Popular Atlanta-based noise-rock outfit Whores. The band released several EPs and singles before unleashing their crushing full-length debut Gold. Unfortunately, the band saw setbacks after a couple of injuries to Lemback -- including a fall onstage in Toronto that damaged his knee badly enough to require surgery -- slowed their activity and forced the guitarist to perform seated.
The latter tune was the first to feature new drummer Douglas Jennings Barrett, who joined the band in It wasn't until last year that rumblings of a highly anticipated second full-length effort surfaced with the new tune "Imposter Syndrome. The band returned to San Francisco last November, playing a blistering set in support of Bay Area experimental punk legends Oxbow. April saw the release of the new salvo from Whores.
Another visceral blast of tuneful noise-rock, the latest effort equals the intensity and fury of the band's best work. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and producer for KTVU.
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