This week's GossipWolf 🐺🎶: Two former Electric Eels show up to celebrate an obsessively curated new compilation on Sun 7/30 Plus: Gossip Wolf spotted a diverse collection of Chicago musicians soaking up sounds at Pitchfork. | ✍️ JR1Nelson & imleor
Michele Zalopany
Cleveland protopunk band the Electric Eels existed for just three years in the early 70s, playing all of five gigs, and didn’t release a record till long after they’d broken up. But the legend of this notoriously self-destructive band keeps growing—maybe because founding guitarist Brian McMahon published a masterfully cantankerous memoir,
, via HoZac Books in 2017. The Electric Eels’ recordings—mostly four-track rehearsal tapes—have been compiled in many combinations over the decades, but last week Ohio label Scat Records released a double LP compilation,, that it calls the “most definitive collection ever assembled,” packed with the best versions of 27 scabby, blistering tracks.
that runs from 8 PM till midnight. McMahon will also spin records, as will HoZac cofounder Todd Novak, Gentleman John Battles, Mark Henning, and Henry Polk., you’re guaranteed entry to the free release party. The Pitchfork Music Festival seemed to bring together every scene in the city. At Sen Morimoto’s set on Friday, Gossip Wolf spotted pop auteurs Nnamdï,
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