Sound description: Instrumental surf-punk
RIYL: Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, The Sandblasters, Sleazy Mancini, Pixies
City: Dallas, TX
Web site: http://www.themurgatroyds.com
There is no manual or instruction booklet for what The Murgatroyds are doing, but they are doing it anyway. Blazing a swerving, jagged trail across the D/FW music scene leaving a path of grieving widows and violated gorillas to wonder...
"What the hell was that?!"
It starts like this: A dust storm of energy starts a brewin' and carries across the plain. Soon it is joined by a F5 class funnel of Surf Rock, along the way it picks up a bunch of 2 x 4s with nails through them and starts slinging 'em around the Punk Rock Trailer Park, then finally a huge comet streaks across the sky and everything gets blow'd up...
Then they start their second song...
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Man or Astroman?, The Reverend Horton Heat, Dick Dale, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Link Wray, punk rock, Whataburger
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Bop_A_Lena, Camille Cortinas, Michael Harberg, Todd Maternowski, rliberio, todd_thompson
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Please see..."The Liar and the Takers"
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