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The Violent Femmes: The Violent Femmes

Bill Holdship, Creem, October 1983

ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL frustration have long been central themes in rock, and Gordon Gano – the Violent Femmes' 20-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist – seems a perfect chronicler of adolescent anguish for the new age of teen psychosis.

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