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The Avengers waren eine in Kalifornien beheimatete Punk-Rock-Band der ersten Welle. Penelope Houston, die sich später der Folk-Musik zuwandte, war Sängerin und Teil dessen, was die Band einzigartig und erinnerungswürdig macht.
Bandgeschichte
The Avengers spielten als Vorgruppe der Sex Pistols bei deren letzter Show in Winterland und ihre 4-Song-EP wurde von deren Gitarristen Steve Jones produziert. Diese 1979 auf White Noise Records veröffentlichte Aufnahme enthielt sowohl den denkwürdigen Song The American in Me, als auch Uh Oh!, White Nigger und Corpus Christi.
Eine frühere 3-Song-EP erschien 1977 aus Dangerhouse Records. Ein komplettes Album mit dem Titel The Avengers wurde 1981...
The Avengers VI may seem like another one of those archival rock & roll discoveries of the 1960s, endlessly fascinating to the mavens of surf music but easily overlooked by most listeners — but listeners would be doing themselves a serious disservice to overlook this particular band. These guys were not only good — they were superb, and all the more remarkable for a band whose median age was around 16 when they turned semi-professional and 17 when they cut their only surviving sides (which do, indeed, live up the group’s reputation). The Avengers VI started out as trio of...
The Scavengers were formed in Auckland during the mid-70s. They were four graphic art students, bent on playing a brash form of street rock, and with a knack for ludicrously silly stage pseudonyms.
The Scavengers are best known for their punk nuggets 'Mysterex' and 'True Love' that featured on the punk compilation 'AK79'.
Between 1977 and 1978 the Scavengers regularly perfomed at Auckland punk club Zwins in Durham Lane, and The Windsor Castle in Parnell.
In mid 1978 they featured on a TVNZ documentary presented by the late Neil Roberts investigated the NZ punk scene. Later that year they rerecorded...
The Mighty Avengers were an English pop group, who were formed in 1962 in Coventry, England.
The group were managed by Andrew Loog Oldham, who at the same time, also managed The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote the group's only hit, "So Much In Love" b/w "Something They Say" written by Tony Calder and Andrew Loog Oldham, which spent two weeks in the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 46 at the end of 1964. The song fared better in Australia, reaching #22.
The group released several more singles, including "Hide Your Pride and "Blue Turns To Grey"...
East Coast Avengers , the new hip-hop group composed of veteran underground emcees Esoteric, Trademarc and producer DC the Midi Alien. Their rap consists of Politics and hardcore hip hop. .
