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SEPTEMBER 26-29
MEMPHIS, TN
  
  
 
+ tons more to be announced soon!
** Celebrating 20 Years of Goner & the 10th Anniversary of Goner Fest **
This year’s festival will showcase Memphis bands alongside amazing bands from all over the world. Both bands and attendees travel the globe to get to Goner Fest. Over the past 10 years, music fans from Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Central America, and all across the United States have come to Memphis for the festivities.
This year, we are going ALL OUT because... 20 YEARS OF GONER!! Make your travel plans now!
TICKETS WILL BE ON SALE SOON!
"Whereas most groups originally (wrongly or otherwise) associated with the grunge movement have broken up, fallen apart, reunited as shells of their former selves or disappeared entirely (I’m looking at you, Sugartooth), Mudhoney kept on kicking out the garage-rocking, punk-infused, psycho-blues jams, ignoring the trends of the day in favor of scorching feedback, rumbling bass and the inimitable voice of Mark Arm." - Matt Korvette
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COSMIC PSYCHOS (Melbourne, Australia)
For 30 years, the Cosmic Psychos have blazed a trail of empty beer cans and busted ear drums around the globe with their quintessential Australian drawl and pounding punk rock songs.
With the founding member Ross Knight finding inspiration from the Bulldozer he drove on the family farm in country Victoria, the band forged a unique sound and image that resonated with punk rock fans everywhere.
Iconic label Sup Pop! released their second album when the band fell into the ‘Seattle’ scene of the late 80’s amidst the likes of Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and The Melvins.
Never quite finding the mainstream success of their grunge counterparts, the band managed to tour heavily in the USA and Europe thanks to a large and devoted fan base. The Cosmic Psychos were notorious for their ability to drink pubs dry, earning them a reputation that resonated around as a warning - “Never drink with the ‘Psychos”.
Along with the live performance, "Comic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust" will screen at Goner Fest 10!
"...equal parts Stooges riffs, Ramones tempos, lashings of wah wah guitar, American 1980s hardcore attitude and a healthy dose of yobbo humour." - Ian McFarlane
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THE ONYAS (Melbourne, Australia)
Loud, uncomplicated, straight-up, Australian rock and roll. Lyrics about getting drunk and getting laid over top of Chuck Berry riffs. So authentic you can almost smell the pub carpet! Jaws is in The Casanovas, Rich is in a slew of bands including the Ooga Boogas, The Unfuckable and helps run Aarght! Records, John McKeering (Macka) is in the Cosmic Psychos, the Boondall Boys and Ich Bin Ein Esel.
"The Onyas sometimes blasted through their songs like their world depended on it and sometimes like they'd rather be laying pipes in a ditch, which was probably the only distinguishing characteristic that separated them from so many other bands of their type." - AllMusic
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C.C. RIDERS (Memphis, TN)
The year is 2001; imagine a "...Memphis super-jam group led by Monsieur Jeffrey Evans, with a backing band made up of Jay Reatard (guitar) and Alicja Trout (drums) right around the genesis of Lost Sounds and James Arthur (who was also playing in the Legs at the time, post-Necessary Evils) on guitar as well." - Terminal Boredom
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They say it better than we ever could:
"Hi. We're Head. How's it going? We're from Seattle. We've been kicking around the hardscrabble streets of Queen Anne Hill since 1990. Head consists of Ree Ree on Bass/Vocals, Touch on Guitar and Tulu on Drums. The Giggles was a full time member of the band up until 1999 when he got his head screwed on straight and went into the Head Army Reserves. We've put out several records on our imprint Evil Clown Records as well as records on Steve Priest Fan Club, Regal Select and Goner. We average about 3 or 4 shows a year."
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DESTRUCTION UNIT (Phoenix, Arizona)
Originally conceived by Jay Reatard and Ryan Wong as a synth-punk project, Ryan Rousseau resurrected the project after Jay's passing and has turned it into the snarling, fiery, spaced-out beast it has since become.
Dug up from the sonic landfills of the cosmos, these radical desert dwellers have built a reputation for both mesmerizing and terrorizing crowds with their sheer power and intensity... Like running head first into a spinning wall of sound.
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CHEAP TIME (Nashville, TN)
Hailing from Tennessee, Cheap Time has been around in one incarnation or another since 2006. The nucleus has always been Jeffrey Novak, who writes and sings in addition to playing guitar and keyboards. A quintessential ingredient is the low-fi bombast with which they scuzz up their otherwise lightweight brand of simplified 1970s glam punk, packing an impressive amount of adolescent snottiness into two-minute blasts of sound with both precision and melody.
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BUCK BILOXI AND THE FUCKS (New Orleans, LA)
"Fantastic scum punk ready made from New Orleans, with moves heisted from classic no-fi units ranging from the Screaming Mee Mees right on to The Reatards. Damn good." - Byron Coley, The Wire
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