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San Diego, United States (1996 – 2006)

San Diego, CA’s GoGoGo Airheart began writing in 1996 at the hands of core members Mike Vermillion and Ashish Vyas. After two years of relentless basement rehearsals and a string of homemade cassettes, GGGAH were picked up by local indie label, Vinyl Communication. Augmented by drummer Andy Robillard and violinist Teri Hoefer, the group recorded their self-titled debut LP in 1997. Combining virulent dub inflected rhythms, spasms of skittish, wirey guitar and Vermillion’s signature breathless vocals, “GoGoGo Airheart” stands as a distinct blueprint of ’s progressive ideals and ’s elastic studio wizardry (due largely to experimental producer/ collaborator, Spacewurm).

Following shortly thereafter, 1998’s superb “Love My Life, Hate My Friends” LP emerged to meet the group’s increasing word of mouth popularity. “Love My Life” finds GGGAH in darker spirits, a hybrid of late-seventies post-punk (The Pop Group and Public Image Ltd. in particular) and homegrown American art-rock (Pere Ubu, Rocket From The Tombs) are channeled through Vyas’ mutated funk bass lines, Hoefer’s twisted yet sublime saw-like violin and Vermillion’s intensely oblique and personal lyrics. 1999 caught GGGAH at a crucial point; both with Touch & Go subsidiary Overcoat releasing the highly regarded The Things We Need EP to significant critical acclaim and boasting the introduction of guitarist Ben White and temporary drummer Jimmy LaValle (Tristeza/The Album Leaf) in wake of the departure of Hoefer and Robillard.

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  • EmoAddict15

    I knew on S/T LP is so sick.

    5 Feb 2012 Reply
  • stangerine

    Found "Heart on a Chain" buried deep in my hard drive. Now I'm frantically looking for Rats! Sing! Sing! anywhere on the web. If anyone can share it, that would be fucking awesome.

    27 Sep 2010 Reply
  • whitenoiz

    sexy

    17 Apr 2010 Reply
  • strangerthan_

    Love 'em

    13 Jan 2010 Reply
  • jarossamdb7

    I like these guys quite a bit. Gotta say my fave CD is Rats! and Im sure that is contrary to many people on here...

    4 Jun 2009 Reply
  • C18H21NO3

    The review is indeed ridiculous.

    31 Mar 2009 Reply
  • renurenu

    i’ve just found this article: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/gogogoairheart-rats/ by pure chance, browsing for GoGoGo Airheart related stuff. I’m posting it here as an example of the incredible stupidity of nowadays music criticism and its immense lack of taste, its lame-ass-ness and primitivism. Articles like this one should be remembered in order to remind us in what a fucked up cultural surrounding we live in, and how people who are even familiar with the current music scene are not only unable to grasp the genius character of certain art forms, but they do not even understand what concepts like “retro” are at all about and what at all means to be innovative. discussions about taste are hopeless, i know, and thus the only thing I can do is say that a person who labels GGGAH as a “retro-post-punk band” simply doesn’t speak my language and frankly, doesn’t speak any language at all. now i can go and throw up.

    30 Mar 2009 Reply
  • renurenu

    the fact they had to disband reflects the shame of this totally fucked up lame-ass indie-hipster culture.

    30 Mar 2009 Reply
  • niekenjorien

    http://www.last.fm/group/De+Albumclub/forum/107178/_/511909

    9 Mar 2009 Reply
  • kayaksalad

    xcelnt

    14 Sep 2008 Reply
  • Zapoppin

    My favourite band currently. Their debut reminds me of tuning some kind of weird radio and picking up snippets of pure greatness then retuning and so on...it always surprises me. I don't think I've been so pleased by such musical diversity since I heard the Butthole Surfers.

    22 Aug 2008 Reply
  • HighTides

    Not that good of a name, but still better than Les Savy Fav. I can't even listen to that band I hate their name so much.

    5 Aug 2008 Reply
  • Albert_Transom

    Horrible name, though.

    27 Jun 2008 Reply
  • idioma

    @ shit_ears. I lost my copy. But it's their best album.

    12 Apr 2008 Reply
  • shit_ears

    Why doesn't anyone listen to Out Of Every Window The Snap Of Envy And Greed?

    13 Dec 2007 Reply
  • wooden_indian

    Any fans of GGGAH should check out Mike's new band The Deadly Fins. Good stuff.

    11 Dec 2007 Reply
  • forgetmenot

    GGGAH - nice abbreviation :D

    23 Apr 2007 Reply
  • johnny-mnemonic

    so so so so so so much underrated ... this band is simply ingenius. Highly intelligent, energetic and hardly categorizable music.

    14 Apr 2007 Reply
  • truefiction123

    heck yeah

    5 Jul 2006 Reply
  • DisorientedBird

    GoGoGo Airheart is tons awesome.

    21 Jun 2006 Reply
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