Formed by ex-Dead Boys, Sylvain Sylvain, Bulemics guitarist Jason “Ginchy” Kottwitz, The Oxys blend 1970s gutter rock, snot punk, and a smidge of power pop.
On Halloween night, 1986, Midwest’s hammering punk legends Dead Boys showed up to collect their beer money. In the ’80s, we called this “good bootleg quality.”
Prime era kickass punk rock from Cleveland’s Iggy-fixated rocker casualties. Filmed when people in NY thought that this roaring splatter was gonna be big.
“It was a desperate stubborn refusal of the world, a total rejection. We had been promised the end of the world as children, and we weren’t getting it.”
Music makes the world livable, and good music can make this often metaphorical and occasionally literal garbage heap much more so, ‘cept it’s a bitch to find.
A standard-setting self-destructive punk album, bringing out the raw, throat-shredding vocals of Stiv Bator and the fuck-overdubs guitarwork and skin-bashing.