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VIAGRA Boys' Benjamin Valle is dead at 47.The band members said they "can't stop crying" over the passing of the guitarist and founding member.The ban

The album can, in fact, be treated as a concept album about the capacity for change that lies at the heart of even the most hard-boiled and unsympathetic of men, the kind we meet straight away on ‘Ain’t Nice’ and ‘Toad’. When ‘Into The Sun’ introduces us to a similar figure having a Damascene moment in which he realises the damage he has caused, we realise that we are, in fact, following a single flawed protagonist: an aging huckster who loves nothing but his ...

Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz (Album Review) Tuesday, 12 January 2021 Photo: Marcus Wilen With the future of global democracy in a perilous, yet darkly comic, place, it’s probably a good time for a new release from Stockholm-based satirical edgelords Viagra Boys. The post-punk quintet’s second album ‘Welfare Jazz’ is an energetic exercise in scuzz-rock fusion that demonstrates an attractive versatility, but also the limitations inherent in calling your band Viagra Boys. We open wi...

Viagra Boys CREDIT: Fredrik Bengtsson Viagra Boys have released another satirical cut from their brand new album ‘Welfare Jazz’, a rhetoric track entitled ‘Girls & Boys’. Dropping today (January 8) to coincide with the release of the Swedish band’s sophomore album, ‘Girls & Boys’ was produced by Matt Sweeney (Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Run The Jewels), Justin and Jeremiah Raisen (Sky Ferreira, Kim Gordon), and past collaborators Pelle Gunnerfeldt and Daniel “Fagge” Fagerström...

Sebastian Murphy of Viagra Boys and Amy Taylor. Credit: Getty/NME Viagra Boys have teamed up with Amy Taylor of Amyl And The Sniffers to cover ‘In Spite Of Ourselves’ by the late John Prine. Prine originally released ‘In Spite Of Ourselves’ in 1999 on his album of the same name. Just as Viagra Boys’ cover features the Australian singer Taylor, the original saw Prine link up with Iris DeMent. Where the original is characterised by its folky lilt, Viagra Boys’ rendit...