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__NOTOC__ AIDS Wolf is a Canadian noise rock band, currently on Skin Graft Records. Quoting Captain Beefheart, they describe their sound as that of "a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag".
Name
According to singer Chloe Lum, the name "AIDS Wolf" comes from an urban legend wherein wolves carry AIDS and pass it to house pets who then pass it on to people:
"We didn’t come up with AIDS Wolf as a concept. The idea has been floating around in the public psyche for a while. In urban legend, wolves transmit AIDS instead of rabies; in depressing college towns, street gangs spray-paint ‘AIDS Wolf’ on the side of buildings." *The band has given other answers to similar questions, however:
"My partner and I were on a road trip in Ohio, and it just came to us. It was a universal message. It's a combination of our spirit peers in An Albatross (animal) and The Sick Lipstick (R.I.P.) (illness). It fits, because we're a little bit no–wave and a little bit hardcore, like each of those bands. It's also a message that we as humans must take care for our animal siblings as their health is a barometer of our own survival." *
Discography
- Freedom Summer cassette (2005)
- Live Deth (2005) Kitty Play Records
- AIDS Wolf/The Fugue 7" split (2005) Blood of the Drash Records
- UNRELEASED AIDS Wolf/Dmonstrations split (2005) S.A.F. Records
- The Lovvers LP (2006) Skingraft
See also
External links
"AIDS Wolf"