the Sun Club
USA
Formed: 1980
Genres: Pop/Rock
Styles: Alternative/Indie Rock, Psychobilly, Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock, Rockabilly Revival, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, American Underground, Roots Rock, New Wave, Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots, Indie Rock, Hard Rock
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Tribal psychobilly blues is the best way to describe the Gun Club's energetic death rock, but the band's career seemed doomed from the get-go due to leader Jeffrey Lee Pierce's reputation as an unreliable wildman, and well-publicized bouts of drunkenness dogged him throughout his career. Formed in Los Angeles in the early '80s, the band was vaguely aligned with similarly roots-inspired groups like X and the Blasters, but later picked up and relocated to the Lower East Side, resting more comfortably around the New York downtown set and Pierce's ...
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- the Barracudas (1)
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- The Cramps (27)
- X (23)
- Blasters (11)
- Mekons (7)
- Charlie Pickett (1)
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Influenced by
- Johnny Cash (136)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival (59)
- Howlin' Wolf (45)
- Blondie (39)
- Bo Diddley (24)
- Robert Johnson (16)
- Charley Patton (5)
- Saints (2)
- Charlie Feathers (1)
- Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers (0)
Followers
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- Tito & Tarantula (5)
- Obits (4)
- the Duke Spirit (3)
- The Von Bondies (3)
- Sons And Daughters (2)
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