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Artist description:
Caustic, erratic, unorthodox music that is loosely tied to a scene people once knew as "Punk Rock." But now, Avril Lavigne is Punk so we are Pop, I guess since we are the oposite of her.

Music Style:
Punk Rock... the atypical kind. You know those weird songs on all the Punk albums in the 80s (Fear - "We Destroy the Family", Dayglo Abortions - "Black Sabbath", Rudimentary Peni - "Vampire State Building", Black Flag - "Black Love", Angry Samoans - "They Saved Hitler's Cock")? There were always 2-4 of them per album. We are influenced by those songs, not the other 7-12. We are also influenced by the 1-3 really revved up, punky songs that you can find on the New Wave albums of the late 70s (Joe Jackson - "Got the Time", DEVO - "Be Stiff", Blondie - "Youth Nabbed as Sniper", XTC - "Chain of Command", Ultravox - "Young Savage").

I guess you could call us Post-Hardcore, but we're really more Post-Post-Hardcore, or post-hardcore Post-Punk, or Artcore, if you will.
Why this name?
Because we yearn for the age when the Japanese dominated the world economy and produced a lot of cartoons featuring girls with really big eyes (esp. before the whole tentacle rape thing came en vogue).
Band History:
Ex-and Current Members of: The Bends, Blood Agent 208, the Animatronics
Your influences?

Primary:

Crass, DEVO, Naked Raygun, Wire, Joy Division, Rudimentary Peni, the Effigies, Tubeway Army, Negative Approach, Subhumans, The Monks, The Misunderstood.

Secondary:

Adverts, Tar, Big Black, Zounds, Omega Tribe, Alley Cats, X (Australia), Helmet, Gang of Four, Swell Maps, Fear, Vibrators, The Music Machine, The Fuses, Exitstance, Pixies, Elastica, Adam and the Ants, the Homosexuals, The Kinks, Elmer Gantry, Les Fleur de Lys, Carpathian Forest, Blue Oyster Cult, Thin Lizzy, T. Rex, Khold, Tulus, Horna

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