Added on February 25, 2011
Jean Encoule
Baby You're so Repulsive , Batman , Blondie , Crime , Exalted Masters , Hank Rank , Hot Wire My Heart , Johnny Strike , Johnny Thunders , Michael Lucas , Mike Stax , NME , No Exit , punk rock , Ramones , Ricky Tractor , Ron Ripper , San Francisco , Search And Destroy , Seymour Stein , The Avengers , The Bloody Children , The Damned , The New York Dolls , The Nuns , The Space Invaders , The Tubes , The Weirdos , Traxmarx , Ugly Things
I thought, since we were called CRIME, we should feature famous criminals on our posters! First, a series of war criminals, then gangsters, then serial killers, and so on. So, I thought we should start off with Hitler…
Added on October 25, 2010
Everett True
Black Diamonds , Devil's Children , Do The Pop , Eddy Current Suppression Ring , Everett True's Australian Garage Rock Primer , Hits , Lipstick Killers , Matrimony , Missing Links , Nuggets , Pebbles , Peter Tilbrook , Pretty Ugly , Purple Hearts , Radio Birdman , Something Awful , Sunnyboys , Tales from the Aus Underground , The Birds , The Eastern Dark , The Easybeats , The Elois , The Saints , The Scientists , Tim Pittman , Tumbleweed , Ugly Things , Venom P Stinger , Wild About You , Wild Colonials , You Am I
There’s a good argument to be had for grunge beginning in Australia with The Scientists in 1979. Ask Kurt Cobain. Oh wait. You can’t.
Added on August 14, 2010
Everett True
Black Diamonds , Mess And Noise , Something Awful , Ugly Things
It would be ridiculous not to list one of the many incredible bands I unearthed in my research for my new Something Awful column. It’s called Everett True’s Australian Garage Rock Primer, and many of the recommendations came directly from a thread on the Mess And Noise message board, so props to all involved. And […]