Destroy All Monsters
An anti-rock band founded in direct reaction to the pretensions and complacency of 1970s pop music, the Detroit-based noise deconstructionists Destroy All Monsters earned their greatest notoriety at the peak of the punk era, thanks to a line-up which included alumni of the MC5 and the Stooges. Named after a cult-favorite Japanese monster movie, Destroy All Monsters was formed in 1973 by art students Niagara, Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley and Cary Loren; influenced by everything from underground comix to film noir to psychedelia, the highly visual group was experimental and abrasive, with Niagara's Betty Boop-vocals and squealing violin cresting atop waves of trance-like sonic dementia
An anti-rock band founded in direct reaction to the pretensions and complacency of 1970s pop music, the Detroit-based noise deconstructionists Destroy All Monsters earned their greatest notoriety at the peak of the punk era, thanks to a line-up which included alumni of the MC5 and the Stooges. Named after a cult-favorite Japanese monster movie, Destroy All Monsters was formed in 1973 by art students Niagara, Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley and Cary Loren; influenced by everything from underground comix to film noir to psychedelia, the highly visual group was experimental and abrasive, with Niagara's Betty Boop-vocals and squealing violin cresting atop waves of trance-like sonic dementia
Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1974–1977
**2020 stock** The influential Detroit “anti-rock” group Destroy All Monsters (Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, Jim Shaw) made raucous music, irreverent art and legendary zines, performing and disseminating their activities through an elaborate self-mythology. The Destroy All Monsters zines have been reprinted in facsimile editions, but the art objects made by the members have never been examined as independent works. Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1974–1977 is the first retrospe…
What Do I Get/Nobody Knows
Color vinyl; Editions of 500. Destroy All Monsters began life as an experimental rock group in early '70s Ann Arbor, the brainchild of University Of Michigan art school weirdos Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and Niagara (Lynn Rovner), and filmmaker Cary Loren. Following many incarnations, lineup changes, and the breakup of Niagara and Loren's romantic relationship, the group solidified in the late '70s around Niagara on vocals, and Detroit legends Michael Davis of The MC5 on bass, and The Stooges' Ron …
Nov. 22/Meet The Creeper
Color vinyl; Editions of 500. Destroy All Monsters began life as an experimental rock group in early '70s Ann Arbor, the brainchild of University Of Michigan art school weirdos Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and Niagara (Lynn Rovner), and filmmaker Cary Loren. Following many incarnations, lineup changes, and the breakup of Niagara and Loren's romantic relationship, the group solidified in the late '70s around Niagara on vocals, and Detroit legends Michael Davis of The MC5 on bass, and The Stooges' Ron …
Bored/You're Gonna Die
Color vinyl; Editions of 500. Destroy All Monsters began life as an experimental rock group in early '70s Ann Arbor, the brainchild of University Of Michigan art school weirdos Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and Niagara (Lynn Rovner), and filmmaker Cary Loren. Following many incarnations, lineup changes, and the breakup of Niagara and Loren's romantic relationship, the group solidified in the late '70s around Niagara on vocals, and Detroit legends Michael Davis of The MC5 on bass, and The Stooges' Ron A…
Hot Box 1974-1994
Destroy All Monsters are known by some for their role as a bastion of resistance of Detroit's rock; for being, during their second period, the band in which Ron Asheton would reappear. For others, they are a pivotal reference point in the copious but relatively unknown avant-garde underground from the same city, after Thurston Moore and Byron Coley dug up their first recordings in 1996 and the original line-up reunited. Destroy All Monsters comprises two complementary and interconnected poles th…
Hungry for Death: Destroy All Monsters
restocked - Hungry for Death: Destroy All Monsters" is a catalog published by Boston University on the occasion of the Hungry for Death /Destroy All Monsters exhibition held at the Boston University Art Gallery November 15-December 22nd, 2011. The emphasis of the catalog is on the music of DAM. An introductory essay by Byron Coley describes his experience with the band and his role in bringing out the release of the boxed set “Destroy All Monsters 1974-1976”. Brandon W. Joseph’s essay “Th…
Destroy All Monsters: Magazine 1976-1979
Facsimile edition of Destroy All Monsters Magazine including remnants of the "lost" seventh issue, which was never released. Destroy All Monsters Magazine features work by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Destroy All Monsters Magazine was edited by Cary Loren and contained artwork, photographs, and flyers from band mates Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Printed using any papers and techniques available to the band, the issues combine the cut and paste tactics …
Grow Live Monsters
Legendary 1970s Midwest avant-garde explosion of music & film finally on DVD.Grow Live Monsters is a selection from short home-made no-budget 8mm, super 8 and 16mm film fantasies made between 1971-1976. Most of the films revolved around a group of friends and the wall of noise they would create in basement cellars and in live performance. This was Destroy All Monsters, one of the most avant-garde "bands" of all time. Featuring artists Niagra, Jim Shaw, Corey Loren and Mike Kelley, Destroy All Mo…
Bored
American group Destroy All Monsters caused quite a stir when they first appeared in the UK. Featuring guitarist Mike Davis who had previously played in The MC5, Ron Asheton, bass player from The Stooges and drummer Rob King, the band were completed by vocalist and ex-model Niagara. Despite all of this, the band recorded only three singles for Cherry Red, all of which are contained on this mid-price CD.
Broken Mirrors: rehearsals and shows 1977/1978
Broken Mirrors/Rehearsal & Shows 1977-'78" These are the earliest recordings of DAM's first lineup, w/Niagra, Ron Asheton (STOOGES), Michael Davis , Larry Miller, Ben Miller & Rob King. They were made on a Teac 1/4" reel to reel 2 track & contain covers; Stooges "Little Doll" & Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots" & some originals the band was working on from the Fall of '77 to Fall '78
1974-1976
Long out-of-print, this reissue of the 1996 cult-classic Ecstatic Peace/Father Yod release collects all three CDs in a simple eco-friendly digi-hub package. Look for the lavish artwork, photos and extensive liner notes to be posted on the web soon. 210 minutes, 76 tracks, 3-CDs - a thick slice of underground history, re-issued on the occasion of the 35 year retrospectacle "Hungry for Death" at Printed Matter, NYC, May 30th- Aug 29th, 2009.
Trading card sets
Synopsis: Each limited edition pack consists of a complete set of 40 double-sided Destroy All Monsters 3x4 trading cards, two buttons, two stickers, one toy, and a double postcard trading card checklist, all designed for the 2009 Printed Matter exhibition Hungry for Death. Category : Posters-Cards Pages: [40] p. Dimensions (height x width x depth) : 10 x 7.5 cm. Binding: loose leaves Color: color Edition 250 Signed: Unsigned and Numbered.
Double sextet (1975)
Recorded in ann arbor in 1975, this long lost destroy all monsters gem features the group as a sextet (mike kelley, jim shaw, cary loren, jeff fields, kalle nemvalts, and john reed). missing are the lovely lyrics and goth scrawl of niagara but in her place we see the collective brainstorm through 30 minutes of an underground music/non-music and b-culture genealogy that is unmistakably destroy all monsters. a melted mind, reconstructed with duct-tape, bent circuits, saxophone drips, and fuzz that…