Dinner & The Maincourse's lyrics & chords

Punk ensemble active in Portland, OR between 2008 and 2009, bearing traces of influence from 70s post-punk and no-wave acts such as Glaxo Babies, James Chance & the Contortions, A Certain Ratio, Gang of Four, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks. Sound was characterized by the geometic precision of Mark Makowski's (Glitter Express) kinetic dance-oriented rhythms, Thomas Jefferson Walter's fragmented and primitively atonal guitar, and the incomprehensible, vaguely demonic vocals of Teysha Garrison, who was 17 years old when the band formed; the bass (pe...read more