[1] Composed of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley,[2] Ron Asheton (The Stooges),[3] Don Fleming (Gumball),[2] bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen),[2] Jim Dunbar,[4] and Mark Arm (Mudhoney)[2] the band provided the music for Ewan McGregor's Curt Wild character in the film Velvet Goldmine.
[7] In April 2020, the band released an album with proceeds going to The Ron Asheton Foundation.
[8] The album featured ten tracks, with lead vocals handled by Arm, Moore, Watt and Asheton on different songs.
[9] The recording featured the lineup of Asheton, Moore, Watt, Shelley, Arm on vocals and Sabir Mateen on tenor saxophone.
Between June and September 2020 the band released six tracks recorded during a three-hour improv session in 1997 featuring a line-up of Asheton, Lennon, Moore, Shelley and Watt.