Dinosaur Jr. is an American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984, originally simply called Dinosaur until legal issues forced a change in name.
OOIOO is a Japanese experimental rock band. The four-piece ensemble was founded by Boredoms drummer and occasional trumpeter and vocalist Yoshimi P-We. When she was asked to do a photo shoot for a magazine she invited a few of her friends to join her and created for the shoot a fake band called OOIOO which they later decided to make real. The band quickly gained attention by being the opening act for Sonic Youth in 1997 on their Japan tour.
Yoshimi is a Japanese musician best known for her role as the longest consistent drummer in the Japanese rock band Boredoms.
Free Kitten is an American alternative rock band formed by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz. Originally performing as Kitten, they changed their name after receiving threats of legal action by a heavy metal singer performing under the same name. Boredoms member Yoshimi P-We took up drums, and Pavement's Mark Ibold joined later on as bassist. They have released a handful of albums and singles, mainly on label Kill Rock Stars, including a remix 12" featuring DJ Spooky. They toured on 1993's Lollapalooza. A studio album, 2008's Inherit, on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, is the group's most recently available.
Joseph Donald Mascis Jr., better known as J Mascis, is an American musician who is the singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. He has also released several albums as a solo artist and played drums and guitar on other projects. His most recent solo album, Elastic Days, was released in November 2018. He was ranked number 86 in a Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists", and number 5 in a similar list for Spin magazine in 2012.
Confusion Is Sex is the debut studio album by American noise rock band Sonic Youth. It was released on vinyl LP in February 1983 by record label Neutral. It has been cited as an important example of the no wave genre. AllMusic called it "lo-fi to the point of tonal drabness, as the instruments seem to ring out in only one tone, that of screechy noise".
Ball-Hog or Tugboat? is the 1995 debut solo album by American musician Mike Watt, previously known for his work as the bass guitarist and songwriter for the punk rock groups Minutemen and fIREHOSE.
The Whitey Album is an album by Ciccone Youth, a side project of Sonic Youth members Steve Shelley, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, featuring contributions from Minutemen/Firehose member Mike Watt and J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr.
Mark Alan Ibold is an American bass guitarist who was a member of the indie band Pavement from 1992 to 1999, and again for their 2010 reunion. He was also in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth from 2006 until their 2011 breakup, mainly on bass but occasionally playing guitar. He is based in New York.
Donald Gene Fleming is an American musician and producer. Besides fronting a number of his own bands, Fleming has produced Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees, Teenage Fanclub and Hole.
Unboxed is a compilation album of early singles and the EP Call Now by the band Free Kitten, released in 1994.
Nice Ass was the first proper full-length album by the band Free Kitten, released in 1995 on Kill Rock Stars.
Sentimental Education is the second album by the band Free Kitten, released in 1997 on Kill Rock Stars. The album features a collaboration with DJ Spooky and a cover of Serge Gainsbourg's "Teenie Weenie Boppie". The album is named after the novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert.
Blood on the Slacks is the fourth full-length album by the American band Golden Smog. It was released by Lost Highway Records on April 24, 2007, less than a year after their previous album, Another Fine Day. The album's name is a play on Bob Dylan's 1975 album Blood On The Tracks. It was the first release from the group to not feature the Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy as part of the lineup since 1992's On Golden Smog.
Every Time Two Fools Collide is a 1978 duet album by country music singers Kenny Rogers and Dottie West.
Julia Cafritz is an American musician and guitarist who was a member of Pussy Galore and Free Kitten. She is regarded as a cult figure from the New York City noise music scene of the 1990s.
I Started Out with Nothin and I Still Got Most of It Left is the third album by Seasick Steve. It was released on September 29, 2008. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number 9 on October 6, 2008. The album is his first on the record label Warner Bros. Records, but the vinyl releases are still on his old label, Bronzerat Records.
Yunnan Colorfree is a solo album by Yoshimi P-We under the name Yoshimio. The music is a soundtrack to a documentary movie of the same name; the movie focuses on the women of Yunnan, a remote area in southern China—near Tibet, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. The album contains guest vocals by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth as well as a cover of the Sonic Youth track "Death Valley '69"
OOIOO, originally released as ∞8∞ in Japan, is the debut album by the Japanoise band OOIOO.
Action Swingers were an indie rock/garage punk band formed in the late 1980s in New York City, fronted by singer/guitarist Ned Hayden, who was the only constant member. During its history the band featured members of several other bands, both as full members and guest musicians. The band split up in 1998.
