The Stranger vol 8 #49 http://www.thestranger.com pg 41 "We Are So Shtick"
by Lois Maffeo para 7..The Makers took an interesting road to shtick. Their origins as a Spokane garage rock band are barely visibl;e any more. Although garage music is one of the more typical shtick laden genres, The Makers of yore took a fairly orthodox approach to their retrosound, concentrating more on music than the stylization. But somewhere between "All Night Riot" and "Psychopathia Sexualis" the band went glam. Singer Michael maker began to sport furry collars and scarves, and the band began to take a more complicated approach to the basic trash sound of garage. Most garage bands would get pounded for adding such girlie, art rock touches, but somehow, the Estrus records crowd became convinced that it wasn't faggy, it was cool. The truth is that The Makers don't really need a frontman rubbing his crotch on the mic stand to make "(are you on the inside or the outside of your) pants" a great song."

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