Artist description Refusing to conform to musical trends that have come and gone, Your Mom has stayed true to their roots in what they like to call

Music Style Heavy Rock

Musical Influences Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Janes Addiction, Stooges

Similar Artists Deftones, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age

Artist History From Poughkeepsie, New York to Los Angeles, California, Your Mom has been rocking for the better part of the decade. After building a following on the New York City club circuit at places like CBGB, Webster Hall & Continental, the cruel hand of fate forced the band to move to LA in 1994. Since then the band has seen enough personal and professional ups and downs to fill a VH-1

Group Members Alex Gomez - DRUMS Conor O'Neill - VOCALS Marc Philips - BASS Josh Turner - GUITAR

Instruments guitar, bass, drums, vox

Albums Something for Nothing (1998)

Press Reviews From Alternative Press (5/99): The soulful guitar dirge may have had its heyday 10 years ago with definitive grunge bands such as Mudhoney, Tad and Bleach-ear Nirvana, but the stuff's been around a lot longer. The anarchic Aussie underground of the early '80s was full of it--the Scientists, the Birthday Party, even the Lime Spiders took twisted, harmful guitar tones and shamelessly pure angst to levels the outside world couldn't fully absorb for nearly a decade. But the Aussies claimed a common ancestor in the fuzzy, violent psych-rock of the first Stooges record, Blue Cheer and Hendrix, and God only knows where those guys got it from--the brown acid, probably. The latest addition to the dour-power movement is Your Mom, a Los Angeles quartet whose sense of aesthetics can only be described as severe. The churning miasma of downer slop that is the opening track,

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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