Biography

Austin, Texas based the Hickoids are a long running act, now in their 36th year. Originally conceived as hardcore punk meets hardcore country their modern sound is something more along the lines of Iggy and the Stooges, Rod Stewart and The Faces, Alice Cooper and Waylon Jennings all getting tangled up in an alley fight. Since reforming in 2006, the Hickoids have played over 500 shows in 20+ US states and Canada, including a tour of Alaska, and played 9 Western European countries over 4 tours. The Hickoids were inducted to the Austin Music Hall of Fame in 2014. The Hickoids have played with the Flaming Lips, The Flamin' Groovies, Lucinda Williams, Old 97's, Nashville Pussy, Nine Inch Nails, Roky Erickson, Black Flag and many, many others. Their latest album 'All The World's A Dressing Room: Live in L.A. 08.24.2018' released August 2019 in digital and physical formats (double LP, CD). It's 75+ minutes of pure raunch'n'roll recorded at Cafe NELA in Los Angeles in the summer of 2018. They have since released a collection of covers with Frontier Dan 'Six Miles from the Sun...Studio' as a 10" Lathe -Cut and Bandcamp exclusive as well as being included on the double LP tribute to legendary Houston punk/hardcore band Really Red 'Teaching You The Fear...Again'