Hawnay Troof

Hawnay Troof is one of the musical projects of the man who calls himself Vice Cooler, the other being punk band XBXRX. Hawnay Troof has elements of punk but it's electro-punk, with added elements of sleazy lounge and gutter hip-hop influenced by the Beastie Boys. He took on the name in 2001 when he and a friend were too broke for entry to a show in Birmingham, AL, and they hit on the idea of sneaking in by pretending to be a band. With songs written that day using a pirated version of the FruityLoops software, they performed a brief and chaotic set before the show's headlining...