Violent Femmes
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The Violent Femmes: The Violent Femmes
Review by Bill Holdship, Creem, October 1983
ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL frustration have long been central themes in rock, and Gordon Gano – the Violent Femmes' 20-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist – seems ...
Violent Femmes: Music Machine, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 24 November 1983
THE PLAYERS: Gordon Gano, guitar, vocals; Brian Ritchie, bass, vocals; Victor de Lorenzo, drums; Peter Balastrieri, saxophone. ...
Slash: L.A.'s Maverick Label Meets the Majors
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 10 February 1984
LOS ANGELES —"Music is a vehicle for ideas, and if the ideas suck and the music's good, it's still pretty bad music." The man at ...
Violent Femmes: Hallowed Ground (Slash/London)
Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 18 August 1984
MILWAUKEE IS Dullsville by any other name, so little wonder that the three superbuskers who comprise The Violent Femmes munch upon the tastiest feast Americana ...
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 8 March 1986
It seems that the Violent Femmes, American outer-limits oddballs of note, are getting heavily into fish and wah-wah pedals. Sandy Robertson went along to find ...
Albums by Eno, Rosanne Cash et al
Review by Mary Harron, The Observer, 9 March 1986
BRIAN ENO: More Blank Than Frank (EG Records EGLP 65) ...
Violent Femmes: Dangerous Visions
Interview by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 29 March 1986
The VIOLENT FEMMES are, in deed, weird fish. Bagpipers, Bolan and Wild Billy Burroughs all seem to stagger blindly into their orbit. ANDY GILL herein ...
Violent Femmes: The Blind Leading The Naked
Review by Ira Robbins, Creem, June 1986
TWO LINES ON Violent Femmes' wrenchingly raw, largely acoustic debut album stand unequalled in the rock 'n' roll hall of fame for forthright candor in ...
Violent Femmes: Why Do Birds Sing? (Slash/Reprise)
Review by Jon Young, Spin, July 1991
VIOLENT FEMMES have long carried on the proud tradition of rockin' cool jerks without inspiring the respect accorded fellow geeks David Byrne and Jonathan Richman. ...
Violent Femmes: New Times (Elektra/All Formats)
Review by Andrew Mueller, New Musical Express, 21 May 1994
IN A SANE world, every child on earth would be issued with a copy of the Femmes' 1985 debut the moment they reached puberty — ...
Violent Femmes: These Daddies Haven't Gone Anywhere
Profile and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 29 June 2018
BRIAN RITCHIE says that he gets asked a certain question often. Maybe somebody sees him with his long blond hair. Or that he's carrying a ...
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