Smegma (band) explained

Smegma
Background:	group_or_band
Origin:	Pasadena, California, U.S.
Genre:	Noise, free improvisation
Years Active:	1973–present

Smegma is an American experimental noise group formed in Pasadena, California in 1973.^[1] Author Richard Meltzer became their vocalist in the late 1990s. The group was included in the Nurse with Wound list and was featured on the cover of the August 2006 edition of The Wire.^[2]

Partial discography

• Sing Popular Songs (1974; 1998)
• Can't Look Straight/Flashcards (1979)
• Glamour Girl 1941 (1979)
• Soundtracks 1–5 (1980)
• Pigs for Lepers (1982)
• Nattering Naybobs of Negativity (1987)
• Smell the Remains (1988)
• Ism (1994)
• The Goodship Poleshiner (1995)
• Songs from the Motion Picture Theodore Rex (1995)
• The Mad Excitement, the Barbaric Pulsations, the Incomparable Rhythms of... (1996)
• Smegma Plays/Merzbow Plays Smegma (1996)
• Glamour Girl 1941 (1997)
• Rumblings^[3]
• Tiromancy
• The Beast
• Thirty Years of Service
• Live at No Fun Fest
• One/Don't Tell Roberto
• The Good Fight/Blues for M./Self-Hypnosis

External links

• • Official Smegma MySpace page
• Smegma Discogs page

Notes and References

1. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p173923/biography|pure_url=yes}} Smegma]. AllMusic. April 20, 2007.
2. Issue 270 August 2006. The Wire. April 20, 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070223183351/http://www.thewire.co.uk/back/2006_08.php. February 23, 2007.
3. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22343-rumblings?artist_title=22343-rumblings{{dead link|date=May 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}