Luxury Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon

There are a thousand bands that pass through this naked city of Hoboken, here Iies fifteen of them--they came, they played at Maxwells, and they had the talent to inspire this Coyote Sampler, Luxury Condos Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon.

Most of the artists gathered on this compilation are club scene veterans-known in different incarnations for quirky, artier, esoteric music--and have focused their sounds towards rock and roll. The WygaIs play rough hewn foIk rock and are led by two of the Individuals (a bright, melodic spot in the No New York days). Rage To Live battle guitars on pop anthems, and are fronted by Glenn Morrow, also an lndivjdual and New York Rocker. Trigger and the Thrill Kings are led by the Dutch singer Truce, who sang in TNT, Jim Sclavunos, drummer of TNT and 8 Eyed Spy, and Jim Duckworth, who guitared in the Gun Club. Scruffy The Cat are cowpoke punks from Iowa camped in Boston. Last Round Up gave up singing around the range to croon country in the Lower East Side of New York City. Rock critic Ira Kaplan and artist Georgia Hubley put down pens and brushes for guitars and drumsticks and formed Yo La Tengo ("I’ve got it,” Spanish baseball talk for catching a fly ball ). The Trypes are a hypnotic, percussive splinter group of the Feelies. Mr. Bonus, the singer/songwriter of a legendary pop group, left his decibels behind to record this quiet paen for Elvis. Gut Bank, youngsters from Hoboken detonate their drums and drive a hard, raucous rhythm. The Killkenny Cats, from Athens, were produced by Pylon's Michael Lachowski, and they love to layer heavy metal guitar onto moody melodies. Myra Holder's a singer/songwriter/guitarist originally from Winston-Salem NC, who shares with her high school mates (Mitch Easter, Chris Stamey, the dB's) a penchant for lmpressionistic pop. Syd Straw has sung with Van Dyke Parks and The Golden Paliminos, but this time is backed up by the Del-Lords, who wrote the song and produced it for her too. The Jacks, usuallly known as Matthew Sweet and Chris Stamey, recorded a dub version of Stamey's dB tune, ''Ask For Jill" with trombone blasted by producer (REM, Guadacanal Diary, etc.) Don Dixon. The Raunch Hands play grungy, nasty blues.

Invest in vinyl, not condos.

- notes by Steve Fallon (1985)