Hail are an American indie/ punk band with an avant-garde twist consisting of

Susanne Lewis Susanne Lewis is a German American musician, songwriter and artist. She is a solo-artist and a founder or collaborator of a number of bands and music projects. She has a band with Bob Drake called Corpses as Bedmates and Hail, and she also rel ...

(vocals, guitar, main composer and lyricist) and Bob Drake (bass). The band has also had guest appearances from Mike Johnson,

Dave Kerman David Kerman (born August 24, 1959), better known as Dave Kerman, is an American experimental rock drummer and composer, best known as the founder and member of the Los Angeles avant-rock group 5uu's. He is also a member of the Belgian progressi ...

, Chris Cutler and

Bill Gilonis Bill Gilonis (born 1958) is an English guitarist and composer. He co-founded the gritty experimental rock group The Work in 1980 with Tim Hodgkinson. The group was active intermittently until 1993, recording four albums and touring extensively ...

. Ear - Volume 14 - Page 52 1989 BOB DRAKE, Mike Johnson, and Susanne Lewis have recorded in any of their various bands, which include Cage of Reason, Corpses as Bed- mates, and Hail.

Discography

Albums include ''Gypsy Cat & Gypsy Bird'' (1988), ''Turn of the Screw'' (1990) and ''Kirk'' (1992). In 2006, Lewis and Drake released a new Hail album, ''Hello Debris'', on Recommended Records. Lewis also collaborated with

Azalia Snail Azalia Snail is an American avant-garde singer-songwriter and musician. She is a multi-instrumentalist active in neo-psychedelia, psychedelic folk and indie rock, played a prominent role in the 1990s lo-fi music scene, and was dubbed the "Que ...

for the Hail/Snail album ''How to Live with a Tiger'' (1993), and she guested alongside Cutler on Biota's album ''Object Holder'' (1995).

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*.. American indie rock groups American punk rock groups {{US-punk-band-stub