Retail Simps + Virvon Varvon

About Retail Simps + Virvon Varvon

Tha Retail Simps

What if the Velvet Underground had written ‘Wooly Bully’ and Sam The Sham ‘Sister Ray?' If Ron House picked up some bongos and joined CCR or If Half Japanese and Hasil Adkins started a Meters cover band? This is the scrap yard of the Retail Simp's mind. Short on practice and high on ideas, thee Retail Simple Tones are 4 well traveled and unraveled individuals, bound by a musical adventure. This is the southern soul of Memphian tradesmen flipped on it’s snowy head, the sound of impure regionalism. An alternate kind of Northern Soul with a frosty Arctic sheen. More spazzed out guitar, more howling lunacy, more heat of the moment, turnt poetry and outside the box-isms. 3 LPs, 2 7"s, 1 2xLP, many tapes and shows in, the band remains unpredictable and ill content with stasis and the status quo. As the returns for REAL rock n roll diminish exponentially, so do the Retail Simps expectations, however, like the pious Eunuchs of Sumeria, their mission and core spirit remains strongly in tact: Get it or don't, they're on a mission.

https://retailsimps.bandcamp.com/music

Virvon Varvon 

Two chord punk ragers featuring members of Black Time, Trash Culture, Candy Highway, The Jazz June and more. 
“Something for Crypt Records rockers and Total Punkers, post-hardcore boy/girl basement angst ALA Cupid Car Club circa 1993 live, and music from a label you can trust because Girlsville knows what’s up.” Turntable Report
“Punchy garage punk with the faintest whiff of art school cool wavering in its aura, calling to mind The Marked Men and Urinals in equal measure.” Maximum RocknRoll