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

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.

Certain pundits are of the belief the slide guitar is a restrictive medium, limited as a mechanism of stereotype. Boy, are they mistaken.

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