Supreme Dicks

Supreme Dicks is an experimental rock group formed in 1984 by Jon Shere and Stuart Morris while students at Hampshire College. The band produced songs that combined dissonant lo-fi noise, avant-garde, and psychedelic sounds to realize dilapidated and warped song structures. The primary band members are Jon Shere, Daniel Oxenberg, Mark Hansen, Steve Shavel and often Jim Spring. Other members at various times have included Holly Cat, Jennifer Stefanisko, John Galvin III, and Dave Taub. The band also has a tradition of inviting others to play with them onstage. Most turn down this invitation. However, some of the musicians who actually took them up on this offer include Beck, Ted Vander Clute, Dan Kapelovitz, and Ariel Pink. The band has performed with Dinosaur Jr. The Supreme Dicks have toured with Neutral Milk Hotel, Kurt Vile, Truman’s water, and Bonnie Prince Billy.Other noteworthy moments in supreme dick history include: recording a Peel Session for John Peel, played on BBC 1 radio, the band Low covering Jack Smith on Low’s Transmission Ep, opening Dinosaur jr’s first reunion show, playing Rustin Louisiana with the Elephant 6 collective (Olivia Tremor Control, Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, Gerbils etc, Rustin being one of the few places supreme dicks were #1 on cmj radio charts) and playing shows with Cat Power, Beck, Arthur Lee, Red Krayola, Low, Helios Creed, Dirty Beaches, Urge Overkill, Ruins (japan), Sebadoh, Alvarius B, Skullflower, Bardo Pond, Smaller, the Lilys, the Wedding Present, Xylouris White, along with aforementioned Kurt Vile, Dinosaur Jr., Neutral Milk Hotel, Will Oldham, amongst countless others. The group's latest release is a major retrospective, entitled Breathing and Not Breathing, which was released on the Jagjaguwar label October 18, 2011.In 2012, the band played a limited number of shows, including three at South by Southwest, followed by a short tour with Kurt Vile. They were joined onstage for all of these shows by Holly Cat, who, as a teen Euro-pop sensation, had a hit single, "I Wanna Be Like a Madonna." The following year, 2013, the band toured Europe to much fanfare and have continued to play shows sporadically mostly in Los Angeles.