Claw Hammer
Claw Hammer was a Noise Rock band from California that recorded records and played shows from the late 80s until the year 2000. In good noise rock fashion, their name was taken from a Captain Beefheart tune. They released six albums and some Eps and cassettes, mostly on Sympathy for the Record Industry but later on major labels such as Epitaph and Interscope. Their 2nd album covered entirely Devo’s 1978 classic, Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!; Claw Hammer’s album was cleverly titled Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Not Devo! (1991 Sympathy for the Record Industry). A year before, the group released an Ep, Double Pac Whack Attack (1990 Sympathy for the Record Industry), which featured covers by Devo, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, and Brian Eno. One quickly gets a sense of the band’s formative influences when reading this list and considering their name. Here’s the band playing Devo’s famous track, “Mongoloid”:You can imagine the rest of the album, just raw, rockin’ interpretations of Devo’s New Wave classics. Definitely check it out as well as their Ep:
Q: Are We Not Men; A: We Are Not Devo!
Ep - Double Pac Whack Attack
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