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A'S | TROUSER PRESS
One of the first bands on Philadelphia's new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A's made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush's Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group's first album, Bush shows an equal aptitude for playing the comedian ("Tee RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignation GUN CLUB | TROUSER PRESS Gun Club. Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club. From his days as a peroxided, Debbie Harry-fixated Los Angeles teen-punk, through a lengthy era when he seemed convinced he could channel the spirit of Robert Johnson, to a more recent probe of the seedier side of continental balladry, Pierce — who died of aNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and VOICE FARM | TROUSER PRESS Voice Farm. On The World We Live In, San Francisco’s Voice Farm was a trio — two guys who appear on the front cover dressed only in their underpants, and a less-exposed female — employing synthesizers, vocals and acoustic percussion to weave moody instrumentals, some of which are paired with incisive, intelligent(and, in one case
EYELESS IN GAZA
Named for Aldous Huxley's ode to pacifist integrity, England's Eyeless in Gaza consisted of guitarist Martyn Bates and bassist/keyboardist Peter Becker, both credited with voice and instrumentation on the first album, a better- than-decent stab at hook-filled spareness. The tasteful music is marred JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom Waits WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often and TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices. TROUSER PRESS MAGAZINE ARCHIVE Trouser Press Magazine Archive. Trouser Press magazine published a total of 95 issues between 1974 and 1984. They’ve all been scanned and posted here. The contents are searchable within each issue. Click here for an index of every review, article, column, flexiA'S | TROUSER PRESS
One of the first bands on Philadelphia's new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A's made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush's Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group's first album, Bush shows an equal aptitude for playing the comedian ("Tee GUN CLUB | TROUSER PRESS Gun Club. Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club. From his days as a peroxided, Debbie Harry-fixated Los Angeles teen-punk, through a lengthy era when he seemed convinced he could channel the spirit of Robert Johnson, to a more recent probe of the seedier side of continental balladry, Pierce — who died of a RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and VOICE FARM | TROUSER PRESS Voice Farm. On The World We Live In, San Francisco’s Voice Farm was a trio — two guys who appear on the front cover dressed only in their underpants, and a less-exposed female — employing synthesizers, vocals and acoustic percussion to weave moody instrumentals, some of which are paired with incisive, intelligent(and, in one case
EYELESS IN GAZA
Named for Aldous Huxley's ode to pacifist integrity, England's Eyeless in Gaza consisted of guitarist Martyn Bates and bassist/keyboardist Peter Becker, both credited with voice and instrumentation on the first album, a better- than-decent stab at hook-filled spareness. The tasteful music is marred JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom Waits WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often andABC | TROUSER PRESS
ABC revolves around the talented but often misguided Martin Fry, a onetime fanzine editor whose detailed notions of style include, on the Sheffield band's first album, setting his own Ferry/Bowiesque vocals in lustrous pop production (by Trevor Horn) laden with keyboards and strings, mostly to a sup VOICE FARM | TROUSER PRESS Voice Farm. On The World We Live In, San Francisco’s Voice Farm was a trio — two guys who appear on the front cover dressed only in their underpants, and a less-exposed female — employing synthesizers, vocals and acoustic percussion to weave moody instrumentals, some of which are paired with incisive, intelligent(and, in one case
NIGHTINGALES
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GO TO BLAZES
Go To Blazes. Philadelphia four-piece Go to Blazes specializes in roadhouse rock’n’roll — whiskey-kissed shuffles and sour blues and Stones-influenced stomps that have a way of making everyday sorrows seem heroic. Known drinking buddies of Eric “Roscoe” Ambel (producer of their recent recordings), Go to Blazes belongs to thatloose
FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim PaJOY DIVISION
The surviving trio, with one new member, continued, finding far greater commercial success as New Order. Following the self-release of the 7-inch An Ideal for Living, a skillful but rather unexceptional quartet of Bowie-influenced guitar punk songs, Joy Division did tracks for a local compilation and then signed with the incipient Factorylabel.
POISON GIRLS
The Poison Girls — a wise post-adolescent poet/singer/guitarist who wittily calls herself Vi Subversa plus a male backing band — are politicized musical agitators employing rock (minimalist at the start but improving steadily to the point of sophisticated diversity lateron) as their mea
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Los Angeles quartet Red Temple Spirits skillfully mixes tribal post-punk influences — mid-period Cure, Savage Republic, early (Death) Cult — with a loving dose of lysergic psychedelia (Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson are particular touchstones). Bassist Dino Paredes (formerly of Psi-Com, w TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices. TROUSER PRESS MAGAZINE ARCHIVE Trouser Press Magazine Archive. Trouser Press magazine published a total of 95 issues between 1974 and 1984. They’ve all been scanned and posted here. The contents are searchable within each issue. Click here for an index of every review, article, column, flexiA'S | TROUSER PRESS
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Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and VOICE FARM | TROUSER PRESS Voice Farm. On The World We Live In, San Francisco’s Voice Farm was a trio — two guys who appear on the front cover dressed only in their underpants, and a less-exposed female — employing synthesizers, vocals and acoustic percussion to weave moody instrumentals, some of which are paired with incisive, intelligent(and, in one case
EYELESS IN GAZA
Named for Aldous Huxley's ode to pacifist integrity, England's Eyeless in Gaza consisted of guitarist Martyn Bates and bassist/keyboardist Peter Becker, both credited with voice and instrumentation on the first album, a better- than-decent stab at hook-filled spareness. The tasteful music is marred JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom Waits WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often and TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices. TROUSER PRESS MAGAZINE ARCHIVE Trouser Press Magazine Archive. Trouser Press magazine published a total of 95 issues between 1974 and 1984. They’ve all been scanned and posted here. The contents are searchable within each issue. Click here for an index of every review, article, column, flexiA'S | TROUSER PRESS
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Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and VOICE FARM | TROUSER PRESS Voice Farm. On The World We Live In, San Francisco’s Voice Farm was a trio — two guys who appear on the front cover dressed only in their underpants, and a less-exposed female — employing synthesizers, vocals and acoustic percussion to weave moody instrumentals, some of which are paired with incisive, intelligent(and, in one case
EYELESS IN GAZA
Named for Aldous Huxley's ode to pacifist integrity, England's Eyeless in Gaza consisted of guitarist Martyn Bates and bassist/keyboardist Peter Becker, both credited with voice and instrumentation on the first album, a better- than-decent stab at hook-filled spareness. The tasteful music is marred JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom Waits WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often andABC | TROUSER PRESS
ABC revolves around the talented but often misguided Martin Fry, a onetime fanzine editor whose detailed notions of style include, on the Sheffield band's first album, setting his own Ferry/Bowiesque vocals in lustrous pop production (by Trevor Horn) laden with keyboards and strings, mostly to a sup VOICE FARM | TROUSER PRESS Voice Farm. On The World We Live In, San Francisco’s Voice Farm was a trio — two guys who appear on the front cover dressed only in their underpants, and a less-exposed female — employing synthesizers, vocals and acoustic percussion to weave moody instrumentals, some of which are paired with incisive, intelligent(and, in one case
NIGHTINGALES
Trebly guitar scrubs and busy drumming, both at a hyper pace, support Robert Lloyd's snide, self-mocking, self- pitying, annoyed, despairing, sarcastically scathing and generally intelligent (if not always intelligible) tirades in the Nightingales. (Dry wit, too.) This boy from Birmingham has a lot MOTÖRHEAD | TROUSER PRESS The early pigeonholing of Motörhead as punks may have stemmed from their loud'n'fast playing, their leather jackets, engagements opening for the Damned and their early releases on a UK indie label, but then, as now, the band was engaged in its own hard-rockin' rebellion —slashing guitar,
GO TO BLAZES
Go To Blazes. Philadelphia four-piece Go to Blazes specializes in roadhouse rock’n’roll — whiskey-kissed shuffles and sour blues and Stones-influenced stomps that have a way of making everyday sorrows seem heroic. Known drinking buddies of Eric “Roscoe” Ambel (producer of their recent recordings), Go to Blazes belongs to thatloose
FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim PaJOY DIVISION
The surviving trio, with one new member, continued, finding far greater commercial success as New Order. Following the self-release of the 7-inch An Ideal for Living, a skillful but rather unexceptional quartet of Bowie-influenced guitar punk songs, Joy Division did tracks for a local compilation and then signed with the incipient Factorylabel.
POISON GIRLS
The Poison Girls — a wise post-adolescent poet/singer/guitarist who wittily calls herself Vi Subversa plus a male backing band — are politicized musical agitators employing rock (minimalist at the start but improving steadily to the point of sophisticated diversity lateron) as their mea
GANG GREEN | TROUSER PRESS Gang Green. Led by singer/guitarist Chris Doherty, Boston’s greatest beer-soaked contribution to the skate-punk genre began as a faster’n’louder hardcore trio, with seven sketchy smears (e.g., “Snob,” “Kill a Commie” and “Rabies”) averaging under a minute each on a 1982 scene compilation.RED TEMPLE SPIRITS
Los Angeles quartet Red Temple Spirits skillfully mixes tribal post-punk influences — mid-period Cure, Savage Republic, early (Death) Cult — with a loving dose of lysergic psychedelia (Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson are particular touchstones). Bassist Dino Paredes (formerly of Psi-Com, w TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices.A'S | TROUSER PRESS
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DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t GUN CLUB | TROUSER PRESS Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club. From his days as a peroxided, Debbie Harry-fixated Los Angeles teen-punk, through a lengthy era when he seemed convinced he could channel the spirit of Robert Johnson, to a more recent probe of the seedier side of continental balladry, Pierce — who died of a cerebral blood clot in Utah at the end of March 1996 — always NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim Pa JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom WaitsNURSE WITH WOUND
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Man or Astro-Man? Considering how many garage bands have been formed by those whose heads were shrunk by spending their youth glued to the TV watching monster movies, it stands to reason that trashy science-fiction would have polluted its share of minds as well. Taking a few obvious cues from Devo but going far deeper into the land ofcheap and
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A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t GUN CLUB | TROUSER PRESS Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club. From his days as a peroxided, Debbie Harry-fixated Los Angeles teen-punk, through a lengthy era when he seemed convinced he could channel the spirit of Robert Johnson, to a more recent probe of the seedier side of continental balladry, Pierce — who died of a cerebral blood clot in Utah at the end of March 1996 — always NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim Pa JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom WaitsNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous andMAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
Man or Astro-Man? Considering how many garage bands have been formed by those whose heads were shrunk by spending their youth glued to the TV watching monster movies, it stands to reason that trashy science-fiction would have polluted its share of minds as well. Taking a few obvious cues from Devo but going far deeper into the land ofcheap and
WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often andNURSE WITH WOUND
As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and frequently entertaining self-released records. RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignation VOICE FARM | TROUSER PRESS Voice Farm. On The World We Live In, San Francisco’s Voice Farm was a trio — two guys who appear on the front cover dressed only in their underpants, and a less-exposed female — employing synthesizers, vocals and acoustic percussion to weave moody instrumentals, some of which are paired with incisive, intelligent(and, in one case
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NICK DRAKE'S SHORT RIDE Nick Drake’s songs cast an eerie spell on first-time listeners. It’s not only that he produced some of the finest melodies and lyrics ever to grace the spiral grooves of a record, or that he worked with some of the best musicians in the business, or that he influencedmany
POISON GIRLS
The Poison Girls — a wise post-adolescent poet/singer/guitarist who wittily calls herself Vi Subversa plus a male backing band — are politicized musical agitators employing rock (minimalist at the start but improving steadily to the point of sophisticated diversity lateron) as their mea
MISSING FOUNDATION
Notorious for a highly visible graffiti campaign (the upturned martini glass logo, accompanied by cryptic sloganeering), violently destructive confrontational live appearances and a television newscaster who accused them of fomenting a 1988 riot in Tompkins Square Park, New York’s mysterious Missing Foundation has also made records that preach what the anarchist band practices. TROUSER PRESS FORUM :: TROUSER PRESS Discussion of any and all music covered by the Trouser Press guides and trouserpress.com TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices.A'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t GUN CLUB | TROUSER PRESS Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club. From his days as a peroxided, Debbie Harry-fixated Los Angeles teen-punk, through a lengthy era when he seemed convinced he could channel the spirit of Robert Johnson, to a more recent probe of the seedier side of continental balladry, Pierce — who died of a cerebral blood clot in Utah at the end of March 1996 — always NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim Pa JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom WaitsNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous andMAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
Man or Astro-Man? Considering how many garage bands have been formed by those whose heads were shrunk by spending their youth glued to the TV watching monster movies, it stands to reason that trashy science-fiction would have polluted its share of minds as well. Taking a few obvious cues from Devo but going far deeper into the land ofcheap and
WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often and TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices.A'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t GUN CLUB | TROUSER PRESS Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club. From his days as a peroxided, Debbie Harry-fixated Los Angeles teen-punk, through a lengthy era when he seemed convinced he could channel the spirit of Robert Johnson, to a more recent probe of the seedier side of continental balladry, Pierce — who died of a cerebral blood clot in Utah at the end of March 1996 — always NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim Pa JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom WaitsNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous andMAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
Man or Astro-Man? Considering how many garage bands have been formed by those whose heads were shrunk by spending their youth glued to the TV watching monster movies, it stands to reason that trashy science-fiction would have polluted its share of minds as well. Taking a few obvious cues from Devo but going far deeper into the land ofcheap and
WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often andNURSE WITH WOUND
As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and frequently entertaining self-released records. RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignation VOICE FARM | TROUSER PRESS Voice Farm. On The World We Live In, San Francisco’s Voice Farm was a trio — two guys who appear on the front cover dressed only in their underpants, and a less-exposed female — employing synthesizers, vocals and acoustic percussion to weave moody instrumentals, some of which are paired with incisive, intelligent(and, in one case
WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me SQUEEZE | TROUSER PRESS Squeeze. Old-fashioned pop craftsmen saved from a workingman’s death in English pubs by the new wave, singer/guitarists Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook — the core of Squeeze — found their forte/niche in setting small dramas of British life to music that can be ebullient, reflective, gay or morose. Aided along the way by tasteful rhythm MARVIN | TROUSER PRESS Marvin. After playing bass in Lone Justice, New York-born Marvin Etzioni shouldered his mandolin and Telecaster, stashed his surname and set off on a tasteful, intelligent and inconsistent solo career. A folky humanist with a homely voice, the singer/songwriter brings a little of Tom Waits’ artful majesty and Leonard Cohen’s poeticgravity
NICK DRAKE'S SHORT RIDE Nick Drake’s songs cast an eerie spell on first-time listeners. It’s not only that he produced some of the finest melodies and lyrics ever to grace the spiral grooves of a record, or that he worked with some of the best musicians in the business, or that he influencedmany
POISON GIRLS
The Poison Girls — a wise post-adolescent poet/singer/guitarist who wittily calls herself Vi Subversa plus a male backing band — are politicized musical agitators employing rock (minimalist at the start but improving steadily to the point of sophisticated diversity lateron) as their mea
MISSING FOUNDATION
Notorious for a highly visible graffiti campaign (the upturned martini glass logo, accompanied by cryptic sloganeering), violently destructive confrontational live appearances and a television newscaster who accused them of fomenting a 1988 riot in Tompkins Square Park, New York’s mysterious Missing Foundation has also made records that preach what the anarchist band practices. TROUSER PRESS FORUM :: TROUSER PRESS Discussion of any and all music covered by the Trouser Press guides and trouserpress.com TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices.A'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom Waits FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim Pa RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous andMAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
Man or Astro-Man? Considering how many garage bands have been formed by those whose heads were shrunk by spending their youth glued to the TV watching monster movies, it stands to reason that trashy science-fiction would have polluted its share of minds as well. Taking a few obvious cues from Devo but going far deeper into the land ofcheap and
WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often and TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices.A'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom Waits FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim Pa RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous andMAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
Man or Astro-Man? Considering how many garage bands have been formed by those whose heads were shrunk by spending their youth glued to the TV watching monster movies, it stands to reason that trashy science-fiction would have polluted its share of minds as well. Taking a few obvious cues from Devo but going far deeper into the land ofcheap and
WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often andNURSE WITH WOUND
As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and frequently entertaining self-released records. BLURT | TROUSER PRESS Ted Milton is a direct and honest guy. “I will lead the world over the end of the Santa Monica Pier,” he declares in “No Go Dada” (originally on Bullets for You, but also on several of the live records: two Blurt credos are recycling and documenting each new lineup in performance), “but not until you’ve raised the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to blood temperature and provide WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me GUN CLUB | TROUSER PRESS Gun Club. Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club. From his days as a peroxided, Debbie Harry-fixated Los Angeles teen-punk, through a lengthy era when he seemed convinced he could channel the spirit of Robert Johnson, to a more recent probe of the seedier side of continental balladry, Pierce — who died of a SQUEEZE | TROUSER PRESS Squeeze. Old-fashioned pop craftsmen saved from a workingman’s death in English pubs by the new wave, singer/guitarists Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook — the core of Squeeze — found their forte/niche in setting small dramas of British life to music that can be ebullient, reflective, gay or morose. Aided along the way by tasteful rhythmMISSING FOUNDATION
Notorious for a highly visible graffiti campaign (the upturned martini glass logo, accompanied by cryptic sloganeering), violently destructive confrontational live appearances and a television newscaster who accused them of fomenting a 1988 riot in Tompkins Square Park, New York’s mysterious Missing Foundation has also made records that preach what the anarchist band practices. LEE HARVEY OSWALD BAND Lee Harvey Oswald Band. A lovely name, a nubile-tied-off, nude and unconscious — on the cover, pix of cross-dressing slobs with guitars, liner notes in Japanese, a phony band history that claims two decades of existence and a fully functional slab of goodtimesgarage-punk —
IRON PROSTATE
Most rock bands would prefer to turn a blind eye to the subject of getting older, but Iron Prostate looks middle age in the face and laughs. Determined to grow up gracelessly, this band of (mostly) 40ish punk enthusiasts — including veteran rock critic Charles M. Young on bass — proudly displays its influences (Dead Boys, Ramones) on Loud, Fast, and Aging Rapidly.SUBURBAN LAWNS
Suburban Lawns. This eccentric California quintet made a minor splash in 1979 with an independent single, “Gidget Goes to Hell,” a spirited, twisted variation on the ’60s Gidget movies. But the group’s jittery industrial pop comes off highly ordinary on Suburban Lawns, a sub-Devo mesh of hiccupping vocals, angular tunes withtiresome
BALLISTIC KISSES
Pseudo-streetwise lyrics tend to distract attention from the solidly danceable, cleanly produced synth-dominated pop on this New York band's first album. When their political stance turns to political role-playing, though, the result is oversimplification that borders on insincerity. Little wonder, TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices.A'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom Waits FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim Pa RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous andMAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
Man or Astro-Man? Considering how many garage bands have been formed by those whose heads were shrunk by spending their youth glued to the TV watching monster movies, it stands to reason that trashy science-fiction would have polluted its share of minds as well. Taking a few obvious cues from Devo but going far deeper into the land ofcheap and
WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often and TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices.A'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom Waits FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim Pa RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous andMAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
Man or Astro-Man? Considering how many garage bands have been formed by those whose heads were shrunk by spending their youth glued to the TV watching monster movies, it stands to reason that trashy science-fiction would have polluted its share of minds as well. Taking a few obvious cues from Devo but going far deeper into the land ofcheap and
WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often andNURSE WITH WOUND
As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and frequently entertaining self-released records. WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me BLURT | TROUSER PRESS Ted Milton is a direct and honest guy. “I will lead the world over the end of the Santa Monica Pier,” he declares in “No Go Dada” (originally on Bullets for You, but also on several of the live records: two Blurt credos are recycling and documenting each new lineup in performance), “but not until you’ve raised the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to blood temperature and provide GUN CLUB | TROUSER PRESS Gun Club. Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club. From his days as a peroxided, Debbie Harry-fixated Los Angeles teen-punk, through a lengthy era when he seemed convinced he could channel the spirit of Robert Johnson, to a more recent probe of the seedier side of continental balladry, Pierce — who died of a SQUEEZE | TROUSER PRESS Squeeze. Old-fashioned pop craftsmen saved from a workingman’s death in English pubs by the new wave, singer/guitarists Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook — the core of Squeeze — found their forte/niche in setting small dramas of British life to music that can be ebullient, reflective, gay or morose. Aided along the way by tasteful rhythmMISSING FOUNDATION
Notorious for a highly visible graffiti campaign (the upturned martini glass logo, accompanied by cryptic sloganeering), violently destructive confrontational live appearances and a television newscaster who accused them of fomenting a 1988 riot in Tompkins Square Park, New York’s mysterious Missing Foundation has also made records that preach what the anarchist band practices. LEE HARVEY OSWALD BAND Lee Harvey Oswald Band. A lovely name, a nubile-tied-off, nude and unconscious — on the cover, pix of cross-dressing slobs with guitars, liner notes in Japanese, a phony band history that claims two decades of existence and a fully functional slab of goodtimesgarage-punk —
SUBURBAN LAWNS
Suburban Lawns. This eccentric California quintet made a minor splash in 1979 with an independent single, “Gidget Goes to Hell,” a spirited, twisted variation on the ’60s Gidget movies. But the group’s jittery industrial pop comes off highly ordinary on Suburban Lawns, a sub-Devo mesh of hiccupping vocals, angular tunes withtiresome
IRON PROSTATE
Most rock bands would prefer to turn a blind eye to the subject of getting older, but Iron Prostate looks middle age in the face and laughs. Determined to grow up gracelessly, this band of (mostly) 40ish punk enthusiasts — including veteran rock critic Charles M. Young on bass — proudly displays its influences (Dead Boys, Ramones) on Loud, Fast, and Aging Rapidly.BALLISTIC KISSES
Pseudo-streetwise lyrics tend to distract attention from the solidly danceable, cleanly produced synth-dominated pop on this New York band's first album. When their political stance turns to political role-playing, though, the result is oversimplification that borders on insincerity. Little wonder, TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices.A'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom Waits FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim Pa RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous andMAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
Man or Astro-Man? Considering how many garage bands have been formed by those whose heads were shrunk by spending their youth glued to the TV watching monster movies, it stands to reason that trashy science-fiction would have polluted its share of minds as well. Taking a few obvious cues from Devo but going far deeper into the land ofcheap and
WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often and TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices.A'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom Waits FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim Pa RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous andMAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
Man or Astro-Man? Considering how many garage bands have been formed by those whose heads were shrunk by spending their youth glued to the TV watching monster movies, it stands to reason that trashy science-fiction would have polluted its share of minds as well. Taking a few obvious cues from Devo but going far deeper into the land ofcheap and
WILL SERGEANT OF ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The band’s 1980s albums — Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984) and Echo and the Bunnymen (1987) – and such singles as “The Killing Moon,” “The Cutter,” “Lips Like Sugar” and “Bring on the Dancing Horses” made the band influential post-punk pioneers. Despite a tumultuous history of lineup changes and hiatuses, Echo has never ended, touring often andNURSE WITH WOUND
As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and frequently entertaining self-released records. WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me BLURT | TROUSER PRESS Ted Milton is a direct and honest guy. “I will lead the world over the end of the Santa Monica Pier,” he declares in “No Go Dada” (originally on Bullets for You, but also on several of the live records: two Blurt credos are recycling and documenting each new lineup in performance), “but not until you’ve raised the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to blood temperature and provide GUN CLUB | TROUSER PRESS Gun Club. Jeffrey Lee Pierce, for all intents and purposes, was the Gun Club. From his days as a peroxided, Debbie Harry-fixated Los Angeles teen-punk, through a lengthy era when he seemed convinced he could channel the spirit of Robert Johnson, to a more recent probe of the seedier side of continental balladry, Pierce — who died of a SQUEEZE | TROUSER PRESS Squeeze. Old-fashioned pop craftsmen saved from a workingman’s death in English pubs by the new wave, singer/guitarists Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook — the core of Squeeze — found their forte/niche in setting small dramas of British life to music that can be ebullient, reflective, gay or morose. Aided along the way by tasteful rhythmMISSING FOUNDATION
Notorious for a highly visible graffiti campaign (the upturned martini glass logo, accompanied by cryptic sloganeering), violently destructive confrontational live appearances and a television newscaster who accused them of fomenting a 1988 riot in Tompkins Square Park, New York’s mysterious Missing Foundation has also made records that preach what the anarchist band practices. LEE HARVEY OSWALD BAND Lee Harvey Oswald Band. A lovely name, a nubile-tied-off, nude and unconscious — on the cover, pix of cross-dressing slobs with guitars, liner notes in Japanese, a phony band history that claims two decades of existence and a fully functional slab of goodtimesgarage-punk —
SUBURBAN LAWNS
Suburban Lawns. This eccentric California quintet made a minor splash in 1979 with an independent single, “Gidget Goes to Hell,” a spirited, twisted variation on the ’60s Gidget movies. But the group’s jittery industrial pop comes off highly ordinary on Suburban Lawns, a sub-Devo mesh of hiccupping vocals, angular tunes withtiresome
IRON PROSTATE
Most rock bands would prefer to turn a blind eye to the subject of getting older, but Iron Prostate looks middle age in the face and laughs. Determined to grow up gracelessly, this band of (mostly) 40ish punk enthusiasts — including veteran rock critic Charles M. Young on bass — proudly displays its influences (Dead Boys, Ramones) on Loud, Fast, and Aging Rapidly.BALLISTIC KISSES
Pseudo-streetwise lyrics tend to distract attention from the solidly danceable, cleanly produced synth-dominated pop on this New York band's first album. When their political stance turns to political role-playing, though, the result is oversimplification that borders on insincerity. Little wonder, TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices. JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom WaitsA'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim PaHELIOS CREED
Helios Creed. After Chrome disbanded in 1983, the subsequent solo careers of its two members left little doubt about where most of the creative energies in the pioneering San Francisco proto-industrial synth-rock group resided. Helios Creed’s eight solo LPs are scary stuff, dark psychedelia filled with blasts of chaotic guitar and WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices. JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom WaitsA'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim PaHELIOS CREED
Helios Creed. After Chrome disbanded in 1983, the subsequent solo careers of its two members left little doubt about where most of the creative energies in the pioneering San Francisco proto-industrial synth-rock group resided. Helios Creed’s eight solo LPs are scary stuff, dark psychedelia filled with blasts of chaotic guitar and WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
TROUSER PRESS MAGAZINE ARCHIVE Trouser Press Magazine Archive. Trouser Press magazine published a total of 95 issues between 1974 and 1984. They’ve all been scanned and posted here. The contents are searchable within each issue. Click here for an index of every review, article, column, flexi WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me RAPED | TROUSER PRESS As (lower) class-of-'77 punks, these London buttheads released a 7-inch EP of sub-Clash pop aggression which included their idiotic but hardly shocking 1:20 theme song, "Raped." Along with a name change to Cuddly Toys, the quartet dyed their hair, donned androgynous threads and began playing Bowie-sISM | TROUSER PRESS
A good, scatological laugh for the vulgar at heart. On Constantinople, Jism and his band connect with their roots, slam-dunking songs by the Residents and the Fugs with reverent but rowdy enthusiasm. Rather than hardcore, Ism here plays restrained rock with piano and relative subtlety. Judging by this EP, Ism is developing a novel time warp REAL KIDS | TROUSER PRESS The Real Kids were one of Boston's earliest new wave bands; their debut album is full of dynamite tracks that take the trashier aspect of the Rolling Stones and couple it with the high-power guitar approach of the Ramones. Frontman (and onetime Modern Lover) John Felice not only provides tough guita PASSIONS | TROUSER PRESS Passions. As introduced on Michael & Miranda, the Passions (most of whom had been in a London punk band called the Derelicts) appeared to be part of the post-punk movement. The record is characterized by spare arrangements, stark vocals and fairly unmelodic — though lyrically interesting — songs. Subjects like unhappy love (“Oh No,It’s
BLUE IN HEAVEN
Blue in Heaven. Although this young Irish quartet debuted on 45 with a fiery guitar anthem (“Julie Cries”), an inappropriate choice of producer (Martin Hannett) for their first album turned them into bass-heavy doom mongers. A remix of the single on All the Gods’ Men tells the whole sordid tale.JOY DIVISION
The surviving trio, with one new member, continued, finding far greater commercial success as New Order. Following the self-release of the 7-inch An Ideal for Living, a skillful but rather unexceptional quartet of Bowie-influenced guitar punk songs, Joy Division did tracks for a local compilation and then signed with the incipient Factorylabel.
GANG GREEN | TROUSER PRESS Gang Green. Led by singer/guitarist Chris Doherty, Boston’s greatest beer-soaked contribution to the skate-punk genre began as a faster’n’louder hardcore trio, with seven sketchy smears (e.g., “Snob,” “Kill a Commie” and “Rabies”) averaging under a minute each on a 1982 scene compilation.RED TEMPLE SPIRITS
Los Angeles quartet Red Temple Spirits skillfully mixes tribal post-punk influences — mid-period Cure, Savage Republic, early (Death) Cult — with a loving dose of lysergic psychedelia (Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson are particular touchstones). Bassist Dino Paredes (formerly of Psi-Com, w TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices. JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom WaitsA'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim PaHELIOS CREED
Helios Creed. After Chrome disbanded in 1983, the subsequent solo careers of its two members left little doubt about where most of the creative energies in the pioneering San Francisco proto-industrial synth-rock group resided. Helios Creed’s eight solo LPs are scary stuff, dark psychedelia filled with blasts of chaotic guitar and WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices. JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom WaitsA'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim PaHELIOS CREED
Helios Creed. After Chrome disbanded in 1983, the subsequent solo careers of its two members left little doubt about where most of the creative energies in the pioneering San Francisco proto-industrial synth-rock group resided. Helios Creed’s eight solo LPs are scary stuff, dark psychedelia filled with blasts of chaotic guitar and WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me TROUSER PRESS MAGAZINE ARCHIVE Trouser Press Magazine Archive. Trouser Press magazine published a total of 95 issues between 1974 and 1984. They’ve all been scanned and posted here. The contents are searchable within each issue. Click here for an index of every review, article, column, flexi WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me RAPED | TROUSER PRESS As (lower) class-of-'77 punks, these London buttheads released a 7-inch EP of sub-Clash pop aggression which included their idiotic but hardly shocking 1:20 theme song, "Raped." Along with a name change to Cuddly Toys, the quartet dyed their hair, donned androgynous threads and began playing Bowie-sISM | TROUSER PRESS
A good, scatological laugh for the vulgar at heart. On Constantinople, Jism and his band connect with their roots, slam-dunking songs by the Residents and the Fugs with reverent but rowdy enthusiasm. Rather than hardcore, Ism here plays restrained rock with piano and relative subtlety. Judging by this EP, Ism is developing a novel time warp REAL KIDS | TROUSER PRESS The Real Kids were one of Boston's earliest new wave bands; their debut album is full of dynamite tracks that take the trashier aspect of the Rolling Stones and couple it with the high-power guitar approach of the Ramones. Frontman (and onetime Modern Lover) John Felice not only provides tough guita PASSIONS | TROUSER PRESS Passions. As introduced on Michael & Miranda, the Passions (most of whom had been in a London punk band called the Derelicts) appeared to be part of the post-punk movement. The record is characterized by spare arrangements, stark vocals and fairly unmelodic — though lyrically interesting — songs. Subjects like unhappy love (“Oh No,It’s
BLUE IN HEAVEN
Blue in Heaven. Although this young Irish quartet debuted on 45 with a fiery guitar anthem (“Julie Cries”), an inappropriate choice of producer (Martin Hannett) for their first album turned them into bass-heavy doom mongers. A remix of the single on All the Gods’ Men tells the whole sordid tale.JOY DIVISION
The surviving trio, with one new member, continued, finding far greater commercial success as New Order. Following the self-release of the 7-inch An Ideal for Living, a skillful but rather unexceptional quartet of Bowie-influenced guitar punk songs, Joy Division did tracks for a local compilation and then signed with the incipient Factorylabel.
GANG GREEN | TROUSER PRESS Gang Green. Led by singer/guitarist Chris Doherty, Boston’s greatest beer-soaked contribution to the skate-punk genre began as a faster’n’louder hardcore trio, with seven sketchy smears (e.g., “Snob,” “Kill a Commie” and “Rabies”) averaging under a minute each on a 1982 scene compilation.RED TEMPLE SPIRITS
Los Angeles quartet Red Temple Spirits skillfully mixes tribal post-punk influences — mid-period Cure, Savage Republic, early (Death) Cult — with a loving dose of lysergic psychedelia (Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson are particular touchstones). Bassist Dino Paredes (formerly of Psi-Com, w TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices. JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom WaitsA'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim PaHELIOS CREED
Helios Creed. After Chrome disbanded in 1983, the subsequent solo careers of its two members left little doubt about where most of the creative energies in the pioneering San Francisco proto-industrial synth-rock group resided. Helios Creed’s eight solo LPs are scary stuff, dark psychedelia filled with blasts of chaotic guitar and WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
TROUSER PRESSARTICLESREVIEWSMAGAZINEFORUMPHOTOSCONTACT More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, Trouser Press first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five Trouser Press Record Guides on a new site. Our 2020 relaunch made it a digital music publication optimized for various devices. JUDY NYLON AND CRUCIAL Judy Nylon and Crucial. Abandoning New York for London, no-wave singer Judy Nylon teamed with Pat Palladin to form Snatch, ultimately making the German-inspired sound collage “R.A.F.” with Brian Eno, which appeared on the B-side of his “King’s Lead Hat” 45. The Snatch EP features Nylon and Palladin teaming up for a pseudo-Tom WaitsA'S | TROUSER PRESS
A’s. One of the first bands on Philadelphia’s new wave club scene to sign with a major label, the A’s made their reputation through an energetic stage show which featured singer Richard Bush’s Jerry Lewis-like antics. On the group’s first album, Bush shows an equalaptitude for
DUCKS DELUXE
Heard in the cold light of the present, England's pub-rockin' Ducks Deluxe sound rather inconsequential (if amiable). Back in the dark ages of 1974, however, they were manna from heaven. Along with Brinsley Schwarz and Dr. Feelgood, the Ducks championed a much-needed return to basics by playing in t RECORD REVIEWS: WHO NEEDS 'EM? PART ONE. I could be wrong, but – adding together a decade of Trouser Press magazine, five Trouser Press Record Guides and a whole lot of freelance writing — I may have reviewed as many albums as any American rock critic this side of Bob Christgau. From adroit to inept, I’ve offered my full faith and credit to a small percentage of them, attacked some (with the fierce indignationNURSE WITH WOUND
Nurse With Wound. As a testament to the random disorder and beauty of life, London’s Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) functioned outside the normal musical channels for a decade, experimenting with tape collages of disjointed phrases, improvised music, electronics and found sounds on a series of intriguing, provocative, humorous and FAGS | TROUSER PRESS John Liccardello (aka John Speck) is a great rock 'n' roll guitarist, an even better singer and an absolutely ace songwriter. So far, though, his reputation (at least outside Detroit) rests at least as much on his monumentally rotten luck as on his music. The same goes for his former bandmate Jim PaHELIOS CREED
Helios Creed. After Chrome disbanded in 1983, the subsequent solo careers of its two members left little doubt about where most of the creative energies in the pioneering San Francisco proto-industrial synth-rock group resided. Helios Creed’s eight solo LPs are scary stuff, dark psychedelia filled with blasts of chaotic guitar and WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me NAKED PREY | TROUSER PRESS Naked Prey. Van Christian was at one time Green on Red’s drummer; back home in Tucson, Arizona, he switched to vocals and guitar and formed Naked Prey. The quartet plays rough-edged country rock with similarities to Green on Red (as well as Dream Syndicate and others in the California/Arizona axis). Although the seven-song debut’spowerful
TROUSER PRESS MAGAZINE ARCHIVE Trouser Press Magazine Archive. Trouser Press magazine published a total of 95 issues between 1974 and 1984. They’ve all been scanned and posted here. The contents are searchable within each issue. Click here for an index of every review, article, column, flexi WAH! | TROUSER PRESS One of the most significant and underappreciated groups of the punk-era Liverpool scene, Wah! (and titular variations thereon) functions as a vehicle for extrovert Pete Wylie. On Nah = Poo, Wah! sounds like Emerson, Lake and Palmer with hipper (though equally flamboyant) arrangements. Wylie sings me RAPED | TROUSER PRESS As (lower) class-of-'77 punks, these London buttheads released a 7-inch EP of sub-Clash pop aggression which included their idiotic but hardly shocking 1:20 theme song, "Raped." Along with a name change to Cuddly Toys, the quartet dyed their hair, donned androgynous threads and began playing Bowie-sISM | TROUSER PRESS
A good, scatological laugh for the vulgar at heart. On Constantinople, Jism and his band connect with their roots, slam-dunking songs by the Residents and the Fugs with reverent but rowdy enthusiasm. Rather than hardcore, Ism here plays restrained rock with piano and relative subtlety. Judging by this EP, Ism is developing a novel time warp REAL KIDS | TROUSER PRESS The Real Kids were one of Boston's earliest new wave bands; their debut album is full of dynamite tracks that take the trashier aspect of the Rolling Stones and couple it with the high-power guitar approach of the Ramones. Frontman (and onetime Modern Lover) John Felice not only provides tough guita PASSIONS | TROUSER PRESS Passions. As introduced on Michael & Miranda, the Passions (most of whom had been in a London punk band called the Derelicts) appeared to be part of the post-punk movement. The record is characterized by spare arrangements, stark vocals and fairly unmelodic — though lyrically interesting — songs. Subjects like unhappy love (“Oh No,It’s
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Blue in Heaven. Although this young Irish quartet debuted on 45 with a fiery guitar anthem (“Julie Cries”), an inappropriate choice of producer (Martin Hannett) for their first album turned them into bass-heavy doom mongers. A remix of the single on All the Gods’ Men tells the whole sordid tale.JOY DIVISION
The surviving trio, with one new member, continued, finding far greater commercial success as New Order. Following the self-release of the 7-inch An Ideal for Living, a skillful but rather unexceptional quartet of Bowie-influenced guitar punk songs, Joy Division did tracks for a local compilation and then signed with the incipient Factorylabel.
GANG GREEN | TROUSER PRESS Gang Green. Led by singer/guitarist Chris Doherty, Boston’s greatest beer-soaked contribution to the skate-punk genre began as a faster’n’louder hardcore trio, with seven sketchy smears (e.g., “Snob,” “Kill a Commie” and “Rabies”) averaging under a minute each on a 1982 scene compilation.RED TEMPLE SPIRITS
Los Angeles quartet Red Temple Spirits skillfully mixes tribal post-punk influences — mid-period Cure, Savage Republic, early (Death) Cult — with a loving dose of lysergic psychedelia (Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson are particular touchstones). Bassist Dino Paredes (formerly of Psi-Com, wTrouser Press
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“THE BIBLE OF ALTERNATIVE ROCK” More than a decade after the magazine ended its ten-year run, _Trouser Press_ first went online in 1997. In 2002, we consolidated the contents of five _Trouser Press Record Guides_ on a new site. Some updating was done, but there’s a _lot_ of catching up to do. This 2020 relaunch makes it a digital music publication optimized for various devices. Among the new features are a searchable (!) _Trouser Press_ magazine archive , a photo gallery and videos . There’s a forum for sharing your thoughts. We publish books (including Ira Robbins’ new novel, _Marc Bolan Killed in Crash_)
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* The Sensible Mr. ScabiesOctober 23, 2020
The once-notorious Rat Scabies of the Damned is now a charming grandfather, drumming (remotely) in a great band with another London scene stalwart and two LA punk veterans. * The Right Side of HistoryOctober 19, 2020
The new documentary film White Riot covers the first two years – 1976 to 1978 — of the British activist organization Rock Against Racism. Director Rubika Shah’s style, which incorporates animation and quick edits, builds on the energy of the punk scene and includes plenty of exciting music. * Bob Mould’s Tower of PowerSeptember 29,
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With a huge box set retrospective _and_ a fired-up new solo album, Bob Mould is living proof that old punks never die. * Sonic Adult September 25,2020
Thurston Moore talks about his new album, _By the Fire_, his songwriting process, surviving the indie rock lifestyle, playing for 200,000 people and more. * What Remains? September22, 2020
Four Boston college students formed the Remains in 1963 to play straightforward rock ‘n’ roll. Their energy and exuberance was unmatched by any American band of the time and surpassed by only a couple of English bands.* Quick Takes
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