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4/17/26.

Over the course of the next few day (and possibly weeks), you might see some posts related to records I recently bought. I don't go record shopping as much as I used to. First, record stores are really expensive. But probably more important, they don't carry a lot of the music I listen to on Bandcamp. As you're probably aware, I spend my "allowance" on Bandcamp.

This last time out I found the 2nd Party Boys album - "No Aggro". This was their 1984 release for Bruce Licher's (Savage Republic) Independent Project Records. I always love albums from this label. The packaging is of the highest quality. And of course, it doesn't hurt that my first memory of the label is its release of Camper van Beethoven "Telephone Free Landslide Victory".

One of the members of Party Boys was Marnie Weber (Los Angeles, California/Milford, Connecticut). Just recently, British label Phantom Limb released "Returning Home: The Music of Marnie Weber". After Party Boys, Weber continued making music but focused on visual art as well.

Read the Bandcamp notes for this release and you'll realize the Weber has lived a life where her music and visual art have floated in and out of one another. Meeting Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore at one of her exhibitions led to a release on Moore's label. Working for Licher's label introduced her to bands 17 Pygmies and White Glove Test.

And if you want to listen to Party Boys...by all means click on No Aggro.

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Savage Republic | Scenic | Interview | Bruce Licher - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

The notorious Los Angeles-based post-punk legends Savage Republic, originally named Africa Corps formed in the early 1980s by four college s

2024, to birthday BRUCE LICHER The notorious Los Angeles-based post-punk legends Savage Republic, originally named Africa Corps formed in the early 1980s by four college students obsessed with music .

I remember that the first "strangest" albums out of the box that I bought were SAVAGE REPUBLIC ( Tragic Figures

1982) in addition to UK DECAY ( Post-Punk, Gothic Rock, Deathrock, Art Punk) FLYING LIZARDS, THE STUMP, etc....

THEY ARE ONE OF THE MOST UNDERRATED BANDS, without a doubt

Formed 1980, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Bruce Licher was the founding member of the band, including the mid-1990s instrumental post-rock band Scenic.

His life revolves around music and records as he’s also the owner and founder of Independent Project Records. Savage Republic’s visceral, cathartic blend of punk, surf rock, industrial music, psychedelia, soundtracks and Middle Eastern nods would have no imitators.

It did prove eye-opening for many: the recently released reissue of Savage Republic’s debut ‘Tragic Figures’ features fond memories and homages from friends and peers that were irretrievably struck by this proudly unique band, from Kendra Smith and Michael Stipe to Mike Watt and Nels Cline.

When Savage Republic first got together, comprising UCLA students Bruce Licher, Mark Erskine, Philip Drucker (aka Jackson Del Rey) and Jeff Long, their favored practice space was one-of-a-kind, too. By then still calling themselves Africa Corps, they used to tune in and let loose in the concrete parking structures of their campus.

Initially starting as Africa Corps, Savage Republic were formed in 1980 by Bruce Licher (guitar) and Mark Erskine (percussion), with Jackson Del Rey (guitar) and Jeff Long (bass) soon joining in.

Licher was a student at UCLA, and was inspired to buy a guitar after hearing the No New York album (with DNA and Mars particularly making a big impression on him), and quickly formed Neef. He met Erskine during a course at UCLA, and he soon invited him to attend sessions of Neef.

After the two put out a couple of singles for Licher’s newly started Independent Project Records as Project 197 and Bridge (the former featuring The Urinals’ Kevin Barrett on drums), they soon joined forces with Jackson Del Rey (who had played with Licher on Them Rhythm Ants) and Jeff Long – founding a band under the name of Africa Corps.

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Savage Republic - Kill The Fascists!

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Savage Republic - Kill The Fascists!

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Mobilization: The Savage Republic Story Savage Republic, the L.A. based drone-rockers and post-rock forefathers, have announced that they are reforming for a series of reunion shows this November, thirteen years after they split. From what I remember, I was first introduced to their sound through an NME review of their Trudge E.P. by Chris Bohn- this review spoke of a band that combined Eastern music with rock like a soundtrack to a desert landscape. There is a very cinematic sounding quality throughout the work of the band and Bruce Licher's later band Scenic that seems ripe for plucking as soundtrack stuff. This is a musical direction that group leader Bruce Licher has claimed was intentional and that has been made use of before. Also consider that the track "Real Men," from their first LP Tragic Figures, soundtracks the scene at the climax of The Silence Of the Lambs. This visual/cinematic quality may come from the fact that the bandleader was an art Student when he formed the band in UCLA in '81. As the leader of Scenic, he still runs his own letterpress, making CD sleeves etc in a recognizable style that's graced a lot of other people's work too.

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When it comes to the life and work of local resident Bruce Licher, I am embarrassed by my ignorance. Licher, who runs the Independent Project Press in Bishop with his[...]

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SAVAGE IMPRESSIONS: BRUCE LICHER & INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS

Bruce Licher’s rise to the top of post-punk graphic design began in 1980 as a means to package the music for his own bands, Project 197 and Savage Republic. Gradually, his “handmade” style—out of the ordinary, eye-catching graphics created on letterpress, sans computer gimmickry—gained the attention of bigger clients, including Camper van Beethoven, Stereolab, and R.E.M., but his Independent Project Records & Press also influenced other independent graphic designers working in the music industry. Richie Unterberger spoke with Bruce Licher about Savage Impressions, a new book that showcases the IPR archives and his own career.