Alice Donut

Alice Donut came together amid the punk scene on New York City's Lower East Side in 1987. Over the next eight years the group issued six studio albums plus one live LP captured at CBGB's before splitting for the first time. Early supporter Jello Biafra placed them on his Alternative Tentacles roster, the imprint that carried every release the band put out during the eighties and nineties. Their core punk approach sometimes incorporated touches of eccentric country and funk, yet the 1993 album Pure Acid Park edged toward a more commercial tone comparable to that of fellow psychedelic punks the Butthole Surfers. Commercial success remained elusive, leading to the 1995 breakup.

Afterward the members pursued separate paths, with drummer and trombonist Stephen Moses spending a brief period in Rasputina while vocalist Tomas Antona and bassist Sissi Schulmeister formed a family. In the late nineties Schulmeister, Moses, and guitarist Michael Jung resumed informal rehearsals; after two years of basement sessions they persuaded Antona to return. An unannounced reunion concert in August 2003 doubled as the release event for the equally low-profile reunion album Three Sisters. The live DVD London, There's a Curious Lump in My Sack surfaced in 2004, followed by the 2006 studio set Fuzz on Howler Records. Continued performances led the band back to Alternative Tentacles for its tenth album, 2009's Ten Glorious Animals. Marking their twenty-fifth anniversary in 2011, Alice Donut issued the documentary Freaks in Love, which featured conversations with Jello Biafra and Curt Kirkwood among others.