Chaindive soundtrack12/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Surely there's a double entendre in there somewhere. Latest sludgy single "Banana" sums up the band's humor well: " I got a problem with you stealing my banana/ And when I find you I will show you the hammer," Negloria threatens. ![]() Opener "2 to 10" is all distortion, while the wailing riff in "Surf City" drives home the track's seaside theme. In true punk rock fashion, Calhoun recorded the Pussy Gillette album himself, to a four-track cassette.ĭominated by mid-tempo barn burners, Pussy Gillette specializes in mostly fun, slightly nasty garage rock, the kind that bursts in and out in under three minutes. He met Prager, who also plays bass in deviant punk institution Fuckemos, back then, when Prager was drumming for noise legends Cherubs the first time around. Originally from Pennsylvania, the guitarist began playing in bands as a teenager and moved to Austin in 1990 – drawn by the promise of cheap rent. "I've been in projects where we labor over things for a really long time and I don't know if they ever come out any better than they do just making it up really quick," Calhoun reasons over a cigarette. They put their sprawling, 19-song LP to tape over just three days last March. The band's core pair still emphasize spontaneity when it comes to writing and recording. " I got better things to do than sit and lie in bed with you," the bassist sneers. At less than 90 seconds, the amelodic track elephant stomps out the LP, Negloria's yelps piercing through Calhoun's guitar howl. "I Don't Wanna Be Right," the product of that spur-of-the-moment writing session, appears on Pussy Gillette's eponymous debut album, out November 19. The duo wrote their first song that night. One day, on a whim, her longtime friend Calhoun – a veteran of Austin's underground whose past projects include Chaindrive and Gibby Haynes & His Problem and currently plays bass in heavy psych melters We Are the Asteroid – invited her to jam. "I just had a bass that I would kind of stare at, but I didn't really stick to it." "I didn't know I could do any of this until I actually did it," the singer, 36, says over coffee at Cherrywood, weeks before the gig. Little does the club crowd know, this is her first project. Negloria, however, chats up the audience after every song, a bravado in her voice akin to that of a rockstar entertaining a stadium. Before the Aughts garage sensations can grace the Mohawk stage, Austin punks Pussy Gillette are here to prime the crowd.Ĭalhoun keeps it cool – shades on, lips pursed to keep his cigarette steady. ![]() It's Halloween and Swedish rockers the Hives are about to close out the final night of the Levitation festival. Drummer Brent Prager, in a banana suit, supplies the concussive beat. With a snappy snare, Austin's best-named band comes to life.Ī leather-clad Negloria – or Blackula, as she's known tonight – fingerpicks a fuzzy bass line and Calhoun, in a skeleton suit, scratches out power chords next to her. "You suckas better hold your breath, 'Cause we're Pussy Gillette, and this gun's for hire!" Pussy Gillette: (l-r) Brent Prager, Masani Negloria, and Nathan Calhoun (Photo by John Anderson)
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