TSOL, Dwarves, Noogy, 13th Victim

In this corner: TSOL, four Long Beach thugs who began playing Damned-style speed-rock in the late Seventies before going macabre on 1981’s Dance With Me. They’ve followed an anything-goes ethos since, but still remain punk as fuck. In the opposite corner: mid-Eighties porn-thrash kings the Dwarves. They exited a Chicago garage behind 30-second blitzkrieg screeds about drugs and fucking. Amen. – Tim Stegall