Hair Police
Encyclopedia
Hair Police is an American psychedelic noise
band based out of Lexington
, Kentucky
formed in 2001. They have released records through labels such as Troubleman Unlimited, Hanson Records
, Gods of Tundra, Freedom From
, and Hospital Productions. They have also released a split record on Load Records
with Viki.
Members of Hair Police have also played with other groups such as Wolf Eyes
, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Burning Star Core, Three Legged Race, Von Hemmling
, ulysses
, Warmer Milks, and ATTEMPT.
. The original line up was Robert Beatty, Ross Compton, Mike Connelly, Matt Minter, and Trevor Tremaine. The band released the History of Ghost Dad cassette to coincide with its first live show on April 13, 2001. Compton stopped playing with the band in the summer of 2001. Minter left the band in October 2002. Connelly moved to Michigan at the end of 2003 and joined Wolf Eyes
in the spring of 2005.
The band has toured extensively in the U.S. with Wolf Eyes
, Prurient
, Kites, Graveyards, Heathen Shame, No Doctors
, Nautical Almanac
, Sightings
, Mammal
, Neon Hunk
, and most notably with Sonic Youth
in August 2004.
Noise
In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is random unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise...
band based out of Lexington
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...
, Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
formed in 2001. They have released records through labels such as Troubleman Unlimited, Hanson Records
Hanson Records
Hanson Records is an American independent record label founded in Brighton, Michigan and now based in Oberlin, Ohio. It is operated by the musician Aaron Dilloway, formerly of the band Wolf Eyes.-History:...
, Gods of Tundra, Freedom From
Freedom From
Freedom From is a Minneapolis, Minnesota based record label which primarily focuses on the international noise underground genre. The label was founded in 1996 with its first official release by a San Francisco three-piece named Job. Up until early 1998, the labels focus was singularly cassettes,...
, and Hospital Productions. They have also released a split record on Load Records
Load Records
Load Records is an American noise/experimental independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island. "Load Records might possibly be in possession of the world's most challenging record roster," writes Mark Hensch of Thrash Pit...
with Viki.
Members of Hair Police have also played with other groups such as Wolf Eyes
Wolf Eyes
Wolf Eyes is a post-industrial/noise band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.-History:Wolf Eyes began as a solo project of former Nautical Almanac member Nate Young, with Aaron Dilloway joining in 1998, and John Olson in 2000...
, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Burning Star Core, Three Legged Race, Von Hemmling
Von Hemmling
Von Hemmling is the solo project of Jim McIntyre and one of many experimental music projects associated with The Elephant 6 Recording Company. Though Jim McIntyre is the band's primary performer, Hilarie Sidney and John Hill have both been members of Von Hemmling before becoming members of The...
, ulysses
Ulysses (band)
Ulysses is an indie rock band formed by Robert Schneider along with John Ferguson and Ben Fulton in the spring of 2003. Robert Beatty joined later that year. They released their first album, 010, on October 26, 2004 through Eenie Meenie Records...
, Warmer Milks, and ATTEMPT.
History
Hair Police formed in January 2001 in Lexington, KentuckyLexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...
. The original line up was Robert Beatty, Ross Compton, Mike Connelly, Matt Minter, and Trevor Tremaine. The band released the History of Ghost Dad cassette to coincide with its first live show on April 13, 2001. Compton stopped playing with the band in the summer of 2001. Minter left the band in October 2002. Connelly moved to Michigan at the end of 2003 and joined Wolf Eyes
Wolf Eyes
Wolf Eyes is a post-industrial/noise band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.-History:Wolf Eyes began as a solo project of former Nautical Almanac member Nate Young, with Aaron Dilloway joining in 1998, and John Olson in 2000...
in the spring of 2005.
The band has toured extensively in the U.S. with Wolf Eyes
Wolf Eyes
Wolf Eyes is a post-industrial/noise band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.-History:Wolf Eyes began as a solo project of former Nautical Almanac member Nate Young, with Aaron Dilloway joining in 1998, and John Olson in 2000...
, Prurient
Prurient
Prurient is the performing name of Ian Dominick Fernow. He has released material on numerous independent record labels, such as American Tapes, Hanson Records, RRRecords, Load Records, Troubleman Unlimited, Chrondritic Sound, Kitty Play Records, and his own label Hospital Productions...
, Kites, Graveyards, Heathen Shame, No Doctors
No Doctors
No Doctors was an American rock and roll band based out of California's San Francisco Bay Area. Their music drew from a wide range of styles and traditions, most prominently noise, punk, blues, metal and jazz. Members included guitarist Elvis S. deMorrow, Chauncey Chaumpers on guitar, Mr. Brians on...
, Nautical Almanac
Nautical Almanac (band)
Nautical Almanac are a noise music group based out of Baltimore Maryland with a rotating membership based around Carly Ptak and Twig Harper. -History:...
, Sightings
Sightings
Sightings was an American paranormal documentary and news television series that originally aired from April 17, 1992 to August 1, 1997 on Fox. The program began as a special titled The UFO Report: Sightings on October 18, 1991...
, Mammal
Mammal
Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...
, Neon Hunk
Neon Hunk
Neon Hunk was a husband/wife noise music duo, composed of Jennifurmium - vocals and analog synthesizer/ring modulator, and Pink Diamond - Drums, Vocals, and Modular Digital Synthesizer. Neon Hunk formed in the summer of 2000 under the name Abracadaver, but changed their name to Neon Hunk in 2001....
, and most notably with Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
in August 2004.
2002
- V/A Know Your Own Vol. 1 CDR (Lexington Action Arts Collective)
- V/A Fog People Vol. 1 CS (Animal Disguise ADR014)
- Blow Out Your Blood CD (Freedom From FF0172)
2003
- Mortuary Servants 7" (Gods of Tundra GOT040/ Freedom From FF0204)
- Movies- Live '01-'02 CS (Animal Disguise ADR033)
- S/T CS (Hospital Productions HOS-85)
- Live at the Empty Bottle July 4, 2002 VHS (Dronedsico fig. 50/ Gods of Tundra GOT046/ Freedom From FF0220)
- V/A Closet Full of Clothes LP (White Denim #4)
- Hair Police/Viki split CD (Load Records LOAD047)
- Hair Police/Viki split LP (Scratch and Sniff Entertainment SNSE030)
- Hair Police/Cadaver in Drag split CS (Husk Records HUSK #10)
- Probe Cutting CS (Gods of Tundra GOT052)
2004
- Rattlers Echo 3" CDR (Chondritic Sound CH-44)
- Obedience Cuts LP (Gods of Tundra GOT055)
- Obedience Cuts CD (Freedom From FF0250)
- Gnarly Times lathe 6" (Gutter Lathe Society GLS-06)
- V/A Secrets and Sounds CD (Animal Disguise ADR025)
- Your Skull in the Gutter CS (Gods of Tundra GOT060)
- Hair Police/Crystal Fantasy 10" (LDR/HPR)
- Dune Sores CS (Rampart RAM005)
- Leech Pit CS (Gods of Tundra GOT064)
- V/A Airwaves for Your Hairwaves: Live from WNUR (WNURWNURWNUR-FM is a 7200 watt radio station based in Evanston, Illinois that broadcasts to Chicago and its northern suburbs. Northwestern University owns the station's FCC license.-History:...
, Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityNorthwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
)
2005
- Hair Police/Dead Machines split LP (Gods of Tundra/American Tapes)
- Drawn Dead CD (Hanson HN124)
- Hair Police CD (Hospital Productions HOS-85a)
- 030505 CS (Mountaain DOOR002)
- Dead Machines/Hair Police- Illegal the Raw CS (Fag Tapes FT019)
- Constantly Terrified CD/LP (Troubleman Unlimited TMU148)
- Live!!! split w/ Wolf EyesWolf EyesWolf Eyes is a post-industrial/noise band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.-History:Wolf Eyes began as a solo project of former Nautical Almanac member Nate Young, with Aaron Dilloway joining in 1998, and John Olson in 2000...
CS (Purple Stuff)
2006
- Prescribed Burning CDR (Gods of Tundra)
- V/A Sonic Protest 2006 (Sonic Protest)
- untitled CS/CDR (Gods of Tundra)
- Live in Lexington CDR (American Tapes)
- Drawn Dead LP (Weird Forest)
- Prescribed Burning LP (Hospital Productions)
- Strict 7" (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Hair Police/Pengo LP (Gods of Tundra)
2007
- Blind Kingdom LP (Ultra Eczema)
- Fear of Sleep CS (Hospital Productions)
- The Empty Quarter CD (Harbinger Sound)