Thelonious Monster

Led by vocalist and songwriter Bob Forrest, Thelonious Monster were a Los Angeles-based rock band whose style found a middle ground between the purposeful chaos of punk and the more traditional but equally insouciant attack of alternative rock with dashes of blues and funk folded in. The group's sound was built on a foundation of guitars – at one point, the band boasted four guitarists – whose boozy clamor was a fine match for the insightful, streetwise lyrical outlook of Forrest. Thelonious Monster's earliest work (1986's Baby, You're Bummin' My Life Out in a Supreme Fashion)...