Wrong

Wrong is a Minneapolis-based noise rock collective centered on guitarists John Vance and Emil Hagstrom, with additional musicians joining as circumstances dictate during performances or recording sessions. The improvisational ensemble came together in the middle of 1994, issuing its initial self-released cassette, Secular Humanist Revival, before the year concluded. In 1995 the follow-up cassette Don't Get the Wrong Idea appeared, accompanied by untitled split cassettes shared with Noggin, the Finland Subterraund, and Das Ludicroix.

Further cassette-only projects followed, among them Two Rites in the Hand Don't Make a Wrong in the Bush, Right Place Wrong Time, If Lovin' You Is Right, I Wanna Be Wrong, and the eight-track-only Wrong Side of the Tracks, before Wrong achieved its first vinyl release via a 1996 split single alongside Tranquil. Output diminished noticeably during 1996 and 1997, limited to scattered compilation contributions, until the band issued its debut CD—the expansive two-disc, 33-track collection In the Wrong. Subsequent activity from the core duo declined still more sharply thereafter. A one-sided LP drawn from an April 1995 session surfaced as Vaginum in late 1998, with Hagstrom’s solo recordings collected on The Customer Is Always Wrong the next year. The 2000 CD Live At Even Furthur/High Society assembled two live sets originally recorded in 1996 and 1998.