Shannon Scott Selberg (born June 3, 1960) is a noise/punk rock musician known for his unusual antics on stage. Formerly the frontman for the Minneapolis-based group The Cows, Selberg provided lead vocals, trumpet, bugle and hardcore guitar.Robbins, Ira and Robin Edgerton
Cows
Trouser Press. Accessed October 4, 2007. After the dissolution of The Cows in 1998, Selberg, described by Pitchfork Media as "the Crispin Glover of the noise rock community", moved on to New York City noise-rock band,

The Heroine Sheiks The Heroine Sheiks was a New York-based Noise Rock band until early 2006. It began in 1999, as a collaboration of Shannon Selberg, George Porfiris, Norman Westberg and John Fell. Selberg emerged as a major songwriter in the complete history of t ...

, where he has added keyboards to his repertoire.Reid, Brendan. (February 10, 2003
Heroine Sheiks Siamese Pipe
Pitchfork Media. Accessed October 4, 2007.

Performance persona

In its biography of Cows, Allmusic credits Selberg's "squealing, shrieking, and general lunacy" as "the bizarre, often engaging, focus" of the band. He is known for his "legendary" antics on stage, described by the Detroit Metro Times as a "demented roadside attraction".Metro Times staff. (October 20, 2004
Head cheese
''Detroit Metro Times''. Accessed October 4, 2007. His onstage behavior has included performing naked except for strategically placed shaving cream, performing with mousetraps "dangling from his ears", wearing a business suit with stuffed animals at the crotch and a skin suit made from a love doll. In a 1992 review, '' The New York Times'' assessed Selberg's stage wear as a visual counterpart to the music of his then band, Cows, "merging defiance, pain and dark comedy".Pareles, Jon. (May 23, 1992)
Defiance and dark comedy
''The New York Times''. Accessed October 4, 2007. Selberg's general presentation with Cows was described as a mingling of "requisite menace and a disarmingly arch, lowbrow wit..., leveling both barrels at the oozing backalley/trailerpark underbelly of life."

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