Chico stated, 'It was after a third bereavement of one of my dearest friends, which was just devastating. On that fateful day, I'm teetotal, I don't drink, and it felt like I was going out of my mind, couldn't take it, so I drank.'
Dwarves have announced their 17th studio album, titled J ENKEM, set to arrive June 6th via Greedy Records. In support of the upcoming record, the veteran punk band will embark on US tours in the spring and fall.
Zoh Amba has signed with Matador Records and announced their debut album, 'Eyes Full,' set to release on June 5. The album features Jim White on drums and Kevin Hyland on guitar.
"He's doing fantastic. He's living up here in Woodstock full time. We've been playing a lot of music. He's enjoying his retirement. He's playing piano and singing the occasional rock-and-roll cover with our family band at the Midnight Ramble, and we're having a great time."
Bach sounds like an absolute natural performing this material. While he lacks the New York brassiness of Dee Snider, the group's iconic original frontman, his own manic energy transfers well to the performance.
We are in the studio, still working towards a noisy, messy, 'unreasonably colourful' album to play LIVE... which is where U2 lives. We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens.