Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Shaggs — an all-girl band featuring the three suburban Wiggin sisters from Fremont, NH — were always an acquired taste. Formed ...

The Shaggs‘ ramshackle 1969 debut album, the outsider art cult classic Philosophy of the World, is getting a vinyl reissue via the good people at Light in the Attic which will be out September 9. The ...

EPPING, N.H. (AP) — Not many rock groups get discovered years after they disband. Even fewer stage comebacks spread over more than three decades. Yet that's the story of The Shaggs, which started as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By rights, The Shaggs shouldn’t even be a footnote in the history of rock, pop or jazz. Their first and only real album, ...

When Kurt Cobain listed his favorite albums of all-time, number five went to an obscure 1969 record by an all-sisters band from Fremont, N.H., called The Shaggs. Frank Zappa proclaimed the Shaggs to ...

Sometime in 1980, a University of Southern California film student named Ken Kwapis walked into a Los Angeles record store. As he was flipping through the bins, an album caught his eye. Three ...

The Shaggs went from high schoolers who didn't even want to play music to cult-status rock 'n' rollers over three decades.

Right now, I’m sitting outside a Starbucks in a big outdoor mall—don’t ask me why, it’s complicated. It’s a beautiful day, but all I can smell is asphalt, exhaust, and potted plants. At the table next ...

Pedal steel guitarist Bob Hoffnar has never been afraid of showcasing his instrument in realms disconnected from the C&W aesthetic, but it takes a brave soul to take on the catalog of the Shaggs. The ...

The recent film that “We Are the Shaggs” most resembles in some ways is Edgar Wright’s “The Sparks Brothers,” partly because it’s about oddball siblings bound by unconventional musicality, but mostly ...