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VIDEO: Times New Viking live at Great Scott. Watch more video at On the Download.

All-Time Best Band: Pere Ubu
All-Time Best Solo Artist: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Best New Band: Times New Viking

Rust Belt noise-punk artisans Pere Ubu craft distressed pop. Listen to “Blow Daddy-O,” from the eerily beautiful Dub Housing, enough times and you’ll start to hear melodies in the humming of copy machines and air conditioners. | Not only did the nose-boned Screamin’ Jay Hawkins prefigure the piercing craze by almost five decades, but he was also the world’s wildest purveyor of primordial, swampy blues pop — never mind that his Cleveland home is a time zone away from Cajun country. | Hissy-fitting, font-inventing Times New Viking are a Columbus-based three piece with a Gang of Four–style attack. Their lo-fi Marshalls go martial.

Video: Pere Ubu
Video: Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Download: Times New Viking, "My Head/RIP Allegory" (mp3)

Listen: Pere Ubu, "30 Seconds Over Tokyo"

Listen: Screamin' Jay Hawkins, "I Put a Spell on You"

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Re: Ohio

 No Two Cow Garage? Nicely done!

By TheJoker on 07/03/2008 at 9:45:43

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so... what about DEVO, eh? 

By christine on 07/03/2008 at 6:37:30

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 No Guided by Voice?! no Black Keys?!

By davemerican on 07/08/2008 at 5:16:52

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NIN?

By palooza1989 on 07/10/2008 at 7:40:56

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Nine Inch Nails, Black Keys, Maynard of tool is from Ohio as well as marilyn manson.   

By hutchitl on 07/17/2008 at 9:54:08

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Nine Inch Nails, Black Keys, Maynard of tool is from Ohio as well as marilyn manson.  

By hutchitl on 07/17/2008 at 9:54:34

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others from ohio, dave grohl, scott wyland, and chrissy hynd (the pretenders) 

By hutchitl on 07/17/2008 at 10:10:36

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DEVODEVODEVODEVODEVODEVODEVODEVO???and yay times new viking! 

By mattmatt on 07/29/2008 at 3:01:18

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 what, no mention of Saving Jane or ekoostik hookah?  And who the heck are these other bands?

By spdragoo on 07/30/2008 at 7:11:21

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