Silver Daggers were an American Synthpunk

Synthpunk

Synthpunk is a music genre combining elements of electronic music and punk rock. The term was coined by Damian Ramsey in 1999 as an attempt to retroactively identify a small sub-genre of punk music from 1977 to 1984 that involved musicians playing synthesizers in place of electric...

/noise rock

Noise rock

Noise rock describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.-Style:Noise...

 band formed in 2003. Known for combining intense, atonal music with post-apocalyptic political ideas, they form part of the circle of musicians in close affiliation with The Smell

The Smell

The Smell is an all ages, alcohol and drug-free punk rock/noise/experimental venue in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The Smell, notable for its DIY ethic, is home to many of the area's avant-garde performers and artists...

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Discography

• "Shearing Pinx
  Shearing Pinx
  Shearing Pinx are an Experimental/Punk rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Formed in 2005, the band is made up of Nic Hughes and Jeremy Van Wyck ....
  
  /Silver Daggers" - Split 7" - Arbor CDR (2007)
• "New High & Ord" - LP/CD - Load Records
  Load Records
  Load Records is an American noise/experimental independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island. "Load Records might possibly be in possession of the world's most challenging record roster," writes Mark Hensch of Thrash Pit...
  
   (2007)
• "Siked Psych: Not Not Fun Gold" - CD compilation - Not Not Fun (2006)
• "Arbor" - CDR compilation - Arbor CDR (2006)
• "Bored Fortress" - Split 7" w/ Death Sentence: Panda - Not Not Fun (2006)
• "Zum Audio Volume 3" - CD Compilation - Zum (2006)
• "Sea & Sea Music Factory" - CS compilation - Not Not Fun (2005)
• "Silver Daggers" - 7" EP - Not Not Fun (2005)
• "Art School, No Bleed" - Live CDR - Self Released (2005)
• "Pasado de Verga" - CS - Not Not Fun (2005)
• "Silver Daggers/Blue Silk Sutures" - Split 7" - Kill Shaman Records (2005)
• "A Tradition of Destroying the L.A. Times Building" - Live CDR - Self Released (2004)

Line up

• WKSM - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , synthesizers, trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  s, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Jackson Baugh - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, vocals, bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , drums, synthesizer
• Jenna E. Thornhill - saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  s, vocals
• Steven T. Kim - bass, noise
  Noise music
  Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
  
  , whistle
  Whistle
  A whistle or call is a simple aerophone, an instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means...
  
  
• Marcus Savino - vocals, drums

Associated Acts

Mika Miko

Mika Miko

Mika Miko was a band formed in 2003 in Los Angeles, California. In 2004 they gained local popularity for their frenetic live performances. Featuring Victor Fandgore , Jet Blanca , Michelle Suarez, Jessica Clavin, and Jon Erik Edrosa, the original line up of the band made its first demo CD-R, its...

, No Age

No Age

No Age is a two-person American indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer/vocalist Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and is currently signed to Sub Pop records...

, Tearist

Tearist

Tearist is an American experimental electronic music and performance duo from Los Angeles consisting of Yasmine Kittles and William Stangeland Menchaca . Their self-titled debut album sold out within months and their live followup record, Living: 2009-Present, received mixed reviews due to the...

, The Strange Boys, Soddamn Inssein, Dead Banana Ladies, Aye Aye Captain, Frequency, Herr K, Yr. Dreams, Complete Sentences, Kirby 5 (Drown Pattern)

External links

• Silver Daggers on Load Records
  Load Records
  Load Records is an American noise/experimental independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island. "Load Records might possibly be in possession of the world's most challenging record roster," writes Mark Hensch of Thrash Pit...
  
  
• Silver Daggers on Myspace
  Myspace
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• Silver Daggers with !!!
  !!!
  !!! is a dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento, California, in 1996. Members of !!! came from other local bands such as The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers...
  
   in OC Weekly
  OC Weekly
  OC Weekly, a sister publication of both LA Weekly and The Village Voice, is a free, left-wing weekly paper distributed in Orange County, California and also in Long Beach....
  
   Music
• Split 7" Review in Village Voice