Violent Femmes were the coming-of-age of alt music before it had a name. There was just enough taboo in their style and lyrics, and in Gordon Gano's...
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35 Years Later, Violent Femmes is Still Challenging Norms. The long-running folk-punk band performed a uniquely chaotic set at the Vic last weekend.
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took Violent Femmes seriously. The affectations that later endeared them to fans —the ramshackle instrumentation, the spitefully witty lyrics,...
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Standing on the 'stage' area of the short-lived Beneath It All Cafe, where the Violent Femmes first performed together in 1981,...
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Seminal alt-rockers Violent Femmes will be giving fans a not-to-be-missed, one-two punch, or more accurately a two-one punch,...
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A handful of songs into the set, Gordon Gano, the lead singer and guitarist for the Violent Femmes, is reaching for a banjo.
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So it's basically a straight ahead Gordon Gano song which we added all these little touches to, and it became more than only a song, it's a kind...
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“I'm not a big anniversary guy,” Gano says, noting that the band first played the album in full on its 30th anniversary during its 2013...
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Every song is a portrait of poisonous youth, of self-loathing both internalized and externalized, of resentment and longing and rage. And, of...
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The band broke up because Gordon Gano allowed the song (for which he had sole writing credit) "Blister In The Sun" to be used in a commercial campaign.
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