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The Mummies are a garage rock band from San Bruno, California, with influences of surf rock, 1950s and 1960s garage rock bands such as The Sonics and more contemporary garage punk bands as Thee Mighty Caesars. Their first show was at the Chi Chi club in San Francisco in December of 1988. The Mummies are especially known for their matching mummy costumes they wore on stage and their impertinent attitude that they brought with them. They have also been known for releasing their music only on vinyl for many years, but have finally given in to the CD format in...

"Mummi kutoo" is Finnish for "Grandma's knitting". First released in 1975 by the immortal Finnish Love Records (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Records ), Mummi Kutoo's self-titled debut is much more than hip psychedelic-folk rock: the album's soft dreamscape exhibits a thorough understanding of melodic orchestral pop, fragile coffeehouse jazz, dixieland, cabaree music and light AM country. Their style is a warm and charming, harmonious and nicely arranged obscure, avant-folkpop and sing-alongs, which are all taken to a deliberate hippie oddballity and a rather weird happy feeling. The debut album was staying decades as cult classic and collector's grail. The projected second album (Mummi...

Over 5000 years ago, from the dry stretches of the not-so-fertile crescent wandered a nomadic, foul smelling people. A robust, well-endowed, and manly tribe, they were united through ancient rituals involving instruments capable of infinite fonkiness and overt sekshul innuendo. The Pharaoh, a mean mother (shutcho' mouth), hated the nomads and their ability to shred like a mofo all up in that biatch. But more than that, he hated the power of their righteous grooving to make drop the tunics of his five luscious teenage daughters. One night, the Pharaoh found the nomads dressed as mummies and creating grooves in...