The Awesome Snakes
Encyclopedia
Awesome Snakes was a two-person punk rock
band from Minneapolis
, Minnesota
, founded as a side project by Annie Holoien and Danny Henry of The Soviettes
. Their instrumentation is just bass and drums, with the bass played through a fuzzbox
resulting in a sound not unlike the band We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It
.
issued the Awesome Snakes' full length debut CD, Venom. It featured fifteen tracks recorded in much higher fidelity than the debut cassette by their friend Ross and mastered by Dave Gardener and features a guest appearance by Twin Cities MC P.O.S.
.
Awesome Snakes appeared on the Crustacean Records DVD "Drown Out The Daylights", which was released in July 2008. Their final release was a digital-only four track EP entitled Snake Cake, released on Ass Records on October 12, 2009. The duo's last show as Awesome Snakes was on March 19, 2010 in St. Paul, MN; the same night as their old band The Soviettes
' release show for their Rarities
album.
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band from Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, founded as a side project by Annie Holoien and Danny Henry of The Soviettes
The Soviettes
The Soviettes are a punk rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 2001. The group was composed of Annie , Sturgeon , Susy , and Danny , all of whom switched off singing duties.-History:...
. Their instrumentation is just bass and drums, with the bass played through a fuzzbox
Fuzzbox
A fuzzbox is a device for deliberately introducing distortion in music.Fuzzbox may also refer to:* We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It or Fuzzbox, a 1980s English pop-punk quartet* FuzzBox, a video-game developer that developed Cyber Org...
resulting in a sound not unlike the band We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It
We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It
We've Got A Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It were an English alternative rock group. Formed in Birmingham in 1985, the all-female quartet originally consisted of Vix, Maggie Dunne, Jo Dunne and Tina O'Neill. The band's name was shortened to Fuzzbox for the U.S. release of their first album...
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History
In 2004, a cassette-only label, Home Taping is Killing the Record Industry, released the debut release by Awesome Snakes. In July 2006, Crustacean RecordsCrustacean Records
Crustacean Records is a record company from Wisconsin, United States, founded in 1994.-History:The label was founded by current majority owner Chris Langkamp. The debut release was Fetus by Crab Shack, the band Chris Langkamp played bass with, and was cassette only...
issued the Awesome Snakes' full length debut CD, Venom. It featured fifteen tracks recorded in much higher fidelity than the debut cassette by their friend Ross and mastered by Dave Gardener and features a guest appearance by Twin Cities MC P.O.S.
P.O.S.
Stefon Alexander, better known by his stage name P.O.S, is an American rapper, singer and multi-instrumentalist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is currently signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment and is a founding member of the label/collective Doomtree...
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Awesome Snakes appeared on the Crustacean Records DVD "Drown Out The Daylights", which was released in July 2008. Their final release was a digital-only four track EP entitled Snake Cake, released on Ass Records on October 12, 2009. The duo's last show as Awesome Snakes was on March 19, 2010 in St. Paul, MN; the same night as their old band The Soviettes
The Soviettes
The Soviettes are a punk rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 2001. The group was composed of Annie , Sturgeon , Susy , and Danny , all of whom switched off singing duties.-History:...
' release show for their Rarities
Rarities (Soviettes album)
Rarities is the fourth album, and first compilation, by the Minneapolis punk rock band The Soviettes. It is a selection of the group's lesser-known material, including their early EPs. It was released free on the internet and also in vinyl LP format...
album.
Members
- Annie Holoien (aka "Annie Awesome") - bass, vocals. She is currently performing with the God Damn Doo Wop Band. She also previously performed with Danny in International RobotInternational RobotInternational Robot were a punk rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 2000. All of the groups members went onto form other notable bands on the Minneapolis punk scene, including the Soviettes, Awesome Snakes, France Has The Bomb, the Dummies, the Prostitutes, the Voltz, the Dynamiters,...
and The SoviettesThe SoviettesThe Soviettes are a punk rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 2001. The group was composed of Annie , Sturgeon , Susy , and Danny , all of whom switched off singing duties.-History:...
. - Danny Henry (aka "Danny Snakes") - drums, vocals. He has previously performed with International Robot, the Soviettes and France Has The BombFrance Has The BombFrance Has The Bomb is an alternative rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, described as "The new sound of Minneapolis!" in 2009 by Rolling Stone magazine. The group consists of Srini Radhakrishna , Hideo Takahashi , David Storberg and Mike Rose...
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Discography
| Title | Release date | Notes | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awesome Snakes | 2004 | Cassette only release | Home Taping is Killing the Record Industry |
| Venom | 2006 | CD | Crustacean Records Crustacean Records Crustacean Records is a record company from Wisconsin, United States, founded in 1994.-History:The label was founded by current majority owner Chris Langkamp. The debut release was Fetus by Crab Shack, the band Chris Langkamp played bass with, and was cassette only... |
| Snake Cake | October 12, 2009 | Digital download only, 4 track EP | Ass Records |
Reception
- Wisconsin's "Local Sounds Magazine" said "With huge riffs, huge tone and huge humor, the Awesome Snakes may be your new favorite band."
- UltimateGuitar.com said "The album is the sound of people having fun, and people being honest about their musical intentions."
- Round The Dial magazine said "If their huge,bouncy sound doesn’t get you out on the dance floor, I don’t know what will."
- Dane101.com, an online publication for Madison and Dane County, Wisconsin said "2006 will go down in history as the year of the snakes."
- Pulse of the Twin Cities said "No other band this year packed as much fun into their album as this Soviettes-spawned duo." and "it’s a tight and virtually flawless little package"