Estrus Records
If you like your rock hard, dirty, and mean, then Estrus Records is undoubtedly the label for you. Specializing in garage, surf, and out-and-out trash, Estrus is one of the largest labels in the Pacific Northwest, with a huge catalogue of psycho raunch and roll acts that includes The Gories, The Makers, Man or Astro-man?, and many others. Estrus gets extra praise for its unwavering commitment to the seven-inch single.
The Bobbyteens
With their bad attitudes, big hair, nasty guitar licks, and great pop melodies California bubblegum punk quartet The Bobbyteens could be the reincarnation of the Ramones -- uh, only with a bit more cleavage.
Not So Sweet
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2000
The Drags
Yeah! Straight-up, take-no-prisoners garage punk out of Albuquerque, New Mexico that's full of brutal muscle, I-hate-everything attitude, and intestine-twisting rhythm.
Set Right Fit To Blow Clean Up
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2000
Fireballs Of Freedom
Fireballs of Freedom are a full-throttle beast of a rock and roll band that attacks you with their knife-edged rawk squawk like a gang of broken bottle-wielding juvenile delinquents gone psycho on minithins and their parents' tequila.
Total Fucking Blowout
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2000
The Gimmicks
Another rock and roll machine out of the Pacific Northwest that writhes and shakes with sinister orgiastic fury. The Gimmicks are loud, fast, mean, dirty, and wickedly confrontational.
Honeymoon's Over
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2000
The Insomniacs
Get into your three-button suit, your tapered pants, your Beatle boots, and put your shades on. New Jersey's Insomniacs want you to stay up all night long dancing your little mod ass off to some attitude-infused rock 'n' roll that will make you party like it's 1964.
Get Something Going
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2000
The Monkeywrench
Featuring members of Mudhoney, Poison 13, and the Gas Huffers, the Monkeywrench rips through mid-'60s R&B riffs and big rock clichés to create their gloriously lo-fi trashadelia.
Electric Children
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2000
The Mooney Suzuki
Are you ready for The Mooney Suzuki's epileptic, high-adrenaline, whitelightwhiteheat goofball garage rock attack? 'Cause it's gonna take a lot out of you. Once these guys get started, they testify like there's no tomorrow, and it can be a bit much for the ordinary heart to handle.
People Get Ready
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2000
The Quadrajets
These Southern trash rockers deliver the goods with a vicious guitar-driven attack laced with Old Crow and Louisiana hot sauce. They'll get you twisted in knots trying to keep up, and once they're done you'll be quivering for more.
When The World's On Fire
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2000
Soledad Brothers
Prepare yourself. Dark and dangerous acid-blues duo the Soledad Brothers lays it on you heavy with ragged ideologically charged garage rock that often recalls both the Delta blues and the legendary MC5 in spirit and sound.
Soledad Brothers
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2000
Sugar Shack
Sugar Shack's semi-demented Texas punkedelia takes you on a wild, raunchy rawk and roll ride that will probably make you feel a little dirty and more than a little shaken up. This is sleaze of the sublimest kind.
Get Out Of My World
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2000
The Von Zippers
Calgary's Von Zippers are Canada's finest purveyors of straight-no-chaser ballsy, bluesy rock and roll, blending trashy punk and garage sleaze into hairy sweaty beasts of songs. This is the kind of music that leaves you with a pair of black eyes and a brutal hangover.
Estrus 100% Apeshit Rock Sampler (Vol. 2)
