Dustdevils
{{Short description|Noise rock band}}
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| genre = Noise rock
| years_active = 1984-1990s
| label = Matador Records, TeenBeat Records
| associated_acts = Pavement, Sonic Youth
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| current_members = Michael Duane, Mark Ibold, Dave Reid, Sasha Frere-Jones, Keith Gregory
| past_members = Jaqi Dulany, Gerard Cosloy, Adam Cormack
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The Dustdevils (sometimes styled as DustDevils, Dust Devils, or DUSTdevils) were a noise rock band based out of New York City for most of its existence. Active from the 1980s through the mid 1990s, the Dustdevils were among the first artists to be signed to Matador Records. Its members included bassist Mark Ibold, who later joined Pavement and Sonic Youth in 1992 and 2006, respectively.{{cite web | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703440604575496641914070042 | title=Pavement's Ibold Comes Home | work=Wall Street Journal | date=18 September 2010 | accessdate=4 October 2014 | author=Bennett, Bruce}}{{cite web | url=http://thequietus.com/articles/01947-sonic-youth-interviewed-a-rude-awakening | title=Sonic Youth Interviewed: A Rude Awakening | work=The Quietus | date=23 June 2009 | accessdate=4 October 2014 | author=Turner, Luke}} Ibold met the band while working at a restaurant in the East Village and performed on their album Struggling Electric and Chemical.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qEDy-DVH6usC | title=Perfect Sound Forever: The Story of Pavement | publisher=Justin, Charles & Co. | author=Rob Jovanovic | author-link=Rob Jovanovic | year=2004 | pages=72, 213| isbn=9781932112078 }} Sasha Frere-Jones also played guitar in the group for a time.
History
The band formed in 1984, when British expat Michael Duane, the band's guitarist, met Jaqi Dulany (also known as Jaqui Delaney and Jacqui Cohen), the band's Australian-born vocalist, in New York City. The band then relocated to Leeds from 1986 to 1988, during which time they released several records on Rouska and Keith Gregory of the Wedding Present joined the band as their bassist.{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dustdevils-mn0000154363/biography | title=Dustdevils Biography | work=AllMusic | accessdate=18 June 2017 | author=Ankeny, Jason}}{{cite web | url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=dustdevils | title=Dustdevils | work=Trouser Press | accessdate=4 October 2014 | author=Mamone, Jordan}} They released a Kramer-produced 7" entitled "Is Big Leggy" on TeenBeat Records in 1989, followed by Geek Drip later that year and Struggling Electric and Chemical in 1990. The Wharton Tiers-produced Struggling was released jointly by TeenBeat and Matador,{{cite web | url=http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/11/struggling-electric-and-chemical-a-dustdevils-interview.html | title=Struggling Electric and Chemical: A Dustdevils Interview | work=WFMU | date=2 November 2010 | accessdate=4 October 2014 | author=Goldstein, Alex}} and opened with a cover of "Hip Priest" by The Fall, which was described by Greg Kot as "a mind-blowing masterpiece of corrosion and decay."{{cite web | url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-01-31/features/9101090706_1_dust-devils-star-sonic-youth | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006100056/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-01-31/features/9101090706_1_dust-devils-star-sonic-youth | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 6, 2014 | title=Dust Devils Struggling, Electric and Chemical | work=Chicago Tribune | date=31 January 1991 | accessdate=4 October 2014 | author=Kot, Greg}} Jaqi and Michael split in 1993, which left Michael to look for replacement vocalists.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJfGtREyuSAC&pg=RA12-PT94 | title=The Great Indie Discography | publisher=Canongate Books | author=Strong, Martin Charles | year=2003 | pages=94| isbn=9781841953359 }} Also that year, Gerard Cosloy stopped playing with the band as their stand-in bassist.{{Cite magazine |last=Fretts |first=Bruce |date=1993-10-22 |title=Power 101: Quentin Tarantino, Dr. Dre and other rising stars |url=http://ew.com/article/1993/10/22/power-101-quentin-tarantino-dr-dre-and-other-rising-stars/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |language=en-US}}
Discography
- Seeds In The Spoil — 1987 (Rouska)
- Rhenyard's Grin — 1987 (Rouska)
- Mother Shipton — 1987 (Rouska)
- The Dropping Well — 1987 (Rouska)
- Gutter Light — 1988 (Rouska)
- Geek Drip — 1989 (Matador)
- "... Is Big Leggy" — 1989 (Teenbeat)
- Struggling Electric and Chemical — 1990 (Teenbeat/Matador)
- "Extant" — 1996 (Matador)