Dan Nishimoto - 12/Jun/2009  Do you only need three chords and the truth In the case of the Monks, five ex-G.I.'s and four svengalis complete the picture. The short-lived band --...
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Joe Tangari - 20/Apr/2009 Alright, my name's GaryLet's go, it's beat time, it's hop time, it's monk time!On paper, it's hard to imagine a couplet that looks less like an opener...
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Stewart Lee - 19/Apr/2009  Whatever revisionist historians of the roots of krautrock and garage-punkmight tell you, nobody used to rate the five ecclesiastically tonsured andrec...
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cloudspeakers - 14/Apr/2009  The story of the Monks has been told before, but it certainly bears repeating. In the early ?60s five bored American GIs living on an army base in a s...
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Pete Paphides - 11/Apr/2009  Now with several extra tracks, the only album by this radically tonsuredquintet has long accrued mythical status. Though American, their collectivelif...
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Andy Gill - 10/Apr/2009  Some idea of the direction into which proto-garage-punk band the Monks sought to guide rock'n'roll can be gleaned from the fact that four tracks from ...
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Peter Kimpton - 15/Mar/2009  A real gem: five US GIs stationed in Germany who stayed, shaved their heads into tonsures and pumped out anarchic garage protest songs. Influential an...
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