Only the most kick ass band on the planet! Has released 6 albums so far, including March On Electric Children (2002), This Adultery Is Ripe (2002), Burn Piano Island, Burn (2003), Rumors Laid Waste (EP) (2003), Crimes (2004), Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck (2005), and their latest, Young Machetes (2006). Young Machetes was produced by Guy Piciotto of Fugazi and John Goodmanson who also co-produced Crimes along with the band themselves.
Members of the band include: Johnny
Whitney (keyboard + vocals), Mark Gajadhar (drums),
Cody Votolato (guitar),
Morgan Henderson (bass), and Jordan Blilie (vocals). They officially formed in 1997 in
Seattle. Jordan Blilie is brother to Hannah Blilie, the drummer for Olympia-based band the Gossip.
Side projects of some band members include
Head Wound City, Neon Blonde, and Waxwing.
Their sound could probably be placed somewhere within the range of
experimental punk, soaked in angst and a heavy scowl towards mainstream culture. Johnny
Whitney's infamous high-pitched screams resonate throughout all of their albums, a memorable feature.
In all senses of the words,
fucking sweet!
