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Sugar Tampaxxx
12+ albums
Grungealternativeindie rockpunkemo
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Sugar Tampaxxx was an argentine indie rock band formed sometime between January and February of 1996 with no other purpose other than to experiment with music. After an unsteady career and line up changes the band split in may 2003 with Sol Shurman (voice, guitar) as the original member. Sugar Tampaxxx made an urgent, yet dense and intense type of lo-fi punk with grunge and noise rock undertones including very catchy guitar melodies that could bring Sleater-Kinney to mind. The band started off rehearsing with a couple of original songs as well as covers of "Ashes on the ground" (Half Japanese) and "Short dick men" (Gillette). In April they played their first show at "El Dorado". After playing the underground circuits for several months, by the end of the year, they had gained a consistent crowd as well as rock press attention, obtaining reviews in the NO supplement of the newspaper Página 12, being regarded as one of the most exciting new acts of 1996. They released their first demo named "Casados con Hijos" and after a few line up changes (notably getting tighter and tighter as a band) they took part in a Sonic Youth and Pixies tribute album called "New Wave of Kool Things" recording the song "Flower" (Sonic Youth) that quickly became part of their repertoire as well as new cover versions of "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell and "It's Over" by Daniel Johnston. After several months of rehearsing and new line up changes, the band got back on the road with new songs. It was then
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