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Necessity is the mother of all invention.

In the year 2000 Artist/bike messenger/town drunkard Jake Hout was dragged under a truck, broke his pelvis and tore massive areas of flesh off his legs and torso. This led to an extended period of time lying on the couch on disability and morphine with nothing to do. From this violent injury and subsequent malaise was born the band EVERYTHING MUST GO.

Generally speaking the greater scene of Punk Rock in Oakland at the time was actually just metal, and sucked for the most part besides. The mission of Everything Must Go was to revive some of the showmanship, danger, sexuality and goddamn fun to the Bay Area’s underground music scene.

Within the year the band had released the debut album Apocalipstic on Dead Teenager records, lost and replaced a guitarist and basest, and Jake had garnered a reputation for strapping fireworks to his chest and detonating into the audience, setting band members on fire and breaking his leg on tour in Portland. Without any doubt everyone agreed it was NOT going to last.

Bizarrely that turned out to be wrong! For 8 years now the band has continued to tour release records, injure themselves on stage, even learn a degree of professionalism and fucking rock! Honing the rawer elements of the song writing to create more textured arrangements and a bigger sound and staying true the general philosophy of the bands role as an agent of chaos and instigator of wild fun times.

In 2008 they released the long awaited Sonic Pornography on Calendar of Death records. An album consisting of many now favorites like I Hate Music and Songs About Killing People along with newer songs written in the studio, like Alcoholic Blitzkrieg and Rock and Roll Jihad. The band recorded and mixed the album entirely them self’s, and released it in vinyl. Like Rock and Roll should be!

Through the unforgiving road of the underworld, in a story wrought with both musical and personal triumphs and tragedies, this band has persevered, danced with extinction, survived and thrived. It’s a motherfucking institution now. The antidisestablishmentarianistic iconoclast…
EVERYTHING MUST GO.

MAXIMUM ROCK AND ROLL March 2009 issue of "Top Tens of 2008"
Everything Must Go - "Sonic Pornography" LP/CD (Calender of Death) "Oakland's best band in years, Everything Must Go combines a healthy love for the Dead Boys and Turbonegro's Apocalypse Dudes with their own twisted, catchy take on life from around the bend. Yes, it's got the requisite number of Oakland punk veterans to boast the songwriting talent and punk rock riffs that other bands would kill for-think Christ on Parade's "Pressure to Succeed" crossed with Fang's "The Money Will Roll Right In." All of this makes Everything Must Go much more than just another band whose lead singer blows himself up every show with a jacket of fireworks in a series of pills-and-alcohol-fueled explosions! Yes, you read that right-he blows himself up onstage. There's no way this record couldn't be frickin' great."
Jessie Lucious

The SF WEEKLY Says… No Returns, No Exchanges A snarling wolfpack of inebriated rock 'n' roll animals, Everything Must Go kicked off its 2001 debut with a happy little ditty called "F.T.W." This year's offering, Sonic Pornography, is no better adjusted. Song titles help spell out the sociopathy at work: "Alcoholic Blitzkrieg," "I Hate Music," "Songs About Killing People," "Legalize Murder," etc. Musically the band straddles coasts, mixing shots of N.Y.C. snot-rawk with chasers of drug-doomed L.A. drool, all spiked with hammy guitar solos to give glam-punx their Johnny Thunders fix. It's top-notch/bottom-shelf entertainment for the sick and/or misanthropic, so haters, punks, and junkies should fuck the world along with Everything Must Go! -John Graham

Buy Everything Must Go's album, "Sonic Pornography."

Also available at Calendar of Death Records

And Axis Records and Comix