June 11th, 2010
I remember an interview with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore where he talked about putting together a list of the 100 best band’s nobody’s ever heard of. I can’t seem to track down the article, sadly, but that quote has always stuck with me. In my time living in Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver I’ve discovered that every city has a stack of talented bands that never get heard of outside of a few friends and local music enthusiasts. I have a small stack of albums that few people have listened to, but I think have some of the greatest songs ever recorded on them.
One of my more recent finds was a band called Ask Alice. They were active in California a couple of years ago, put out an independently-financed album, and have since disappeared. I still throw that album on so I can hear 3 of the hardest charging punk songs I’ve been exposed to. Every time I listen I’m seized with the urge to put an ad on Craigslist, “drummer wanting to start loud angry punk band that makes people wet their pants in fear and awe whenever we play.”
Sadly, Ask Alice’s myspace page has disappeared and I don’t see twitter updates from them anymore. Hopefully they put together a new punk band that’s as good as the old one.
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