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Best New Band, Formed In Last 12 Months
Paint Fumes
Staff Pick
The members of Charlotte's best new band revel in their sub-humble beginnings as musicians-in-residence at the Q.C.'s aptly christened Sewercide Mansion. With sonic forebears including the bluesy swamp punk of the Gun Club and the snotty garage riffs of the Seeds, Paint Fumes mix in the brain-rewired-after-serious-head-trauma aesthetic of brilliant '60s Lower East Side idiot savants The Fugs. Not ragged-but-right so much as wrong-on-so-many-levels, this noisy trio kicks out a queasy, exhilarating angel dust rush. Somewhere, rock-writing garage prophet Lester Bangs is cracking a chemically induced grin.
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Previous Winners
- 2013 Best New Band, Formed In Last 12 Months - Sherman Hellville
- 2012 Best New Band, Formed In Last 12 Months - My Secret Other Girlfriend
- 2011 BEST NEW BAND, FORMED IN LAST 12 MONTHS - SMALL TALK INDUSTRIES
- 2011 BEST NEW BAND, FORMED IN LAST 12 MONTHS - THE BEAR ROMANTIC
- 2010 BEST NEW BAND, FORMED IN LAST 12 MONTHS - TEMPERANCE LEAGUE
- 2010 BEST NEW BAND, FORMED IN LAST 12 MONTHS - Fat Camp!
- 2009 BEST NEW BAND, FORMED IN LAST 12 MONTHS - Coma League
- 2009 BEST NEW BAND, FORMED IN LAST 12 MONTHS - Eyes of the Elders w/ Stump Dickens
- 2007 Best New Band, Formed In Last 12 Months - Stone Figs
- 2007 Best New Band, Formed In Last 12 Months - Project Bluebird
