. It was released in 1990 by Blast First Records. It was re-released in 2001 by Go-Kart Records. Critical reception AllMusic wrote that the album "didn't have much to say, but said it with enough base humor and zealous punk antics to keep the spirit of comic anti-revolution alive." '' Exclaim!'', reviewing the reissue, called it "a dopey and young record that basically defies serious criticism." ''Louder Sound ''Classic Rock'' is a British magazine and website dedicated to rock music, owned and published by Future. It was launched in October 1998 and is based in London. The magazine publishes 13 editions a year, mainly covering rock bands from the 60, ...'' deemed the album "a day-glo classic of ramshackle excess and high-concept absurdity." Track listing All songs by Theo Kogan, except where noted. #"Jan Brady" - 3:09 #"Glad I'm Not Yew" - 2:28 #"Babysitters on Acid" - 4:07 #"Makin' I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo & The Skyscrapers
Theo & the Skyscrapers are an experimental electronic band from New York City consisting of Theo Kogan (formerly of the band Lunachicks, and also a model and actress), Sean Pierce (of Toilet Böys Toilet Böys are an American rock and roll band from New York City, United States. The band's original line-up is made up of Miss Guy, Sean Pierce, Electric Eddie, Rocket, and Adam Vomit. Toilet Böys have toured world-wide supporting musical ac ...), Chris Kling and Dimitry Makhnosky. Their sound has also been described as "a cross breed of new wave and metal". and a "gloriously trashy technicolor electro-clash disco cabaret, with quirky art-punk and metallic overtones." In the fall of 2003, Theo and her husband, Sean, met Chris and Dimitry and Theo & the Skyscrapers was formed. The band released '' Theo and the Skyscrapers'' in 2006 and '' So Many Ways to Die'' in 2007 on their record label, Dark Daddy Records. The band are involved in a video installation/rock performance ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Kogan
Theo Kogan (born December 23, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, model, and actress. She is best known as the vocalist of the all-girl punk band Lunachicks. She also sang in the dance/electronic band Theo & the Skyscrapers. She also has her own cosmetic line, Armour Beauty. She is married to Sean Pierce, the guitarist of Theo & the Skyscrapers and the Toilet Böys. Career Kogan has had roles in movies such as ''Zoolander'', '' Rock Star'', ''In the Cut'', ''Bringing Out the Dead'', and '' High Times' Potluck''. She has also appeared on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', ''Third Watch'' and ''The Jon Stewart Show''. She has done voice over work for ''Live Freaky! Die Freaky!'' Kogan can also be seen in ''Screen Test'', a Broadway musical directed by Rob Roth which her band Theo and the Skyscrapers composed the music for. Kogan has modelled in ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Rimmel Rimmel (commonly known as Rimmel London) is a British multinational cosmetics bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Schellenbach
Kate Schellenbach (born January 5, 1966) is an American musician and television producer. She is the drummer of Luscious Jackson and was a founding drummer of the Beastie Boys. Born in New York City, she played with the Beastie Boys from 1981 to 1984, and drummed for Luscious Jackson until the band broke up in spring of 2000, and again when they re-formed in 2011. Schellenbach was also the drummer for the punk band the Lunachicks, during early 1993 for a very short period of time, before Chip English was recruited. She was later an Emmy Award-winning segment producer on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' appearing on screen on a show first aired on December 4, 2007, playing the bongos with host Ellen DeGeneres. She has also worked as a producer on ''Lopez Tonight'', ''Kathy'', '' Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings'', ''Chelsea Lately'', '' Hello Ross'', and currently ''The Late Late Show with James Corden''. Personal life Schellenbach attended New York City's math and science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go Kart Records
Go-Kart Records is an independent record label specializing in punk rock located in New York City that was most active from 1995 to 2005. It also has a European division in Mannheim, Germany. History In its May 1999 issue, '' Guitar World'' magazine listed Go-Kart as one of the "twelve most influential forces in punk rock today" along with Epitaph Records, Ian MacKaye, Jello Biafra and NOFX. In 2003 the label released the first commercially available MP3 CdD entitled the "Go-kart MP300 Raceway." All-music called the release a, "revolution in a jewel case." It contained 300 songs from 150 bands and included an MP3 player and instructions on how to burn the songs to CD. In 2004, the company opened an office in Los Angeles and started an offshoot division to release independent films under the moniker Go-kart Films. The Los Angeles office closed in 2008. From 2006–2007, label owner Greg Ross hosted a show entitled ''Radio Free Greg'' on Punk Radio Cast (punkradiocast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blast First
Blast First is a sub label of one-time independent record label Mute Records, founded in approximately 1985. It was named after a phrase taken from the first number of the radical Vorticist journal ''Blast'', published by Wyndham Lewis in 1914. Lewis's "Manifesto" begins with the words "BLAST First (from politeness) ENGLAND". History The label was founded by Paul Smith to give UK release to albums by Sonic Youth, a US band with which he was then working closely. It went on to feature more hardcore rock bands than the master label of its synthpop-oriented parent company. Before Mute Records was sold to the EMI group, Blast First fit into the company's profile, which included labels such as the Fine Line and the Grey Area. The labels employees included the sisters Pat and Liz Naylor, and the novelist Alistair Fruish. The label released a range of alternative music from Butthole Surfers and Labradford through Suicide and Sonic Youth to the William Fairey Band's ''Acid Brass' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riot Grrrl
Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began during the early 1990s within the United States in Olympia, Washington and the greater Pacific Northwest and has expanded to at least 26 other countries. Riot grrrl is a subcultural movement that combines feminism, punk music, and politics. It is often associated with third-wave feminism, which is sometimes seen as having grown out of the riot grrrl movement and has recently been seen in fourth-wave feminist punk music that rose in the 2010s. The genre has also been described as coming out of indie rock, with the punk scene serving as an inspiration for a movement in which women could express anger, rage, and frustration, emotions considered socially acceptable for male songwriters but less common for women. Riot grrrl songs often addressed issues such as rape, domestic abuse, sexuality, racism, patriarchy, classism, anarchism, and female empowerment. Primary bands most associated with the movement by media in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston (band)
Boston is an American rock band formed by Tom Scholz in Boston, Massachusetts, that had its most commercial successes during the 1970s and '80s. The band's core members included multi-instrumentalist, founder and leader Tom Scholz, who played the majority of instruments on the band's 1976 debut album, and lead vocalist Brad Delp, among a number of other musicians who varied from album to album. Boston's best-known songs include: " More Than a Feeling", " Peace of Mind", "Foreplay/Long Time", "Rock and Roll Band", " Smokin'", " Don't Look Back", "A Man I'll Never Be", "Hitch a Ride", "Party", and "Amanda". The band has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, including 31 million units sold in the United States, of which 17 million were the band's 1976 self-titled debut album and seven million copies of the band's second studio album, '' Don't Look Back'' (1978), making the group some of the world's best-selling artists. Altogether, the band has released six studio albums i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
