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 June 2017
New Monks for your listening pleasure!
The Monks CD and vinyl, "Hamburg Recordings 1967," featuring five previously unreleased songs by the Monks, was released by Jack White/Nashville's Third Man Records June 23rd. Four songs were recorded in Hamburg's Top Ten Club, on the Reeperbahn. One song, "I'm Watching You" is from a prior recording that was not released.
Read Will Share's review | Purchase a copy online
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May 2017
Eddie Shaw interview
Music junkie publication Levitation Magazine caught up with musician and bassist Eddie Shaw prior to the upcoming release of five never-before-heard Monks songs. Read the review here
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March 2017
"Boys are Boys" featured in iTunes commercial
The Monks were featuerd as part of Apple's iTunes new promotion, "sticker fight." Watch the video!
Update: as of July 2017 the video had 8 million views and counting...
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April 22, 2009
Monks Album Mentioned in NYT
"The joyously hostile songs on the Monks’ 1966 album, “Black Monk Time” — newly reissued on the Light in the Attic label — would be essential, strange 1960s artifacts even without the band’s back story. The Monks were American G.I.’s stationed in Frankfurt who after their discharge in 1964 stayed there, put on robes and shaved their hair into tonsures to play songs expatriated not just from the United States but from anything approaching sanity. With instruments including a typical cheap electric organ and an atypical electric banjo, they cackled through songs that straddled skiffle and garage-rock, mixed vocal harmonies with atonal yowls and encompassed both relentless one-chord minimalism and peculiar stabs at pop. The album starts with a jittery antiwar screed, “Monk Time,” and goes on to juggle come-ons, tirades and manic, beat-driven nonsense. The levels of craftsmanship, savage glee, concept, put-on and inspiration are innumerable and inseparable."
Available online here.
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November, 2009
Long Lost Monks Song Released!
The long lost song that was too radical to release - Pretty Suzanne - was dug up by super lost-recordings sleuth, Martin Christoph. To the surprise and with the blessing of the monks, it is the A side on a new single vinyl recording, released on the Red Lounge label.
Learn more and find copies to purchase online
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