Edward Stapleton Kali's Thug's Apparel. (Kalifornia avant-garde) No clothing are made on the backs of the dead.Who is Nervous Gender?

“The thorn in the side of the L.A. music scene. One of L.A.’s leading proponents of a genre aptly dubbed the Gloom Boom .” - Kristina McKenna - Los Angeles Times

“Electronic baby combo for the most adventurous amongst you. Everyone sings in turn and everyone dabbles with knobs and switches and toy machinery.” - Slash magazine

“It’s not that I ever considered Nervous Gender outstanding musicians, it’s just that whenever I see Nervous Gender I expect an outstanding performance.” - Brad Lapin – Damage magazine

“I now see people attempting things that Nervous Gender has been exploiting for years.” - In Touch magazine

“Good noise…My favorite American band” - Richard Meltzer – Author, Critic, DJ- KPFK

Nervous Gender is indeed harsh for those ears that are accustomed to frivolous tunes and meaningless concepts. Nervous Gender’s voice is an often crass and sometimes overpowering experience. There is substance, however, in the words.

A punk band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1978 by Gerardo Velasquez, Edward Stapleton, Michael Ochoa and Phranc, Nervous Gender's purpose was to create totally synthetic punk music or, to use their own facetious language, to insert a backbone into electronic music’s much neglected testicles.

Shortly after their formation, Nervous Gender rejected The Guitar and everything it stood for, and turned their focus to synthesizers and electronic sound techniques, making them, along with The Screamers, the original innovators of what is today called "Synthpunk". NG always referred to themselves as techno-punks and had ties to the industrial and No-wave music styles.

Nervous Gender are often cited as an early influence in the queercore movement. Their lyrics were confrontational, covering such subjects as sex, religious guilt, and homosexuality that exuded menace. Their frequent use of obscene material and audience-provoking behavior guaranteed them no commercial acceptance.

Nervous Gender recorded two records -- 4 tracks for the compilation Live At Target, a seminal punk / industrial recording released as both an LP and video in 1980, and in 1981 they released their LP Music from Hell in which they split the album between the straightforward punk songs and the “Beelzebub Youth” side which featured their more experimental atonal works. Beelz