The Trashwomen were formed in the early 90s by three women in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their name is a play on 1960s Minneapolis surf-weirdos the Trashmen. Californians doing surf rock is a no-shit, but not everyone plays/played it with such vigorous, garage-y trashy gloriousness. They're like a more surf-oriented Mummies in leopard print. Same time frame and area of the world.
Lust was a vinyl EP released in 1992; it contains four instrumental tracks. (Well, "Dragula" has vocals if you count the evil Dracula laughs and the girls' shrieks of B-horror terror.) Guitarist Elka Zolot rips. As far as I can tell, it's pretty difficult to obtain said EP, but you can download it in full here. Their LPs, The Trashwomen vs. Deep Space (1994) and Spend the Night With The Trashwomen (1996) followed. Avoid if you can't stand awful sound quality; proceed if you just want to go nuts to some wild rock 'n' roll. Listen to "Nightmare at the Drag" (off Spend the Night) below.
Record sleeve from here.
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