Violent Femmes

BIOGRAPHY

Violent Femmes 10th studio album, HOTEL LAST RESORT, resides among the groundbreaking band’s  finest work, simultaneously refining and redefining their one-of-a-kind take on American music,  mingling front porch folk, post punk, spiritual jazz, country blues, avant garde minimalism and golden  age rock ‘n’ roll into something still altogether their own. Founded and fronted of course by singer/ 

guitarist Gordon Gano and acoustic bass guitarist Brian Ritchie, the Milwaukee-born combo remains as  warm, wise and weird as ever before, with such new favorites as “Another Chorus” and “Everlasting  You” continuing to mine the vast range of ideas, melodic complexity and organic sonic craftsmanship  that has characterized the band’s body of work since their landmark self-titled 1983 debut.  

“I think it’s probably the best [album] we’ve made since HALLOWED GROUND,” Ritchie says. “We didn’t  really know that we had something to say, but it turns out that the songs are really good and we were  able to sink our teeth into them and come up with something which is just as good as anything we’ve  ever done. I’m even a little bit surprised myself.”  [FULL BIO]