R.B. Korbet | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Rebecca Korbet |
| Born | Manhattan,New York City,USA |
| Genres | Punk rock,hardcore punk,industrial,garage rock,noise rock,art rock,experimental |
| Instrument(s) | Bass guitar,drums,guitar,percussion,vocals |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Labels | Shimmy Disc |
| Member of | Highly Effective People, Silk Cut,King Missile (Dog Fly Religion), |
| Formerly of | Big Stick,Bush Tetras, The Carvels NYC,Even Worse,Missing Foundation,Pussy Galore, TheWharton Tiers Ensemble |
R.B. Korbet (bornRebecca Bronwyn Korbet) is anAmericanmusician. She is perhaps most well-known for her contributingdrumming andvocals to the first incarnation ofart rockbandKing Missile, and was a member ofBush Tetras, having joined them onbass guitar in2020.
After first joiningEven Worse as lead vocalist in 1981, Korbet would go on to playguitar orbass and sing in bands such as Chop Shop, Hit by a Truck,Missing Foundation,Pussy Galore,Big Stick, Navigator, Madgodz, Bubba Zanetti, Sloth, Hellvis, the Floyds of Flatbush, TheWharton Tiers Ensemble, Judas Livingston Seagull, Verona Downs, and Um.[1]
From2019 to 2022, she played bass and sang backups with the Carvels NYC. In the duo Silk Cut, with King Missile'sJohn S. Hall, she plays all instruments (exceptukulele) andproduces their recordings.[2]
In 2020, Korbet contributed the track "The Power Broker" to Marc Sloan'scompilation projectReel to Real Vol. 1.[3] She also joined Bush Tetras the same year, brought in by the late Dee Pop. Several months after Pop's death in October 2021, she rallied forSonic Youth drummerSteve Shelley to join the band, and subsequently appeared on their2023 albumThey Live in My Head.[4] In 2021, Korbet started another project, a trio called Highly Effective People, in which she writes all of the music, plays bass and sings, as well as creates their videos and other artwork.[5] In 2024 Korbet was interviewed by music historian Jesse Rifkin forWalk on the Wild Side NYC.[1]
Korbet was born inManhattan to two artist parents, but was raised by her grandparents, who moved her to thesuburbs ofDetroit in1972.[6] Upon returning to New York in1980, she became involved with thepunk andhardcorescenes and later joined (what would become) the most well-known lineup of Even Worse, which was documented on the compilation albumNew York Thrash.
After nearly two decades inNew York City, Korbet relocated toBerkeley,California in early1998, following the death of a close friend and fellow musician. Afterwards she spent three years in San Francisco, then LA, then Boston/Cambridge. After moving to theUK in 2003, she took a complete break from music in2008 to focus on academic pursuits in the field of politics and history, and has since completed aBA atUniversity of Westminster and aPhD through theInstitute of Contemporary British History atKing’s College London.[6]
| Artist | Release | Record Label | Release Year |
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| Even Worse | New York Thrash (compilation) | ROIR | 1982 |
| King Missile (Dog Fly Religion) | Fluting on the Hump | Shimmy Disc | 1987 |
| King Missile (Dog Fly Religion) | They | Shimmy Disc | 1988 |
| Hellvis | The Frog E.P. | Fat Bastard | 1994 |
| Wharton Tiers | Brighter than Life | Atavistic Records | 1996 |
| The Wharton Tiers Ensemble | Twilight of the Computer Age | Atavistic Records | 1999 |
| Even Worse | You've Ruined Everything (archival release) | Grand Theft Audio | 2002 |
| Bush Tetras | They Live in My Head | Wharf Cat Records | 2023 |
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