SKABBS - IDLE THREAT nat together with Johan Kugelberg

together with Johan Kugelberg

" — Terry Richardson Photographer/Director "If you've never been in the jungle

fanzine pieces

and the Hives (to name but a few) all sprang from an underground music scene where similarly raw bands

Sean Wheeler

SKABBS - IDLE THREAT nat together with Johan KugelbergLP Jackpot Records is proud to present IDLE THREAT, a collection of never before issued recordings from 1977 78 Lawndale, California punks, The Skabbs. In tandem with the birth of punk, these music obsessed nerds, bored and listless at the end of the 70s, became disenchanted with the increasingly plastic tendencies of modern music. The Skabbs concocted some truly outsider sounds, melding jagged Devo esque rhythms with lightning fast technical touches