People in Stores (aka PiS) was an American, Boston-based band, from the formative
punk/
new wave era of the early 1980s. Playing with
Mission of Burma, Wild Stares, Vacuumheads, CCCP-TV, V; and
The Neats, PiS performed its own unique brand of original post-punk pop music in storied clubs around Boston such as the Underground,
The Rat, Storyville, and
The Channel
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. Referred to as "the clipboard crowd" by Dan Salzman of the Maps, Art Yard and Christmas fame, PiS had a uniquely strange and intellectual approach to the crafting of a pop song. The band recorded a single, an EP and contributed to the
Propeller Records
Propeller Records was an independent record label formed in Auckland, New Zealand, by Simon Grigg in 1980.
1980-81
In the years prior to 1980 the New Zealand contemporary recording industry was largely moribund. The major record labels were eith ...
compilation tape during its recording days. The band was started in 1979 and disbanded in 1983. Band members Margery Meadow and Karen Gickas, along with
Thalia Zedek
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and Lori Green, went on to form the well-regarded, all-woman band Dangerous Birds, while David Drucker and Seven Coursen, along with Ramona Herboldsheimer (Wild Stares) and Andrew Joslin (Noise Pencil), formed the all-instrumental band the Post-Moderns.
Band members
*Ken Travers: Guitar/Vocals
*Margery Meadow: Bass/Vocals
*Karen Gickas: Drums/Vocals
*Seven Coursen: Sax/Percussion
*David Drucker: Guitar/Vocals
*Fran Miller: Bass/Attitude
Recordings
*"Metaphor" / "White Funk" (
Propeller Records
Propeller Records was an independent record label formed in Auckland, New Zealand, by Simon Grigg in 1980.
1980-81
In the years prior to 1980 the New Zealand contemporary recording industry was largely moribund. The major record labels were eith ...
Single, 1981)
*"Factory" (
Propeller Product EP w/
The Neats, CCCPTV, The Wild Stares, 1981)
*''Cat and Mouse / Cheap Detective'' (
Propeller Product compilation tape, 1982)
See also
*
List of record labels
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External links
Robert Christgau Article - Propeller EP ReviewArticle from The Noise - Propeller Compilation TapeDownloadable MP3s of PiS Recordings
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American new wave musical groups
Punk rock groups from Massachusetts
Musical groups from Boston