Pussy Galore – Press

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Jon Spencer - Uncut: Steve Albini - Rest In Power (PRESS, UK)Uncut: Steve Albini - Rest In Power (PRESS, UK)
IMAGES: Jon Spencer discusses working with Steve Albini
2024.05.24
The Guardian: ‘He’d offset the intensity by setting his feet on fire’: PJ Harvey, Mogwai and more on Steve Albini (PRESS, UK)
TEXT: Quotes from Bob Bert, Jon Spencer and Julie Cafritz
2024.05.13
Scene In Between USA: The sounds and styles of American indie, 1983-1989 (PRESS, UK)2022.11.24
The Post-Punk Years (1987 - 1990) (PRESS, UK)
SCAN: Features two photos of Pussy Galore
2022.10.27
We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001 [Expanded Edition] (BOOK/DOWNLOAD, US)2022.02.15
Uncut: Album by Album (PRESS, UK)2018.10.19
Bob Bert – I’m Just The Drummer (BOOK, US) 2018.00.00
NME: Your Record Store Day Shopping List (PRESS, UK) 2014.04.19
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion / Heavy Trash / Boss Hog / Pussy Galore - Ruta 66: El Regreso de JSBX (PRESS, SPAIN)
SCAN: Spanish-language interview (8 Pages).
2012.03.00
Crawdaddy.com: "Jon Spencer: Before and Beyond The Blues Explosion" [INTERVIEW] (PRESS, US)
TEXT: "While his brawny onstage persona certainly precedes him, Jon Spencer is, perhaps not surprisingly, a humble, organic dude with all the right artistic intentions."
2011.04.09
You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen (PRESS, US) 2010.12.21
Uncut: Ch-Ch-Changes (PRESS, UK)
SCAN: Two-page article with a series of photographs with commentary from Jon Spencer
2010.11.28
(Jan 2011)
Q: 1001 Songs To Download Now - My Playlist By Beck (PRESS, UK)
SCAN: Ten songs chosen by Beck, includes Pig Sweat by Pussy Galore.
2010.06.12
We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001 (BOOK/DOWNLOAD, US)
COVER + INFO / TRACK LISTING
2010.06.01
MagnetMagazine.com: Q&A with The Blues Explosions Jon Spencer (PRESS, US)
Q&A with Jon Spencer covering most of his history
2010.05.17
Michael Lavine / Thurston Moore - Grunge (BOOK, UK)
IMAGES
2009.09.02
The Peel Sessions (BOOK, UK)
COVER ONLY
2007.11.04
Goodbye 20th Century: Sonic Youth... (BOOK, UK/US)
COVER ONLY
2007.09.00
2008.05.00
Rough Trade. (BOOK, UK)
COVER ONLY
2006.08.30
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (BOOK, US)
COVER ONLY
2006.00.00
CBGB OFMUG: Thirty Years From The Home of Underground Rock (BOOK, US)
2005.07.01
N.Y.C. Rock (BOOK, UK)
"Originally hailing from Washington, DC, and relocating to New York in the 1980s, Pussy Galore was a no-wave-influenced outfit that for five years terrified club audiences with a noise-rock assault that took no prisoners."
2003.01.31
Record Collector: Pussy Galore (PRESS, UK)
EXTENSIVE ARTICLE (TEXT) "In the post-Nirvana era, it's hard to imagine the revolutionary nature of bands like Pussy Galore, but at the time American audiences (and later English ones, too) were wooed by Spencer's new take on blues and rock, and more importantly were blown away by the pure eneergy and ferociousness of the band when they performed live."
2000.04.00
Buzz: Right Now! [Review] / Reissues advert (PRESS, JAPAN)
SCAN: Issue includes Pussy Galore adverts and review along with a feature on The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
1998.11.00

Ruta 66: Live: In The Red [Review] (PRESS, SPAIN)
1998.04.00
Mute Press Release: Biog From August 1987 (PRESS, UK)
TWO PAGE PRESS RELEASE (TEXT): "Pussy Galore formed in Washington DC in September '85. Jon Spencer (vocals and guitar), is the primary songwriter and claims as his musical influences, 60's garage bands and industrial music. Julia Cafritz (guitar and vocals) is originally from DC and met Jon at university which they both ultimately left to pursue fame and fortune."
1998.03.00
Mute Press Release: Dial 'M' For Motherfucker (PRESS, UK)
ONE PAGE PRESS RELEASE (TEXT): "Why Dial 'M' for Motherfucker? What's up with this new "high-tech, can-do", accessible Pussy Galore? Accessible my ass! This is one of the hardest records ever made! People have listened to it and gone blind! This is the record that broke up the band!"
1998.03.00
Mute Press Release: Re-Issues (PRESS, UK)
ONE PAGE PRESS RELEASE (TEXT): "The fact that the band consisted of future members of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Boss Hog, Royal Trux and Free Kitten amongst others, shouldn't matter to you unless you are obsessing over that stuff. We don't encourage such behaviour, thank you very much."
1998.03.00
Spin: Dirty White Boys and Girls (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1998.00.00
NME: Gone - The Essential Guide To Yesterday's Heroes (PRESS, UK)
PHOTO
1998.04.00
Details: Funky Big White Noise [2100 WORDS] (PRESS, US)
"Growing up in the '70s in Hanover, New Hampshire, Jon Spencer was a polite kid too scared to watch horror movies. ten years after that, he was a Brown dropout living in Washington, D.C., with his band, Pussy Galore watching trash movies and horror films all night long."
1996.12.00
Noise From The Underground: A Secret History of Alternative Rock (PRESS, US)
SCANS: Images of Boss Hog, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Pussy Galore by Michael Lavine
1996.11.20
BB Gun: Pussy Galore '86 [Article] (PRESS, US)
TEXT: Very short article with some rare photos.
1995.00.00
RUTA 66: Pussy Galore - Cronincas De Suiedad / Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Baad Vibrations!!!! (PRESS, SPAIN)
SCAN
1994.12.00
Gene Simmons / Paul Stanley - Alternative Press: Mystery Date (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1994.07.00
Melody Maker: Fur Trading (PRESS, UK)
SCAN: Partial discography of bands linked to Pussy Galore
1994.03.05
Record Collector: Pussy Galore (PRESS, UK)
SCAN
1993.00.00
Fiz [#5]: All Roads Lead To Spencer: A Historic Look At The... [3400 Words] (PRESS, US)
TEXT: "Fiz: Is it true that one of the reasons you guys decided to leave Washington DC was because of the Ian MacKaye song? Jon: No, we left DC for other reasons. I mean we were having trouble with the band in DC. "
1993.03.00
Sonic Death #3: Postcard From Bob Bert
1993.00.00
Corpse Love Hate Mail (PRESS, US)
PHOTO
1992.00.00
Wire: Corpse Love [Review] (PRESS, UK)
SCAN
1992.10.00
Ruta 66: Corpse Love [Review] (PRESS, SPAIN)
1992.05.00
Melody Maker: Corpse Love [Review] (PRESS, UK)1992.04.04
Corpse Love (PRESS RELEASE, US) 1992.02.14
Pussy Galore / Bewitched / Bob Bert - Flipside: Bewitched (PRESS, US)
SCAN: Bob Bert discusses Pussy Galore and recording Historia De La Musica Rock
1991.02/01
Zip Code: What's Up Pussy Cats? [Interview] (PRESS, UK) 1990.00.00
Ruta 66: Historia De La Musica Rock [Review](PRESS, SPAIN)
SCAN
1990.07/08
Melody Maker: Kittens of Distinction [Interview] (PRESS, UK)
SCAN: Last ever interview
1990.06.02
Melody Maker: News (PRESS, UK)
SCAN
1990.05.12
NME: Historia De La Musica Rock [Review] (PRESS, UK)
"'Historia' is the sound of the band storming the front line to pitch their biggest lump of rock yet...Making history as usual."
1990.05.12
Ink Disease: Historia De La Musica Rock [Review] (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1990.00.00
Melody Maker - Revolution Summer: Historia De La Musica Rock [Review] (PRESS, UK)
SCAN: ""(Do) The Snake", it's the second most appalling song ever commited to vinyl"
1990.05.12
Historia De La Musica Rock (PRESS RELEASE, UK)Historia De La Musica Rock (PRESS RELEASE, UK)
SCAN
1990.05.08
Historia De La Musica Rock (PRESS RELEASE, US)Historia De La Musica Rock (PRESS RELEASE, US)
SCAN
1990.00.00
Boston Phoenix: Historia De La Musica Rock (PRESS, US)Boston Phoenix: Historia De La Musica Rock (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1990.00.00
Interview: Dirt (Magazine, US)Interview: Dirt (PRESS, US)
COVER ONLY
1990.05.00
ISounds: Pussy Galore Return (PRESS, UK) Sounds: Pussy Galore Return (PRESS, UK)
Image: News item about the release of Historia De La Musica Rock
1990.04.00
 Melody Maker: Sex Kittens [Interview] (PRESS, UK) Melody Maker: Sex Kittens [Interview] (PRESS, UK)1989.06.17
Pussy Galore - Flipside: Bob Bert, Spills It All (PRESS, US) Flipside: Bob Bert, Spills It All (PRESS, US)1989.00.00
You Can't Hide Your Love Forever: Sugarshit Sharp / Chart (PRESS, US)1989.00.00
Bob: Whole Lotta Love / Stoned To Death [Review] (PRESS, US)1989.10/11
Abus Dangereux (PRESS, FRANCE)
Photo (low resolution)
1989.10/11
Ruta 66: Manhattan Holocaust / Dial 'M' For Motherfucker [Review] (PRESS, SPAIN)1989.07/08
Sugarshit Sharp / Dial 'M' For Motherfucker [Review] (PRESS, US)1989.00.00
Nice Slacks: The Last Piece of Pussy (PRESS, US)
Images: lo-res / not readable
1989.00.00
Straight: College-Drop-Outs und ihr Verhältnis zur E-Gitarre (PRESS, GERMANY)
SCAN: German-language article
1989.07.00
NME: Paw Boys [1600 Word Article] (PRESS, UK)
ARTICLE/INTERVIEW (TEXT): "They're New York City's most mean and ,lowdown dirty grunge rockers and everything they do has to be bigger, bolder and more gut-wrenching than all that's gone before. Forget about lineat progression - leave that to lesser gods like Live Skull, Lunachicks et al - these cartoon nihilits give new meaning to the term haphazard, positively drippig with sexual frenzy and asshole imagery."
1989.06.17
NME: Shag Frenzy [Dial 'M'... Review] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "What's most impressive however is 'Dial M's' lack of any genuine feeling. One can draw comparisons with Kraftwek in its allegiance to mechanised emotion: synthesised ghosts without the aid of keyboards. Everyone's always talking about passion and commitment in rock (and this is resolutely rock, even if unhinged) but PG just erase all that guff..."
1989.05.13
Record Mirror: Dial M ['Dial 'M'... Review] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Dischordant chords, fuzzy guitars, industrial beats on bits of metal, groans, miscellaneous loud noises and growly, gruff vocals; the singer scounding like a man with his guitar stuck in his mouth and, understandably, rather annoyed about it."
1989.05.13
Party Line [Dial 'M'... Review] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "CACOPHONOUS. Look, I realise this will come as no suprise or problem to anyone who has stumbled across Pussy Galore's subsonic primal thurst, but that's what it is. Cacophonus. From the anguished bored-rich-kids yowling in the playground..."
1989.05.00
Spin: The Pussy Identity (PRESS, US)
SCAN: Three-page feature
1989.04.00
Dial 'M' For Motherfucker  [PRESS RELEASE] (PRESS, US)Dial 'M' For Motherfucker [Press Release] (PRESS, US)
TEXT
1989.04.00
Dial 'M' For Motherfucker  [PRESS RELEASE] (PRESS, UK)Dial 'M' For Motherfucker [Press Release] (PRESS, UK)
SCAN
1989.04.00
Pussy Galore - Rockerilla: Rumore in Azione (PRESS, ITALY)Rockerilla: Rumore in Azione (PRESS, ITALY)
PHOTO: Incomplete
1989.03.00
Melody Maker: This Friday Night Only [Review] (PRESS, UK)Melody Maker: This Friday Night Only [Review] (PRESS, UK)1989.02.04
Ruta 66: Interview (PRESS, SPAIN)
SCAN
1989.02.00
Ruta 66: Sugarshit Sharp (PRESS, SPAIN)Ruta 66: Sugarshit Sharp (PRESS, SPAIN)
SCAN
1989.01.00
Sniffin' Rock: Interview (PRESS, UK) Sniffin' Rock: Interview (PRESS, UK)1989.00.00
Howl: Damaged I / II [Review] (PRESS, US)Howl: Damaged I / II [Review] (PRESS, US)1989.00.00
Pussy Galore - Jersey Beat: It's The End of Noise As We Know It (PRESS, US)Jersey Beat: It's The End of Noise As We Know It (PRESS, US)
SCAN: Sugarshit Sharp review
1989.00.00
Pussy Galore / Das Damen - Melody Maker: Greyhound, London (REVIEW, UK)
SCAN
1988.12.31
NME: Paw Little Rich Kids (PRESS, UK)NME: Paw Little Rich Kids (PRESS, UK)
SCAN
1988.12.17
Village Voice: Magic Johnsons (PRESS, US)Village Voice: Magic Johnsons (PRESS, US)
PHOTOCOPY / SCAN
1988.12.06
NME: Mean Fiddler review (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT): "FORGET THE convor-belt mentality and face up to the facts: using the latest fancy gadgets and acoutrements doesn't automatically make you contemporary or a late '80s innovator. It's a question of attitudes and your relationship with the past."
1988.12.03
Sounds: Mean Fiddler review (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT): "Chief garage mechanic, Jon Spencer, is still wearing the flesh-coloured lame shirt featured on the album cover that should long-since have been banished to the laundrette. He and sulky Juicy Cafritz scream and swear like animated graffiti and, with only Bob Bert's petrol tank rattling to offset the guitars..."
1988.12.03
NME: Chart (PRESS, UK)
[Photocopy of Chart]
1988.12.03
Melody Maker: Chart (PRESS, UK)
[Photocopy of Chart]
1988.12.03
NME: Sugarshit Sharp (PRESS, UK)
1988.12.03
Fool's Mate: Interview (PRESS, JAPAN)1988.12.00
Observer: John Peel Purrs Over The Scratch and Bit of Pussy Galore (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Pussy Galore played a vicious street brawl of a set, leaving the impression that the band pursue a musical scorched-earth policy in the hope that the traditions on which they base their impressive music can never be used again."
1988.11.27
Sounds: Six Ways To Skin A Cat [FEATURE/INTERVIEW] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Pussy Galore recently returned from a triumphant outing to Japan, a minor miracle of an achievement for the avowed noise terrorists. Getting your boney rock ass into Japan is a tricky business and Pussy Galore are the first of the current US loft noise brigade to sling their guitars around in the land of the rising yen."
1988.11.26
Kills Above All Else: Interview (PRESS, UK)
PHOTOS: Incomplete. Better images required.
1988.11.22
Non-Stop Banter: Here Kitty Kitty [Interview] (PRESS, US)
PHOTOS: Incomplete. Better images required.
1988.11.00 -
1989.01.00
Melody Maker: Splayed Alive [Live review of Mean Fiddler show] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Jon's guttural vocals, mixed six times under the PA system, have a perfect counterfoil in the other two guitarists and Julia's traumatic presence. And, just when you think its all too much, in comes Julia with a thrusting microphone welter, Jon throws his guitar off, and we start all over again."
1988.11.00
Sounds: One lump or two? [Sugarshit Sharp Review] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Drums stampede in all directions; guitars fuzz Cramps-style and are castrated mercilessly and the vocals sound like they've been dragged backwards through a loudhailer. And yet, Pussy Galore are steeped in rock 'n' roll tradition; they have just chosen to disfigure their heritage. "
1988.11.19
Melody Maker: Insanity Claws [1700 WORD ARTICLE] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Pussy Galore are undeniably and unenviably individual at present, not art enough to be considered alongside Sonic Youth, no dumb enough to be deemed metal and too trad to be elevated alongside The Young Gods, they remind me of The Birthday Party when they first started out - there's the same monochrome dimension, but they lack the melodrama..."
1988.11.12
Sugarshit Sharp Review (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "DIG THIS garage trash groove. Pussy Galore have been rummaging around the dustbins of all their idols: New York Dolls. Scientists, 'Sister Ray', and more musty unreleased basement tapes than I'd like to contemplate. The result is 'Sugarshit Sharp', an abominable conglomeration of gutter level references and second-hand scumball styling. This, I want you to know, is a Good Thing"
1988.11.00
Pulsebeat: Right Now! (REVIEW, US)Pulsebeat: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): The band, that industrialists and pig fuckers can agree on, and trash vampires and feedback fiends and lowlife scum and Metal studs and puncks and druncks and Spoonie Gee fans.
1988.11.00
Spex: Right Now! [Review] (PRESS, GERMANY)Spex: Right Now! [Review] (PRESS, GERMANY)
REVIEW (SCAN): German-Language review
1988.11.00
Buttrag: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Although Pussy Galore aren't a novelty anymore (i.e. they've been famous for more than a year), they still need to be heralded for being the only real rock-n-roll band kicking today."
1988.11.00
Forced Exposure: Right Now! (REVIEW, US)Forced Exposure: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "After the stench and blood had been rinsed w/Southern Comfort, Pussy Galore found themselves born and immediately started crawling toward NYC. Let Freedom ring."
1988.11.00
Sugarshit Sharp: Melody Maker (REVIEW, UK)Melody Maker: Sugarshit Sharp (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (SCAN). "Pussy Galore are a critics' band. In a very specific sense: I've always thought of them as a kind of Lester Bangs..."
1988.11.05
Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp (PRESS RELEASE, US)Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp (PRESS RELEASE, US)
SCAN
1988.10.31
Melody Maker: News (ARTICLE, UK) Melody Maker: News (PRESS, UK)
VERY SHORT NEWS ITEM ABOUT TOUR DATES (SCAN):
Pussy Galore are in Britain for a series of dates to follow the release of a new mini-album "Sugarshit Sharp"
1988.10.29
Daily News (ARTICLE, US) Daily News (ARTICLE, US)
VERY SHORT NEWS ITEM ABOUT ARTWORK (SCAN): "With its blaring, non-rhythmic barrage of noise, the lower East Site band Pussy Galore has offended plenty of folks. But now it has had to hold up the release of the six-song EP "Sugarshit Sharp"..."
1988.10.17
 Pussy Galore - New York Times (ARTICLE, US) New York Times (PRESS, US)
ARTICLE ON A FESTIVAL FEATURING A MENTION OF PUSSY GALORE (LARGE SCAN)
"The Galore group, which will be performing tomorrow at Big Kahuna, has been playing together for three years and is one of the New York Scene's main attractions. It's latest album, "Right Now""
1988.09.00
New York Times: Alternative Is the Word At Festival (PRESS, US)New York Times: Alternative Is the Word At Festival (PRESS, US)
TEXT: Preview for Pussy Galore set at Big Kahuna (New Music Seminar) - New York City, NY, US (16 July 1988)
1988.07.15
Flashy 60's Extremism (REVIEW, US)New York Times: Flashy 60's Extremism (PRESS, US)
SCAN: Review of Pussy Galore live at Drums, New York City, NY, US on 31 March 1988.
1988.04.04
Melody Maker: Manchester Boardwalk [REVIEW] (PRESS, UK)
SCAN: "New Yorkers Pussy Galore are yet another one of those groups who induce much knicker-wrtting and can do no wrong."
1988.03.05

Spex: Ein Zustand des Dazwischen (PRESS, GERMANY)
Two-page German language feature.
1988.03.00
Stadt Münster: We Want More - Pussy Galore! (PRESS, GERMANY)1988.02.06
Ruta 66: Teen Pussy Power (PRESS, SPAIN)
SCAN
1988.02.00
Die Gestiefelte Muschi (PRESS, GERMANY)
SCAN
1988.01.00
Rolling Under: Pussy Galore (PRESS, GREECE)
SCAN
1988.00.00
Next Big Thing: Loadsa Pussy (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1988.00.00
Augenblick - Issue 5: Interview (PRESS, JAPAN)
IMAGES ONLY: Features Pussy Galore interview by Supernatural Organization.
1988.00.00
Artforum: Speaker to Speaker (ARTICLE, US)
ARTICLE (SCAN): "What do you do?! a 60ish businessman asked me 'I'm a rock critic," I said "My son's in a punk band." he said, throwing his arms wide: "'Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck'" And that's what Pussy Galore say. By now such spew ought to be a..."
1988.00.00
London Student: Mean Fiddler (PRESS, UK)
LIVE REVIEW (TEXT):"Even harsher and more grating live than on vinyl, a host of two-minute guitar blasts fly out from the stage like sheet metal, as dangerous and essential as any of their influences."
1988.01.23
NEW (ARTICLE, UK) NME: Total Hot Babe-Dom [2000 Words] (PRESS, UK)
ARTICLE: "Last night we were onstage, and it was like people were screaming and stuff, thrashing around - I don't know, it's like my initial reaction is that a gut-level indifference kicks in. Just like we're trying to act blase or something."
1988.01.30
Cashbox: Talent on Stage (PRESS, US)
LIVE REVIEW (SCAN): "Both the Gibson Bros. and Pussy Galore play brutish, plug-ugly, and pathetically ploddy grunge-noise as offensive celebration, or celebration of the offensive."
1988.01.30
City Paper: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "NYC's Pussy Galore does just that, with fanged frontman Jon Spencer chainsawing 19 no-tech, brain damaging stompes which plumb Cro-Magnonman's primal urges"
1988.01.29
Sounds: Mean Fiddler [11 January 1988] (PRESS, UK) Sounds: Mean Fiddler [11 January 1988] (PRESS, UK)
SCAN / TEXT
1988.01.23
Sounds (ARTICLE, UK)Sounds: East Side Exiles (PRESS, UK)
ARTICLE ON PUSSY GALORE (LARGE SCAN): "On my way to interview Pussy Galore I'm listening to their inimitable version of 'Exile On Main Street' (yup, the whole of it) on my Walkman. As it all begins to get a bit too hairy I remove the headphones. It's then I notice a little trickle of pus dribbling out of my right ear..."
1988.01.23
NME: Mean Fiddler (REVIEW, UK) NME: Mean Fiddler (PRESS, UK)
LIVE REVIEW (LARGE SCAN):"Groovy News: Last summer I called up this American guy, deaf in his left ear, and asked "What's goin' on?" He said "Pussy Galore".
1988.01.23
NME: News/Gossip Mention (PRESS, UK)
VERY SHORT MENTION ON THE NME NEWS/GOSSIP PAGE (TEXT): "Pussy Galore were delighted to be canned off by an otherwise ecstatic crowd at London's Mean Fiddler venue last week, for only playing a 15 second encore.".
1988.01.23
Mean Fiddler, Harlseden: Melody Maker (REVIEW, US)Melody Maker: Mean Fiddler, Harlesden... / The Cat's Out of The Bag [Interview] (PRESS, UK) (PRESS, UK)
LIVE REVIEW (LARGE SCAN): "Pussy Galore are a mutation of R&B (their customary metal percussive device is, in fact, borrowed from The Mutoid Waste Company)."
1988.01.23
 Village View: Locked In The Garage (ARTICLE, US)Village View: Locked In The Garage (PRESS, US)
PROFILE OF PUSSY GALORE (LARGE SCAN): "Take Pussy Galore, for instance. Critic Greil Marcus raved about them last summer in no less a publication than Artform, hailing them as "an attack on self-criticism with the crudest tools."
1988.01.22
Pop Gun: Bob Bert Interview (PRESS, GERMANY)Pop Gun: Bob Bert Interview (PRESS, GERMANY)
Three-page German language interview
1988.01.00
Viel Larm Um Nichts (PRESS, GERMANY)Viel Larm Um Nichts (PRESS, GERMANY) 1988.00.00
Ink Disease: Pussy Gold 5000 / Right Now! [Reviews] (PRESS, US)Ink Disease: Pussy Gold 5000 / Right Now! [Reviews] (PRESS, US)1988.00.00
City Limits (PRESS, UK)
SHORT MENTION (TEXT): "'You Look Like A Jew' is a pretty average example of the wit and wisdom of Washington DC Thrash band Pussy Galore. In the twiglet zone between art and the arsehole, PG are the polite(r) younger cousins of GG Allin."
1987.12.29
Voice: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
RIGHT NOW! REVIEW (SCAN): "And they say young people have no ideals. I mean, all these postdadaists want is to provide the forbidden visceral thrill of rock and roll at the moment they snatch it away as an impossible fake..."
1987.12.29
NME: Groovy Hate Fuck (Feel Good About Your Body) [Review] (PRESS, UK)1987.12.05
Jersey Journal: And This Is What Thrash Rock's All About… (PRESS, US)1987.12.02
Observer: Releases [Right Now! Review] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW; VERY BRIEF MENTION (TEXT): "Fellow New Yorkers Pussy Galore deliver a comprehensive collage of the last 20 years of garage music in 20 'Uptight' fragments that take pleasure and power from railing at the mainstream. "
1987.11.08
Cash Box: East Coastings (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1987.11.07
Nerve: Feeling Groovy (PRESS, US)
Photos: Two-page feature. Low-res, unreadable
1987.11.00
Mapp: F*ck Groovy Hate (PRESS, US)
ARTICLE (SCAN): "I was trying to draw a bead on how I felt about these records from Pussy Galore and Big Black when i came upon the following quote from the late rock critic Lester Bangs..."
1987.11.00
The Rocket: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): In the early '60s, parents were confronted with the challenge: Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone? The Beatles, of course, were the good boys and the Stones were the bad bays.
1987.11.00
Conflict #46: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Some records just batter you from cut to cut to the point where you can't begin to imagine how any of the songs..."
1987.11.00
Phfudd!: Right Now! (REVIEW, US) Phfudd!: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Most people who don't know better seem to dismiss PG and all those NYC hard-gunch groups"
1987.11.00
Sunday NY Times: Rock: Sonic Youth At Cat Club (PRESS, US)
BRIEF MENTION IN LIVE REVIEW (SCAN) Pussy Galore uses three guitars, each contributing a different range of textures and a distinctive rhythm attack, along with Bob Bert's unusual drumming, which combines trashcan sounds with swing and precision.
1987.10.25
NME: Great Balls of Fur (PRESS, UK) 1987.10.10
Village Voice: Rip This Joint (ARTICLE, US) Village Voice: Rip This Joint (PRESS, US)
ARTICLE (SCAN): "Now Pussy Galore, you could make a case that they're one more bunch of psychedelic/'60s college kids cashing in on cheese from the past; name comes from Goldfinger..."
1987.10.08
Public News: Shredding Myths (PRESS, US)
INTERVIEW (SCAN): "Pussy Galore has become one of the more important bands to emerge from the new head-slamming school of American guitar/noise bands. Punk is dead, and bands like Sonic Youth, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, and Pussy Galore reaffirm our faith in the shear power and strength of rock music with their dissimilar but equally assaulting sounds."
1987.10.07
Catalogue: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Recording techniques certainly aren't the most valuable ways of passing on ambient information but I would have liked to witnness the session when Right Now was recorded somewhere in New York [sic]"
1987.10.00
Disaster: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): This LP is like taking your radio to a planet with only cool radio stations and setting it on auto-scan. The songs are short to match your attention span.
1987.10.00
Abacus: Right Now! (REVIEW, US) Abacus: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Everything on acid from A to Z. They give the impression of a chainsaw rubbing over the Cramps and the Stooges."
1987.10.00
Hyper-Tension: Right Now! (REVIEW, US)  Hyper-Tension: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Altho certain people still have a vocabulary that starts w/Snc Yth and ends w/Lv Skll when it comes to this band, I say they are NOT the latest purveyors of Lower E. Side noise tradition..."
1987.10.00
Dangerous Rhythms: Right Now! (REVIEW, US)  Dangerous Rhythms: Right... (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): The immediacy of the title certainly goes hand in hand with the urgency of the tunes here, and also how soon you should persue this if you haven't done so already"
1987.10.00
Melody Maker: Interview (ARTICLE, UK) Melody Maker: Thrash Thrash [Interview] (PRESS, UK)
INTERVIEW (TEXT): "Pussy Galore on the other hand are bleary. Headlong. The animal product of low ceilings."
1987.10.31
Forced Exposure: Review (PRESS, US) Forced Exposure: Review (PRESS, US)
SCAN: Cover / Pussy Galore photo
1987.00.00
NME: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT): "Pussy Galore are the perfect blueprint for tomorrow's ugly world. Their attitude stinks and I love them for it. Chances are you will too."
1987.09.26
Suburbian Voice: Right Now [Review] (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1987.00.00
Melody Maker: Right Now! Review (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT): "a thrash, but by no means a monotone. It's a compendiu, of junk scratches, with every rusty tool in the garage brought into play. They sound prostate, woozy, about to screw up or slam their instruments and stalk off and die"
1987.09.26
Underground: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
SHORT REVIEW: (TEXT): "Right Now! is a thunderous guitar battle, like thrash played by drunks and acid heads. You'll hate it, or you'll "get high", as they say, too. Wacks."
1987.09.00
Independent LPs [Chart] (PRESS, UK)
CHART (SCAN): Showing Right Now! at number 12
1987.09.00
Hot Metal: Right Now! (REVIEW, UK)Hot Metal: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
RIGHT NOW! REVIEW (TEXT): "These scabby wretches from NYC (via DC) aim straight at your large intestine..."
1987.09.00
NME: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (SCAN)"From beyond the valley of the New York Dolls slink Pussy Galore, a band so GREBO that you'll want to swallow them down in one big ball of fur... be careful of the claws that catch, one might snag in your throat and make you gag."
1987.09.26
Rockpool: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (TEXT/SCAN): This Pussy Galore isn't the femme fatale James Bond met; if it had been, Bond would still be recovering. Pussy Galore, Right Now! is an aural onslaught that leaves you exhausted by happy.
1987.09.25
Melody Maker: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Right Now!" is a thrash, but by no means a monotone. It's a compendium of junk scratches, with every rusty tool in the garage brought into play. They sound prostrate, woozy, about to screw up or slam their instruments and stalk off and die..."
1987.09.19
Sounds: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT): "So just how deep is the Big Apple’s scuzz pit and how much longer will it be before we finally hit the nauseous residue that lies at the bedrock of post-no wave, post-reality NYC? Or have we already reached it with Pussy Galore, the gnarliest..."
1987.09.19
Reflex: Pussy Galore (PRESS, UK)
RIGHT NOW! REVIEW (TEXT): "In the two years of Pussy Galore's existence, I've been hurled through a frightening deja-vu history lesson. Unlike any I've had in school, this was the origin and evolution of the twisted side of Rock 'n' Roll. I don't mean to say that Pussy Galore has shed any light on the old, typically banal arguments of who did what first."
1987.08.00
Jersey Beat: Right Now! [Review] (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN)
1987.00.00
Voice: Kitty Litter (ARTICLE, US)Voice: Kitty Litter (PRESS, US)
ARTICLE ABOUT CANCELLED SHOW (SCAN/TEXT) The band that’s tried harder than George Michael to get censored finally has, Pussy Galore is banned from Hoboken – for a show, at least – since postering around Maxwell’s last week."
1987.08.11
Hoboken Reporter: Don't Say That Word / Letters (PRESS, US)Hoboken Reporter: Don't Say That Word / Letters (PRESS, US)
Article / Letter about CANCELLED show
1987.08.09
Cops Hate Poetry: A Conversation With… (PRESS, US) Cops Hate Poetry: A Conversation With… (PRESS, US)
SCAN: Incomplete, page one only.
1987.03.06
Vanity Fair: Ivy League Rockers (PRESS, US)Vanity Fair: Ivy League Rockers (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1987.01.00
V/A feat. Pussy Galore - Greed: The Next Sigue Sigue Sputnik? (PRESS, US) Greed: The Next Sigue Sigue Sputnik? (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1987.00.00
Butt Rag: Offending No One (PRESS, US) Butt Rag: Offending No One (PRESS, US)
SCANS: Interview / Photos (Incomplete)
1987.00.00
Pussy Galore - Pussy Gold 5000: Review (PRESS, US)Pussy Gold 5000: Review (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1987.00.00
Pussy Galore - Pussy Gold 5000: Review (PRESS, US)Pussy Gold 5000: Review (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1987.00.00
The Rat, Boston, MA, US (16 October 1986)Your Flesh: Feature (PRESS, US)
PHOTOS
1987.00.00
Maximum RockNRoll: Exile on Main St. [Review] (PRESS, US)Maximum RockNRoll: Exile on Main St. [Review] (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1986.00.00
Boston Phoenix: Exile on Main St. (PRESS, US)Boston Phoenix: Exile on Main St. (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1986.00.00
WDC Period: Interview (PRESS, US)WDC Period: Interview (PRESS, US)1986.00.00
Ca Labs, Tallahassee, FL (PRESS, US)Ca Labs, Tallahassee, FL (PRESS, US)
SHOW LISTING
1986.01.10
Conflict #42: Open Wide (PRESS, US)
TEXT: "Yeah, the whole second wave of Dischord bands completely fizzled. Rites Of Spring broke up, Dag Nasty were broken up for a while. Embrace broke up, Beefeater were split up. Last year you had that whole Revolution Summer thing but they never really carried it anywhere, it just fell on it's face. A real joke. So what's with you review of the single? It's like a review of Tom Smith! I mean, the whole thing's like "here's Tom Smith's record"."
1986.08.00
Common Level: W.C. Dons, Jackson, MS, US [Review] (PRESS, US)
IMAGE / TEXT
1986.01.16
Peach of Immortality - Local Boys Make Good
SCAN: Tom Smith interview
1986.00.00
Maximum Rock N Roll: Scene Report (PRESS, US)
SCAN: Mentions Groovy Hate Fuck release and Jon and Julia moving to New York.
1986.00.00
Groovy Hate Fuck [Review] (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1986.00.00
Groovy Hate Fuck (PRESS RELEASE, US)
SCAN
1986.06.00
Feel Good About Your Body EP [Review] (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1986.00.00
Greed: Feel Good About Your Body EP [Review] (PRESS, US)
SCAN
1986.00.00
DC Scene Report (PRESS, US) 0000.00.00
Münstersche Zeitung: We Want More - "Pussy Galore"! (PRESS, GERMANY)
Hardcore-Anarchos metzelm sich durch di Hirne
0000.00.00
It's All Over Now (ARTICLE, US)It's All Over Now (PRESS, US)
ARTICLE (LARGE SCAN). " See that asssmoke rising. Hear the funny belly burning. Genius needs your burning clientele."
0000.00.00
Melody Maker: Talks About The Records That Changed Her Life (PRESS, UK) Melody Maker: Kim Gordon Talks About The Records That Changed Her Life (PRESS, UK)
SCAN. Includes Pussy Galore - Groovy Hate Fuck
0000.00.00