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The Shack story is one of music's greatest legends, a tale of such woe and wonder it defies exaggeration. It incorporates hardship, bereavement and chaotic misadventure, but above all it tells The tale of beautiful music triumphing over trouble and tragedy. And that's where we begin: with the beautiful music. In the '80's, the two brothers from the Kensington area in Liverpool were singer and guitarist with The Pale Fountains, an effervescent pop group who were signed to Virgin for the ridiculous (in those days) sum of £150,000 and commercially imploded under the weight of two albums in 1986. The...

Sugarshack was formed back in 2001 in an abandoned house of St-David d’Yamaska by Alexandre Chenette and his cousin David Cyr. The duo was soon rejoined by high school friends Alexandre Tessier, Mathieu Lemay and Jean-Michel Simard. By laziness and lack of better options, the band was named Sugarshack, the "Sugar Shack" being the bar where Vanilla Ice meets his “crew” in the 1991 movie "Cool as Ice". Unaware at the time of the post-rock etiquette, the band described its music as instrumental stucco, crafted to be listened to laying on a bed, staring at a stucco ceiling. Characterized by...

This Houston, Texas five-piece growls and roars with timeless, rebellious "we won't be kept down" rock and roll energy, kicking out the jams with one rollicking two-minute three-chord skuzz-rock anthem after another. Sugar Shack's not-quite-controlled chaos marries the sound of pre-punk '60s garage rock -- especially the acid-influenced dementia of Texas acts like the 13th Floor Elevators and the Moving Sidewalks -- with the angry, thunderous bite of early '80s Los Angeles punk outfits like the Misfits. Singer Mark Lockridge's raspy yelp is second to none, and guitarists Andy Wright and Kyle Otis's fuzzy guitar attack skips and dances frenetically....

A group of five foul mouthed surf zombies hailing from the decrepit sands of Wormwood Beach, CA. http://www.facebook.com/goreshack http://www.goreshack.bandcamp.com http://www.goreshack.bigcartel.com .