Screws

Screws

Shake Your Monkey

In The Red

Mick Collins and the Screws have toured the US and Japan since the release of their debut of two years ago. The Screws feature the guitar and vocal stylings of Terri Wahl (formerly of the Red Aunts) as well as a new rhythm section for their sophomore effort. This time around the Screws have shed some of their punk rock attack in favor of a more R'n'B/blues beat. While Terri and Mick's guitar assault remains pure no-wave psychosis, the tone is more juke joint than slam pit this time around. Ike Turner, John Lee Hooker and even techno giants Groove Armada get mangled by the Screws' treatment. Mick Collins says, "If you can't dance or fuck to it, then it ain't rock n' roll." Well, this is rock n' roll. "Ladies and gentlemen, let's please recognize The Screws. [They] embody rock and roll at its most happily misanthropic. Their … show at EJ's was a rowdy beer-spiller and their self-titled album on In the Red Records reeks of grime and poison. While the Screws' blend of lobotomized blues and fuzz-destroyed rock and roll certainly won't win a lot of crossover sales from members of the Celine Dion Fan Club, it's perfect for … odes to transgression." -Willamette Week

Screws

Hate-filled Classics

In The Red

***This debut album is the latest in a long, highly enjoyable series of fucked up punk rock action from the kitty-tweaked brain of MICK COLLINS (Gories, Blacktop, Dirtbombs, etc.). Riding shotgun on Collins' newest rampage through the halls of sobriety and good manners are fellow window-smashing goons: TERRI WAHL of the RED AUNTS; DAN BROWN of ROYAL TRUX, '68 COMEBACK and JOHNNY HASH; and MARTY MOORE also of '68 Comeback and Johnny Hash. Do people ransack everything in sight just because? People do. Twelve hate-filled classics all louder, more bombastic and meaner than even Mick's usual but not ordinary lo-fi garage wail. Warped blues, wacked jungle rhythms and enough distorted guitar to pierce the brain of any listener caught without a helmet. Includes covers of tracks by Redd Kross, The Mad, and Francis Xavier Zappa.