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AT RED 7 on Friday Feb 22. Sort of an old punk reunion of sorts, all three bands The Hickoids, Sharon Tates Baby, and Rogers Porn Collection hail with members from the old school punk scene in Texas.
The Hickoids. Alternately categorized as “cow punk” and “hard corn,” the Hickoids embodied a most extreme synthesis of punk and country during their mid-Eighties Austin reign. The quintet’s beer-splashing, bale-thrashing, genital-brandishing performances bore all the confrontational hallmarks of punk, yet they actually won Best Country Band at the 1985 Austin Music Awards.
Sharon Tate’s Baby. An original punk band staple, Sharon Tate’s Baby, brings on a barrage of punk, pop, and rock music. They were originally formed in the late 70’s in Austin Texas and found famed at the infamous Raul’s Club, the first punk club in Austin. Along with two original members and now including members from Lester Bangs and the Delinquents, STB is in fine form and unleashing there best effort yet.
Rogers Porn Collection. featuring…. Pat Roach from L A ’s Dimwits (members of the Dickies and Angry Samoans) Rob Buford from such early 80’s Austin punk bands, Crotch Rot and Rogers Diaper Collection — Wes Texas from The Bulemics and mid 90’s H-Town punk honeys, Stinkerbell-—-——Roger (EL BO) – man of mystery??? —-~~- Pat Doyle from the Offenders and Felix Griffin from DRI (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) -~~ Thats the short version of who we are—-old school punk done by old school punks.

Posted 6 months ago.

andrewfuertsch said:

The Hickoids invented COW PUNK.
Here’s some info from Trouser Press.
Cure the Butthole Surfers’ hallucinatory madness but not their Texas junk-culture mentality or careening noise. Add country-western rhythms and some revved-up guitar licks, and that pretty much describes Austin’s zealous Hickoids, America’s only hard-corn (white thrash?) band. Whether they’re adding lyrics to a familiar TV theme (“Williamanza”) or delivering a cruel ode to one-armed farmers (“O.A.F. Anthem”), the band’s colorful guitar work, four-on-the-floor punk overdrive and depraved sense of humor (“Animal Husbandry” mates man and cow) make We’re in It for the Corn a raucous and funny souvenir of the Lone Star state. (The cassette adds four bonus cuts.)
Following the 7-inch Hard Corn EP (two originals and two freewheeling covers: “Corn Foo Fighting” and the Eagles’ “Take It Easy”), the Hickoids ease up on the punk for more of a Tex-Mex/country flavor on the relatively slick second album, Waltz a Crossdress Texas. Using steel guitar, piano, trumpet and (yes!) flugelhorn, well-played jokes about transvestites, beer, sex and trucks are loaded with local color and the Hickoids’ winningly sociopathic outlook.

Posted 6 months ago.

andrewfuertsch said:

Have you heard of the original punk scene in Austin. Here’s a short history from Wikipedia.
Raul’s was a live music nightclub at 2610 Guadalupe Street in Austin, Texas in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which specialised in punk rock music. regulars there were: Sharon Tate’s Baby, The Delinquents, The MiƧtakes, Boy Problems, MDC, and then later, the Big Boys, and The Dicks. Larger story at

Posted 6 months ago.