Artist description Urban flecked acoustic lounge-folk with a delicate combination of smartass sarcasm, implicit social commentary, wacky hijinx, and vegetables. [As described by Michael Lewis and Bosco T. Matrix]

Music Style The Undisputed Punk Kings of Kitsch Rock

Musical Influences Punk Rock, Lounge Music, anything extreme in its own idiom.

Artist History Back History: Buck and Dave crossed paths for the first time in a hotel bar in Jakarta, Indonesia. A chance meeting--extraordinary, given that Dave had been performing with Buck's late cousin for some time in Canada. Both men were in Jakarta to get away from personal crises and discovered that they had a mutual understanding of the nature of pop culture, the greatness of it's trashiest icons, and a sick need to be part of that business they perceive as show. They became regulars on the Jakarta karaoke circuit, building an interpersonal chemistry and an army of detractors, eventually forming a lounge duo called Simon & Pumpernickel. After changing their name to Crosby, Shameless, Naked, and Young, they realized that both monikers were completely lost on the Indonesians and the international business travelers they were playing to, so they reverted to the name Naked & Shameless. After being "discovered" by MC Skidd Wong, they returned to North America to set up shop in Chicago.

Group Members Buck Naked: The voice & master of miscellaneous blowables and beatables. Dave Shameless: Strummables, vocal dissonance, barstool.

Instruments Voices, acoustic guitar, incidental noises

Albums Step Da Fuck Back - Full Frontal Mix (Live, 2000); Drink, Ya Bastard! EP (2001), 13 Drinking Songs (2001), Sexxxy Americanz (2002)

Press Reviews "If you like drinking music, Naked and Shameless are professionals. With an album full of songs with titles like 'Drinking Song #4' and 'Are You Drinking With Me Jesus,' they're a lot like Irish folk songs, with extremely proficient, fervent acoustic guitar, and serious but jokey storytelling vocals. And even though the songs are about topics like whiskey dick, cocaine and hookers, they're quite beautiful..." (Portland Mercury; 8/02) "...Is it any wonder this group's a hit in frat houses throughout the midwest?" (San Fransico Examiner; 8/02) "...drinking, women, drinking some more and women, all designed to bring out the inner Neanderthal. Very rude and oh so crude. Think of 'The Man Show' set to music..." (Allan Clark, Cool and Strange Music Magazine #22; 8/01) "...Buck and Dave are well versed in their influences--everything from lounge folk-rock to full-throttle punk--you can't help but listen to these whacked-out schitzoids hurlte down the path of self-destruction. Check 'em out before they wind up relegated, once again, to the Jakarta kareoke circuit." (Impact Weekley; Dayton, OH; 12/00)

Location Chicago, IL - USA

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