The blank city has gone dark. The cold, killer moonlight casts severe shadows on our souls, and the sound of chaos, madness and melancholy is set to tribal beats and relentless agitation. The expressive, hard to define style of this music helps us get inside this world of instability, fear, and/or alienation. Dark alleys, stifling hot apartments, smoky clubs, roadside dives, and rainy highways prevail. The characters of these stories are often obsessed, desperate, paranoid or trapped. The ensuing struggle between good and evil, and the psychological or spiritual torment is what grips us and drives the story.

 

 

 

HISTORY

 

TWIN GUNS was born from the ashes of Andrea Sicco previous band, My Happy Gun, which originally featured Michael Phillips on drums (original drummer of The Fuzztones). Phillips was later replaced by John Coakley, with whom they recorded one self-titled EP, produced by Peter Mavrogeorgis (Bellmer Dolls, Tav Falco's Panther Burns) at Dollhouse Studios. Coakley eventually left the group, and “Jungle” Jim Chandler became the drummer, after being introduced to Sicco by mutual friends.

 

 

A native of Colorado, “Jungle” Jim Chandler came to NYC after a stint playing drums in The Cramps during their 2003 European tour (replacing then-drummer Harry Drumdini) and recording/touring for years with Sub-Pop artists The Makers, while Sicco was drawn to NYC from his homeland of Italy (precisely the ‘Maremma' area of Tuscany) by the Velvet Underground, Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”, and ‘70s punk, bringing with him the aesthetic/sounds of ‘60s Italian cinema. 

 

 

Upon the breakup of My Happy Gun (due to irreconcilable differences with the then-bass player), Sicco and Chandler decided to carry-on as a two-piece. Bonding over a mutual passion for B-Movie culture and, of course, The Cramps, they decided that this stripped-down, no-nonsense lineup will be ideal for a new start, more in line with their shared passion for garage-punk, and decided to write all-new repertoire. A successful first show (a tribute to Lux Interior and The Cramps) proved truthful in their intuition.

 

 

Playing his guitar (a Fender Jaguar) simultaneously through a guitar and a bass amp, singing through a reverb box, while Jungle Jim pounded the skins with vigorous primitive power, Twin Guns produced an impressive wall of sound, garnering a reputation for being one of the loudest, as well as atmospheric and impressive rock and roll acts around.

 

 

Releasing their first two albums as a duo (“Scene of the Crime” in 2011, recorded by David Horowitz in an abandoned then destroyed Brooklyn church, and “Sweet Dreams” in 2012, at famed, and now defunct Brooklyn’s Excello Studio by Hugh Pool, and mixed by Matt Verta-Ray), they recruited Kristin Fayne-Mulroy, a NYC native, in 2014 to play bass, and further amplify their sonic palette. In 2015 they were signed by HoundGawd! Records, and released their 3rd album, “The Last Picture Show”, joining a roster of artists that includes, among others, The Fuzztones, Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind, The Raymen, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Born Loose. “The Last Picture Show” was recorded and co-produced at N.Y. Hed Studio in New York’s lower east side by Matt Verta-Ray (Heavy Trash, Speedball Baby, Madder Rose) and Rocio Verta-Ray, and mastered by Grammy-Award-winning producer and engineer Michael Tudor.  Their new, and fourth album IMAGINARY WORLD is available on Big Neck Records. It was recorded by David Horowitz, and mastered by legendary Detroit knob-twiddler Jim Diamond. TWIN GUNS has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, and the U.K., and in 2017 their track "Now I Understand" was featured in the Riverdale TV series.

 

 

MUSICAL STYLE AND INFLUENCES

 

Wearing black leather jackets, sunglasses, and bearing a confrontational attitude, TWIN GUNS creates a blend of dark, reverberated rock-n-roll, often associated with the surf-rock psychedelic genre, mid-sixties garage punk, and primitive 1950’s rockabilly (especially Link Wray), as well as bearing elements of the darker side of eighties post-punk. Furthermore, Sicco’s cinematically-inspired compositions have brought comparisons to the spaghetti-western Soundtrack genre (see Ennio Morricone). Upon the release of the 2015 album “The Last Picture Show” (on German label HoundGawd! Records) the band coined the term “Garage Noir”, to best describe the mood created by their music, and in part as a homage to the world and work of David Lynch, as well as to certain 1950’s noir romanticism.

 

 

AN “ENGAGING JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF GARAGE-PUNK DARKNESS”

 

Described as a reverberating sonic tornado that sucks up and spits out elements of ‘60s punk, biker instrumentals, spaghetti-westerns, surf-rock and psychedelia, TWIN GUNS has shared the stage with legends such as Dick Dale, Kid Congo Powers, The Chrome Cranks, The Paul Collins Beat, Chrome Cranks, Detroit Cobras, The Cynics, The Vibrators, The Bullys, The Monsters, Lyres, Cheater Slicks, Lubricated Goat, Swinging Neckbreakers, The Veldt, Reagan Youth, Peelander-Z, as well as contemporary Spindrift, Acid Baby Jesus, Fat White Family, White Mystery, Pop 1280, Daddy Long Legs, Capsula, The Love Me Nots.

 

TWIN GUNS is being regularly played on radio stations such as KALX 90.7FM Berkeley, WFMU/Sirius Radio, WFMU/Three Chord Monte, KEXP/Sonic Reducer, WMBR Radio Boston, WMSE/Zero Hour, WSOU/Campus Buzz, KUOM/Radio K, BBOX/The Rodent Hour, RnR Manifesto, among others.

 

 

 

DISCOGRAPHY

SINGLES 7":

Safe (Playing with Fire) / Little Subway Rider (2011, Killer Diller Records - US)

Attack of the Zombie Girls / The Human Jungle (2015, Rockin’ Records - Canada)

 

 

ALBUMS:

Scene of the Crime EP (2011, Self-Released - US) - OUT OF PRINT

Sweet Dreams (2012, Self-Released - US)

The Last Picture Show (2015, HoundGawd! Records - Germany)

Imaginary World (2018, Big Neck Records - USA)

 

 

COMPILATIONS:

No Red Tape 2 (2011, Puta! Records - US) - Cassette-only release

-Druggy & Suicidal