The Dictators
The Dictators
Latest Release
- My Imaginary Friend
- March 2024
- • 1 Song
Top Songs
| 1 | (I Live For) Cars and Girls | ||
| 2 | California Sun | ||
| 3 | Two Tub Man | ||
| 4 | Master Race Rock | ||
| 5 | The Next Big Thing |
Albums
Jan 2024 • 9 songs
Sep 2023 • 4 songs
Jun 2023 • 4 songs
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About
Biography
Formed in 1974, N.Y.C.'s Dictators were one of the finest and most influential proto-punk bands to walk the earth. Alternately reveling in and satirizing the wanton excesses of a rock & roll lifestyle and lowbrow culture (e.g., wrestling, TV, fast food), with their world-view defined by bassist/keyboardist and former fanzine publisher (Teenage Wasteland Gazette) Andy (occasionally Adny) Shernoff and renegade rock critic/theorist Richard Meltzer, the Dictators played loud, fast rock & roll fueled by a love of '60s American garage rock, British Invasion pop, and the sonic onslau...