Before they morphed into sampler-toting, vaguely psychedelic dream-punks, No Age's Dean Spunt and Randy Randall were plain-old punks, bashing out noisy, art-damaged songs in Wives. A trio, rounded out by drummer Jeremy Villalobos and, later, Roy Tatum, Wives emphasized passion over precision. The band took its basic inspiration from 1980s hardcore bands like Void, but amped up the freak-out factor with explosive bursts of noise and out-crowd abstraction. Formed in 2001, they delivered a handful of 7" singles and the LP before Spunt and Randall laid the name to rest. You can still catch a clip of their final gig, performed as a duo, on the 2006 documentary .