Immensely talented, inspirational, ferocious and sweet whether with the Pandoras, Muffs, Pixies or Coolies. From 1985 to 1990, Shattuck was a member of The Pandoras.
The Muffs were an American punk rock band based in Southern California, formed in 1991. Kim Shattuck—the singer, songwriter, and guitarist behind the Muffs—has died. The glammy L.A. garage rock quartet earned national attention as part of the so-called Paisley Underground movement for its mid-’80s run of albums for imprints Rhino and Enigma. Her husband confirmed the news on social media, saying she passed after a …
Led by singer and guitarist Kim Shattuck, the band released four full-length studio albums in the 1990s, as well as numerous singles including "Lucky Guy" and "Sad Tomorrow", and a cover version of "Kids in America".
It comes out Oct. 18.The aim, Shattuck said, was to rage gracefully into old age.“When people get older, they get bitter or get cute,” Get all the day's most vital news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Mairo Cinquetti/NurPhoto via Getty Images Another rock and roll heavyweight passed away on Wednesday, as The Muffs lead singer and songwriter Kim Shattuck … Whether she was celebrating the whoosh of a first-crush love or questioning the potential of her future self, she delivered her lines with a snide snarl that recalled Pete Shelley’s melodic complaints for the Buzzcocks.“Will I fall or will I fly?” she wondered in “I Wish That I Could Be You.” The roaring song “Outer Space” might be about metaphorically orbiting Earth, but it opens with a decidedly blunt invitation: “I’m pathetic now / Won’t you ride with me?” The Muffs’ cover of the new wave hit “Kids in America,” as featured on the soundtrack to “Clueless,” captured the sneering, disaffected energy of the grunge era.The placement in that now-classic teen comedy was the closest the Muffs ever came to a mainstream hit. Shattuck once said she’d faked her way into the Pandoras gig: Asked if she played bass, she wrongly told them yes, and then figured it out.Punk rebellion wasn’t a trait she inherited, she told The Times’ Lorraine Ali in 1993. There was the warmth of her smile, which seemed to overtake the environment as she bantered between songs. The band wrote and recorded their final record, “No Holiday,” over the last few years. Kim Shattuck, Musician Who Fronted the Muffs, Is Dead at 56 A singer, songwriter and guitarist, she was in the vanguard of punk bands crashing into the mainstream in the 1990s.
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On paper, Shattuck seemed like a smart fit.
The prolific artist designed work for George Harrison and Ravi Shankar and turned her L.A. home into a crossroads for world music stars.Luedtke, a former executive editor of the Detroit Free Press, left journalism for Hollywood.
The Muffs’ first single made a dent in a national scene bubbling with kindred spirits including soon-to-be label-mates Green Day, as well as Hole, the Pixies, L7 and Babes in Toyland. He also wrote the screenplay for ‘Absence of Malice.’Kim Shattuck of the Muffs performs in Madrid in 2015. It was made possible through the band’s relationship with Warner Bros. Records, which signed Shattuck’s band in the early 1990s on the strength of a few independent singles.Born July 17, 1963, and raised in Orange County, Shattuck learned the art of performance as bassist for the Pandoras. “We’re very East Coast, very introvert.”After Shattuck’s death, the Pixies posted on social media that they were “devastated about Kim’s passing,” adding that she was “a genuine musician, writer and performer who committed her life for the cause. The Muffs’ second single was for Sub Pop, which had just struck pay dirt with Nirvana and Soundgarden.The Muffs’ self-titled Warner Bros. debut album contained 16 songs crammed into 40 minutes’ worth of distorted chords, bark-along verses and joyous refrains.The Muffs pushed through a trio of albums for Warner Bros.’ Reprise imprint, working the pop-punk angles while Green Day’s breakout success — replete with the same punchy Rob Cavallo production sound he’d perfected a year earlier with Shattuck’s band — consumed their label’s attention. In addition to her work with the Muffs, Shattuck was involved in numerous other musical projects: She sang on a Shattuck participated in a reunion of The Pandoras on July 4, 2015, at the Burger Boogaloo in Oakland, California.