Throughout the late eighties/early nineties, Melbourne’s underground music scene shined with immense talent and originality, none more so than Venom P. Stinger.

Despite mainstream media’s portrayal of Iran as an apocalyptic wasteland, a burgeoning counterculture continues to rise, seeded by its 1970s underground psych rock scene.

The blind Viking from Kansas influenced Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, and Steve Reich, and his studio experiments blazed a trail for hip hop and punk.

Amid the Seattle grunge explosion, the music industry reaped profits unseen since its 1970s heyday. Yet, little is spoken of its main influence, the Adelaide underground.

Mutating from the drug-addled ashes of Grong Grong, Sydney’s King Snake Roost breached earholes with a perverse blend of acid-fried jazz, punk, and mind-altering barbarism.

1991, and after a decade of experimental oneupmanship, Sydney’s Black Eye Records is in danger of swallowing itself whole. Enter Kim Salmon and the Surrealists.

The vinyl bargain bin is more than a graveyard of kitsch whose fate was sealed the moment it appeared on a yacht rock compilation—it’s also where you’ll find reverb, motherfucker.

Under the thumb of glam, L.A. in the late 1980’s resembled a grand scale transvestite extravaganza. Enter Claw Hammer, loud, hairy balls stinking up the lipstick breeze.

Forming in 1981, Bloodloss squirted a placenta of afterbirth that led to the banning of their wild live shows in venues across Sydney. Read the sensational headlines here.

With a reputation as bowel-antagonist extraordinaire, no wave pioneers, Swans, are perhaps the closest humanity has come to executing a successful brown note.

1969 proved a tumultuous year for pop culture; Charles Manson, murder, amphetamines, all of which inform the elements that make up the incredible ‘Trout Mask Replica’ album.

In modernity, punk rock acts have taken it upon themselves to push the acceptance of global establishment mantra, an irony crueler than the very tyranny they’re promoting.

Gerald Casale’s philosophies on human devolution are proving accurate. It now seems apt to hear from the DEVO co-founder, whose origin is steeped in tragedy.