The Shaggs went from high schoolers who didn't even want to play music to cult-status rock 'n' rollers over three decades.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Shaggs may be the unlikeliest group since the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll to have attracted a cult of hundreds of thousands or even ...

The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World (Playwrights Horizons) is a complexly unhappy musical about simple unhappy people. Its hook, making it both intriguing and unendurable, comes from its being a ...

Several decades ago, I used to get a big kick out of subjecting unsuspecting visitors to a record by an unusual musical trio called the Shaggs. This would usually happen after a few drinks or as a ...

Sometime in 1980, a University of Southern California film student named Ken Kwapis walked into a Los Angeles record store. As he was flipping through the bins, an album caught his eye. Three ...

EPPING, N.H. (AP) — Not many rock groups get discovered years after they disband. Even fewer stage comebacks spread over more than three decades. Yet that's the story of The Shaggs, which started as ...

EPPING, N.H. (AP) — Not many rock groups get discovered years after they disband. Even fewer stage comebacks spread over more than three decades. Yet that's the story of The Shaggs, which started as ...

The Shaggs‘ ramshackle 1969 debut album, the outsider art cult classic Philosophy of the World, is getting a vinyl reissue via the good people at Light in the Attic which will be out September 9. The ...

The Shaggs, three teenage sisters from New Hampshire, were a self-taught family “rock" band from the late 60's. They had creative energy and ambition, but knew little about music, could not tune their ...

The recent film that “We Are the Shaggs” most resembles in some ways is Edgar Wright’s “The Sparks Brothers,” partly because it’s about oddball siblings bound by unconventional musicality, but mostly ...