Jerk! Twist! Twitch! With The Itchies

Last Sunday I got up bright and early for the latest installment of the Deadwax Record Show at the Hilton Garden Inn in Burlington, MA. I was pretty excited for it, as this was to be my first record expedition since before Thanksgiving. Unfortunately it was a bit of a bust, as I only walked away with a single 45; "Jerk! Twist! Twitch! with The Itchies," a local release out of Rhode Island from 1996.

When I saw The Sonics in 2015 at the Columbus Theatre in Providence, RI a pretty cool local band called Thee Itchies kicked off the evening. I bought the record thinking that it was the same band, however this 45 features a female vocalist, while the band as I saw them did not. I'm going to assume that the band simply changed their line-up, and that there aren't competing bands called The Itchies gigging around Rhode Island, although I'm not 100% on that.

The record opens with a pair of decent garage-punk tracks and concludes with a retro instrumental. Nothing groundbreaking or essential, but if you run into a copy for cheap you could probably do worse.

Check out: "Itchy Twitchy" live on Youtube