Artist description Four men, between 5'6" and 5'11," various ethnic backgrounds.

Music Style Art-trash spaz pain-in-the-ass core

Musical Influences Tom Waits, Residents, Naked City, Butthole Surfers, Fantomas

Similar Artists Butthole Surfers, Melvins, Minor Threat, Naked City, Helmet, Fantomas

Artist History 10/99-5/00: Rehearsed on headphones in bedroom. 06/00-3/01: Rehearsed in basement apartment. 3/01: Apartment burned down, members left town. 10/01-Present: Rehearse in "Silence of the Lambs" sort of basement, equipment covered in dirt.

Group Members David Dines - Bass / Patrick Kim - Lead Guitar / Matt Parish - Vocals, Other Guitar / Jonathan Ruhe - Drums

Instruments Drums, Electrical Bass, Electrical Guitars, Human Voice

Press Reviews "The Noise": HO-AG Demo 2001 4-song CD / This noisy, self-proclaimed "art-trash" four-piece cleverly melds lo-fi punk with slacker attitude, metal grit, amd trippy avant guarde. Picture a garage version of Count Zero mixed with sludge of The Melvins, the vocal madness of the Butthole Surfers, the random bursts of Naked City, and the surf-abilly of 8-Ball Shifter, and you might crack the surface of this band's demon possessor. Ho-Ag is disturbing, yet strangely compelling. Their drummer refers to this kind of music as "pain-in-the-ass-core." Make more soon! E-mail: ho-ag@hotmail.com (Joel Simches)

Additional Info Have survived one rehearsal space burning down.

Location Boston, MA - USA

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