Supreme Dicks is an experimental rock group formed in 1984 by Jon Shere and Stuart Morris while students at Hampshire College.
The primary band members are Jon Shere, Daniel Oxenberg, Mark Hansen, Steve Shavel, and often Jim Spring. Other members at various times have included Holly Cat, Dan Kapelovitz, Jennifer Stefanisko, John Galvin III, Jenna Wikler, and Dave Taub. Musicians who have joined them onstage include
Beck
Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970), known mononymously as Beck, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his Experimental music, experimental and Lo-fi mus ...
and
Ariel Pink
Ariel Marcus Rosenberg ( ; born June 24, 1978), professionally known as Ariel Pink, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter whose work draws heavily from the popular music of the 1960s–1980s. His lo-fi aesthetic and home-recorded al ...
. The band has performed with
Dinosaur Jr., and toured with
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel was an American band formed by Jeff Mangum in Ruston, Louisiana, in 1989. They were active until 1998, and then from 2013 to 2015. The band's music featured a deliberately low-quality sound, influenced by indie rock and psy ...
,
Kurt Vile, and
Bonnie Prince Billy.
Their retrospective box set ''
Breathing and Not Breathing'' was released on the
Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana.
History
In 1996, in Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public resear ...
label October 18, 2011.
The band played several shows in 2012, including three at
South by Southwest
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has conti ...
, followed by a short tour with Kurt Vile.
They were joined onstage for all of these shows by Holly Cat, known for the 1987 hit "I Wanna Be Like Madonna."
The band toured Europe in 2013, and have continued to play shows sporadically, mostly in Los Angeles.
Discography[Supreme Dicks Discography](_blank)
Retrieved July 13, 2019
Studio albums
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The Unexamined Life'' – Homestead Records (1993)
*''
The Emotional Plague'' – Homestead Records (1996)
Singles and EPs
*''Sky Puddle'' (7") – Funky Mushroom Records (1992)
*''One Day West'' (7" split with One Small Good Thing) – Infinite Chug (1995)
*''
This Is Not a Dick'' EP – Runt (1996)
Compilation albums
*''
Working Man's Dick
''Working Man's Dick'' is a compilation album by the band Supreme Dicks, released through September 13, 1994 on Freek Records.Supreme Dicksat Discogs''
Track listing
Personnel
;Supreme Dicks
*Mark Hanson – bass guitar, drums, voca ...
'' – Freek Records (1994)
*''
Breathing and Not Breathing'' – Jagjaguwar Records (2011)
References
External links
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Indie rock musical groups from Massachusetts
Musical groups established in 1984
Musical groups disestablished in 1996
Musical groups reestablished in 2012
Jagjaguwar artists
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