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Avengers were formed in San Francisco, in the first wave of American Punk. Penelope Houston was the lead singer, primary songwriter, and her persona was a large part of the draw for the act. The other band members were James Wilsey (bass), D. Furious (drums), and Greg Ingraham (guitar). Critic Greil Marcus once said Avengers were, "...San Francisco's best punk band - in their moments, they were, you knew, better than any other band playing that night anywhere in the world." Avengers gained much publicity when they opened for the Sex Pistols in San Francisco, for their legendary final show...

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 band was founded in the late eighties, but there never was one stable lineup and members were changing all the time. A lot of musicians left the group in panical escapes to pursue their own projects, preferring the more ambitious & established sound. Those remaining, I mean, this confused bundle of miserable heroes proudly began to call themselves „the core“. Curiousity & barbarian infantilism completely defaced the sound, stepping further into the land of improvised kakophonic craziness, leaving behind the boring beats our ears got tired of hearing. Nearly every session was recorded with low budget equipment - oh,...