"The Beehive & The Barracudas story is a sordid and twisted tale. Born in the frigid bayou's of Blight, Michigan the Cudas busted outta the Upper Peninsula and brought their plastic sound to San Diego. These Sturgeon River Wetbacks are committed to performing strange dreams and weak sounds. Armed with confrontational attitude and 15 Watt amps, the Cudas take no prisoners. Whether it's a thumping Tupperware, Blues infected stomp of fuzzed out, staccato shards pf synchronized musical exclamations, Beehive and the Barracudas are making some of the finest sounds of their time. An esoteric, alienating, molestation for everyone."
Beehive & the Barracudas are a garage rock band formed back in 1998 in San Diego, California. The core members of the group are Dustin "Dirty" Milsap, Gar "Dner" Wood, and Tracy "Haze" Wooley, though they are frequently joined live and on record by other San Diego musicians such as members of Rocket from the Crypt. The band use pseudoynms in connection with the band and maintain a fictitious backstory in which they claim to be originally from "Blight, Michigan", describing their sound as "Blight blues" and "plastic soul". To date they've released six albums on minor labels but are reportedly on hiatus at the moment.
Beehive & the Barracudas formed when Kerry Davis relocated from Long Beach, California to San Diego following the breakup of her band the Red Aunts. There she met Gar "Dner" Wood, formerly of Fishwife and Tanner, and Dustin "Dirty" Milsap, formerly of Rice and longtime roadie for Rocket from the Crypt. The three formed Beehive & the Barracudas while playing together in Wood's studio. Davis would eventually leave the band though and be replaced by Tracy Wooley, formerly of Tourette's Lautrec and Tammy Faye, under the pseudonym Tracy Haze.
Having put out six albums the bands sound does vary. Their first couple of albums focusing on dance-ready gargage rock full of raw, driving, pounding rhythms and attitude-laced vocals. Think early of Jack White or The Gories but where the musicians swap lead vocals at will, sometimes even in the middle of the song, and guitar leads or organ breaks have a tendency to leap out of the woodwork. Most of the tracks even begin with a brief burst of the musicians jabbering before launching into the song proper.
From there Beehive and the Barracudas took a more subdued, smoldering and angular approach. Still no less raw though and certainly no less immediate, featuring a mix of live drums and old drum machines, dingy guitars and squidgy analog synths. But enough typing, check out Stuck on the Bus and Gospel Truth/Thirsty for Some Blood Below.
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