Alice Donut

Formed in 1986 in New York City, Alice Donut was quickly signed by Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label where it released seven albums and numerous singles. Furious touring across the States, Europe and Japan cemented the band with a large cult-like underground following.

A band for the sweaty freaks, hyper-literate fringe dwellers, paranoid misanthropes and worshipers of the 100-watt mosh, Alice Donut is impossible to categorize within a genre. Mixing garage, folk, punk, metal, Kurt Weill, noise, glam and danzon with shamelessly inappropriate harmonies, the music is a disorienting hybrid of chaos and hooks. Ugly to bombastic to melodramatic to banjo-picking to spastic to Sabbath on a trombone. The lyrics veer between heartfelt little stories about twisted losers to self indulgent delusions of grandeur. Alice Donut has made a career of making the wrong music at the wrong time for the wrong people and somehow making it, oddly, right.

In 1996, Alice Donut played their 1000th show to a packed house in London, then went, exhausted, back to NYC and called it quits. In 2003, the band has re-emerged re-energized and will soon release a new album, Three Sisters, on Howler Records.