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The American Devices
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Member Since3/27/2006
Band Websitewww.snubdom.com
Band MembersRick Trembles guitar/vocals, Rob Labelle guitar/vocals, Andre Asselin bass, Howard Chackowicz drums, (plus various guests on vox/guit).
InfluencesVoidoids, early Contortions, Iggy & The Stooges, early David Cronenberg, Buzzcocks, early John Waters, "Switched On Bach" (Walter/Wendy Carlos), early Feelies, Captain Beefheart, Krazy Kat, early Ramones, Hans Bellmer, Lesley Gore, Jimi Hendrix, early underground comix, Johnny Thunders, early Stranglers, Ray Harryhausen, The Germs, "Their Satanic Majesties Request" (Rolling Stones), Fleischer Bros animated cartoons, Pussy Galore, "Street Hassle" (Lou Reed), The Shangri-Las, The Cramps, Basil Wolverton, The Dickies, "Black Cross" (45 Grave), Suicide, Lydia Lunch, Bubblegum Music
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Record Labelunsigned
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   About The American Devices
Montreal's longest lasting "post-punk" band THE AMERICAN DEVICES were formed in 1980 & have kept going to this day. Self-titled 22-song CD available thru Rick Trembles. Devices are presently working on new tunes for another CD & are available for gigs. Singer/guitarist Rob Labelle is also a published writer of fiction. Drummer Howard Chackowicz is a Harvey Award nominated cartoonist & radio personality on CBC's Wire Tap. Both Howard & bassist Andre Asselin also play in Nutsak featuring Sam Shalabi & Chris Burns (who has been a member of the Devices on & off since the 80's). Rick Trembles is also an animator whose film soundtracks often include material by various Devices/Nutsak members (GOOPY SPASMS), & cartoonist/author of the weekly Montreal Mirror comic-strip/movie review column MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY since 1998. He has 2 book compilations of his best strips available from FAB PRESS & radio shows of the same name archived at the publisher's website. Check out Rick & the band’s website SNUBDOM.COM for more news, comix, & free MP3s.



Here are a few recent reviews of the latest CD:

"As the first few notes start trickling in, the momentum behind the American Devices becomes unshakable" -Liz Worth, Exclaim! Magazine (Toronto)

"Onanistic/obsessive, & in their singular way, brilliant, ...irreducible" -Mark Lepage, The Gazette (Montreal)

"Intricacies & idiosyncrasies pushing the envelopes of punk ethos, proggy complexity, & twisted pop charm" -Rupert Bottenberg, The Montreal Mirror

"An essential possession for any serious lover of Montreal music" -Martin Siberok, Hour (Montreal)

"Authentically delirious thick-skinned psychedelic alterno-punk" -Serge Paradis, Ici (Montreal)

"Really weird music... sounds like The Velvet Underground meets The Fast" -John Holmstrom's Punk Magazine (New York City)

"Wiggley surf guitar on amphetamines, perverse lyrics, obscure mythology, & refusal to die" -Terrence Dick, Broken Pencil Magazine (Toronto)

"The real deal… hits you with its euphoric minimalism & penchant for the unpredictable, songs spinning & twittering into manic claustrophobia, jangly angles, fraught bass-lines & hyperactive freak-outs" -Liz Worth, Eye Weekly (Toronto)

Here are a few other review excerpts from over the years:

MASSACHUSETTS' FORCED EXPOSURE MAGAZINE REVIEW BY JIMMY JOHNSON: American Devices are a post-everything (even if they precede some of these "things") guitar based outfit. They're off center enough to be of interest & they obviously don't steal their influences from any one source. Hard-assed guitar burn (more drilling than riffing), a weird control of melodicism (for some reason I keep internally comparing 'em to Bailter Space, which may not be accurate but there is something to it) and a healthy, downtrodden lyrical touch...

CALIFORNIA'S FLIPSIDE MAGAZINE REVIEW BY KRK: Another splendid reason why sexually deprived art students on acid should not be exterminated, as opposed to popular belief. When not producing comix 'n' fanzines or short horror films, these multitalented nuts can be heard pounding and assaulting their instruments into a push 'n' shove, guitar-detailed dreamland. Combining countryish, 60's, folk, with modern-day distortion-fest noise at unbelievable speeds and accuracy, they make most of those SST "new generation" bands look like high school talent show rejects...

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE'S THE BOB MAGAZINE REVIEW BY FRED MILLS: Truly bizarre stuff, ranging from several psychobilly numbers (including "Coalshaft," live at a psychiatric hospital) to fairly complex prog-funk-rock-guitar workouts. "What is the Meaning of Life (The Abortion That Lived)" takes off from a nominal series of twisted surf riffs and heads off into Bob Fripp-meets-D. Boon territory. A guitar nut's dream with only a few overly indulgent moments; spazz-out sections populate each track, coming outta dimensional folds and trapdoors to buzz around the head like android flies. The lyrics similarly spit invective at perceptual placidity, asking the listener to explore the inner axis and ponder "the effects" of interpersonal-chemical chaos. Far from being a bunch of hyper manic-depressives, these Canadians chart new avenues in polyrhythmic exploration and guitar/bass (frequently six-string) interplay. That is I dig it mightily...

GREEN BAY WISCONSIN'S SICK TEEN MAGAZINE REVIEW BY REVEREND NORBERT E. UGLY: Ye gods, a bunch of twisted Art Canucks three-quarters out of their minds on Ibuprofen and Doran's Lager oozing out a spate of dagger-to-the-gonads, rockin-the-monad spew complete w/Upwardly Noodley bass, wobbly guitar and nervous beats... I betcha seein' 'em live would be no small treat...

CLEVELAND, OHIO'S ALTERNATIVE PRESS MAGAZINE REVIEW BY MARK RHODES: A remarkable Canadian quartet. They've never fallen into a mode that you could hang a date on or see as moving wholly along one path. Songs are uniformly busy with guitar riffs that veer into surprising directions ("Trigger Off" suggests what the Grateful Dead might sound like if they played hardcore before jumping into a thrash/wah realm of smile-pop), but they're sculpted into the mix in more of an art/pop than hard rock way. The ethos is perturbed liberal. Rick Trembles (guitar, vocals, bass) is a visual artist whose works appeared in Robert Crumbs Weirdo Comix. I imagine they're all very close, dear people, repeatedly stunned by the reticence of their neighbours...


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Jun 9 2009 10:36 PM

Thanks for the add. I've been spinning the cd almost non-stop these past couple of days
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Mar 18 2009 4:50 AM

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Mar 9 2009 2:45 PM

hei devices! we are playing with fear eat soul and manymental mistakes this saturday march 14th @ bistro de paris. come you'll enjoy that magic moment. many suprises like licornes and tammed grizzly and shaman, 3d effects...
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Jan 5 2009 5:40 PM

Thanks for the add Rick ! Happy New Year !
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Oct 9 2008 2:35 AM

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 Amy



Aug 31 2008 10:07 PM

Thanks for the add! Have a stellar Weekend.
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Jul 21 2008 7:07 PM

I enjoy your music!
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Jul 21 2008 5:09 AM

we've added a VERY rough mix of one of our new songs (TRENCHES AND STARS) up on our myspace page

it's not quite finished, but it gives you an idea of what our new stuff is gonna sound like

ENJOY
Darius

Darius James



Jul 3 2008 1:38 PM

Never Mind Richard Grossman's stupid movie, HERE COMES THE RAMONES!!!

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Jun 12 2008 4:17 PM

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May 31 2008 3:21 AM

rick!!!!!!! can i have a copy of aftermath
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May 13 2008 1:11 PM

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Apr 16 2008 7:09 AM

im there most of the time anyway so its safe to say i'll be there, but it better be silly.
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Apr 16 2008 6:40 AM

i like your songs.
Will Glass

Will Glass



Feb 29 2008 5:06 AM

Dudes: I saw a copy of "Decensortized" -- one of about two dozen discs in the Post-Punk/New-Wave section -- at Friends of Sound Records in Austin, Texas. $4.99 USD. A steal for some lucky shopper!
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Feb 9 2008 12:36 AM

FRIEND...GOOD!

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Feb 9 2008 12:35 AM

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Feb 3 2008 12:40 AM

yea old pics that would great sure send them too me.if theres anything from england you want ask me i might find it for cheap.
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Feb 2 2008 4:34 AM

hey rickles long time no see or hear
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Jan 22 2008 11:36 PM

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