Trotsky Icepick is an American

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band, their name referring to

Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...

and his assassination. From 1983 through 1994 the band released six albums, all on

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. Trotsky Icepick continues to release records into the 2020s on Poison Summer Records. Members have included

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from LA indie groups,

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(100 Flowers),

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, Cockeyed Ghost and

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.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , pp. 175-6

Discography

*''Whispering Glades / In Exile'' (45) *''Poison Summer'' (Danny & the Doorknobs) (1983), Old Scratch - reissued in 1989 as ''Trotsky Icepick Presents: Danny And The Doorknobs'' *''Poison Summer'' (Trotsky Icepick) (1986), SST *''Baby'' (1988), SST *''El Kabong'' (1989), SST *'' The Ultraviolet Catastrophe'' (1991), SST *''Carpetbomb the Riff'' (1993), SST *''Hot Pop Hello'' (1994), SST *''World War X - single'' (2018), Poison Summer Records *''I Haunted Myself'' (2019), Poison Summer Records *''Acrylic - ep'' (2020), Poison Summer Records

References

External links

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