Concert flier for a Squirrel Bait show at Tewligans
Background information
Origin
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Genres
Post-hardcore
punk rock
indie rock[1]
emocore
Years active
1983–1987
Labels
Homestead
Past members
Peter Searcy David Grubbs Brian McMahan Rich Schuler Britt Walford Clark Johnson Ben Daughtrey
Squirrel Bait was an American punk rock band from Louisville, Kentucky active from 1983 to 1987. Squirrel Bait's dense, moody, melodic hardcore sound, featuring pronounced tempo shifts, foreshadowed the grunge sound of the late 1980s as well as math rock. Squirrel Bait, along with Hüsker Dü, are often noted as precursors to the emocore ("emotional hardcore") sound that arose from the D.C. hardcore punk scene with bands like Rites of Spring, Beefeater and Fugazi.
Squirrel Bait signaled the second coming of American punk – bands of little brothers and sisters who got to grow up on Black Flag and Hüsker Dü without a preparatory course in Supertramp. ... Like a hundred other little Düs across the country, Squirrel Bait managed to make a couple of records before spintering off to form five more bands. Unlike most of that punk rock loam, the members of Squirrel Bait chewed up their legacy and shat out something curious and consequential.[2]
^Allmusic.com
^Weisband, E & Marks,,C (editors) 1995. Spin Alternative Record Guide 1st ed. Vintage books, ISBN 0-679-75574-8
SquirrelBait was an American punk rock band from Louisville, Kentucky active from 1983 to 1987. SquirrelBait's dense, moody, melodic hardcore sound,...
Kentucky. He was a guitarist and vocalist in the seminal rock bands SquirrelBait and Slint. After the breakup of the latter in November 1990, he went...
punk band SquirrelBait. Walford left the band following their first recording session while McMahan went on to tour and record SquirrelBait's two albums...
studio album by the American punk rock band SquirrelBait, released in 1987 through Homestead Records. SquirrelBait disbanded after the album's release and...
by Louisville, Kentucky guitarist David Grubbs after his former band SquirrelBait folded in 1987. Grubbs had moved to Washington, D.C. to attend Georgetown...
The Breeders, Evergreen, The For Carnation, King Kong, Will Oldham, SquirrelBait, Tortoise, or Zwan. "King's Approach", created around 1994, is a ten-minute...
composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist. He was a founding member of SquirrelBait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol. He has also played in Codeine, The Red Krayola...
Kentucky. In 1986, Buckler formed Slint with David Pajo and former SquirrelBait members Brian McMahan and Britt Walford. He performed on Slint's 1987...
processing City University of New York David Grubbs Member of the bands SquirrelBait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol. PhD English University of Chicago Sir Lenny...
in Louisville, Kentucky, after the dissolution of two local bands: SquirrelBait and Maurice. The founding members included David Pajo (guitar), Britt...
most associated with) to musique concrète. Grubbs, a former member of SquirrelBait formed the band in Chicago in 1991 from the final line-up of the group...
Louisville hardcore punk group SquirrelBait in the 1980s. After SquirrelBait disbanded, Searcy (along with SquirrelBait drummer Ben Daughtrey) formed...
Sirens Something Corporate Spanish Love Songs The Spill Canvas Split Lip SquirrelBait Static Dress The Starting Line Stavesacre Story of the Year Sum 41 Sunny...
eponymous album "Kid Dynamite" (song), the first single and lead track on SquirrelBait's 1987 album Skag Heaven Nickname of J. J. Evans, a character played...
performed by the Mekons “Kid Dynamite” Written by David Grubbs Performed by SquirrelBait “The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory” Written by Robert Pollard...
Bands formed Badmingtons Dead Milkmen Neon Christ Niet NOFX Samhain SquirrelBait Rich Kids on LSD Albums Bad Brains – Rock for Light Bad Religion – Into...
is dedicated to Ochs, on her 1986 album of that name. The punk band SquirrelBait cited Ochs as a major creative influence in the liner notes of their...
folk song collector Brian McMahan, rock musician known for work in SquirrelBait, Slint, Palace Brothers, The For Carnation, and King Kong Will Oldham...
along with album covers by Hüsker Dü, the Replacements, the Minutemen, SquirrelBait, Sonic Youth and Slint. On May 31, 2018, Marshall reunited with Turner...
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