The Heroine Sheiks

Whether taking the stage naked, genitalia lathered in shaving cream, howling into the microphone with mousetraps dangling from his ears, or doing headstands on a club PA stack in a platinum blonde wig or shower cap, Shannon Selberg's career with Minneapolis' infamous Cows was anything but subtle. By the early to mid-'90s, Selberg had emerged as the Crispin Glover of the noise rock community, known as much for his quixotic personality traits and stage outfits as his freaked-out drawn-on tattoos and demented bugle playing. And over the course of nearly a dozen albums, the Cows p...