April 25, 2002
Violent Femmes Celebrate 20 Years
Expanded edition of band's debut record to be released in June
Gordon Gano seems like the creepy kid next door who'll go off the deep end any minute, and the more he acts that way, the better the Violent Femmes are. On 3 (actually the band's fourth album), he can sound unhinged when chronicling normal activities like seeing a vaguely familiar person ("Mother of...
1988 RS:
This Milwaukee trio took punk's revenge-of-the-nerds aspect to heart; clean-cut choirboy Gordon Gano gleefully wheeled out his tales of sexual frustration and impending psychosis, while bassist Brian Ritchie and stand-up drummer Victor DeLorenzo both slammed away on acoustic instruments. Violent Femmes really stood out on the fledgling alternative circuit, and the group capitalized on its barebo...
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