punk rock

Band founders Patricia Day and Kim Nekroman first met when Day's now-defunct band, the punk rock group Peanut Pump Gun, opened for Nekroman's psychobilly band, Nekromantix, at a festival in Cologne, Germany in 1996. Despite both belonging to the subculture scene of Copenhagen, Denmark, the two had never met before, but they became friends over their mutual interest in alternative music. The two would eventually marry.

Chicks on Speed are a female electroclash band, born when Alex and Melissa met at the Munich Art Academy in 1997. Chicks on Speed's core members are Melissa Logan (Upstate NY, USA) and Alex Murray-Leslie (Bowral, Australia), who collaborate with amongst others Anat Ben-David (Tel Aviv, Israel), Kathi Glas (Berlin, Germany) and A.L. Steiner (NY, USA). Around Chicks on Speed there is grouped a large and ever-changing collective of musicians, producers, fashion and graphic artists, designers, film and video makers, and so on.

The group LYRES are a Boston-based band, lead by POKEMONOJEFF and formed with 1st rehearsal on New Years Day 1979. DMZ was one pre-Lyres line-up, with songwriting and rhythm section from DMZ forming the group Lyres as 1978 came to a close. As with many Boston bands, the story is quite complicated, and going to side-bands and linked bands drive one to a sticky web Pete Frame's LYRES band tree is reprinted in A Promise Is A Promise CD on Matador.

Shot Baker plays an honest form of aggressive punk rock with driving melodies and addictive choruses. Being referred to as "a continuation of the best Chicago punk has to offer," Shot Baker has definitely been making their presence known in the music scene. The band possesses many great qualities but their overall enthusiasm and passion is what puts them on a different level from many bands playing today.