Artist description We're not metal, we're not hardcore, nor ska, nor alternative, nor any of the other journalistic phrases made to pigeonhole rock musics. We just rock, period. Not watered down in anyway, pure rock music.

Music Style all kinds

Musical Influences velvet underground, guided by voices, devo, the blake babies, the lemonheads, death of samantha, sonic youth, dino. jr., ween

Artist History We started in 1994 in Wickliffe, Ohio as a means to just pass time, eventually a local band called Chump got us shows, two of them in 1997. At the end of 1997 the two members of Curmudgeon met the person they'd been talking to over the net from Strongsville, that was Derek de Prator. He joined the band a few months later and they premiered the new lineup on August 31st, 1998 at the Euclid Tavern in Cleveland. After recording an EP and a almost finished album, he left. Soon after, the very cool Jessica Tag joined and continue to make great music.

Group Members Billy Kotchkoski, Chris Purcell, and Jessica Tag

Instruments Drums, cymbals, guitars, strings, cords, amps, 8-tracks, 4-tracks, tapes, cds, bass guitars, bass strings, broken cymbals, mics, headphones, and the anti-mainstream boredom mind-control machine

Albums CD/CS: Manila Folder Fulla Hits, It Only Takes A Minute To Ruin Yr. Life, Lets Get Bloated EP and the older cassette releases: Spaghetti Western, K-Mart Style, Come On Everybody Get Depressed

Press Reviews "...have nearly earned poster child status in cleveland's underground rock scene" -Spot Magazine, 1/14/99 "adding angry youth saracasm to edgy guitar driven music that mixes Sonic Youth-like experimentation with '80s post-punk edginess and lo-fi sloppiness" Laura DeMarco (Cleveland Free Times, 12/98)

Additional Info There's nobody quite like you.

Location Wickliffe, OH - USA

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