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  • Her 1999 piece on famously awful girl group The Shaggs is one of my all time faves, a beautifully observed look at misplaced hopes and dreams.

    Weekly Mishmash: December 28-January 3 : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • The Shaggs were a trio of dowdy sisters—Helen, Dot and Betty Wiggin, from the town of Freemont, N.H.—who in the late 1960s were yanked out of high school by their disgruntled working-class father, Austin Wiggin, and forced to form a band.

    Sour Notes On Stage Andy Beta 2011

  • The Shaggs were a trio of dowdy sisters—Helen, Dot and Betty Wiggin, from the town of Freemont, N.H.—who in the late 1960s were yanked out of high school by their disgruntled working-class father, Austin Wiggin, and forced to form a band.

    Sour Notes On Stage Andy Beta 2011

  • We told them we were looking for the worst music imaginable, and before long we left the store with an LP called "Philosophy of the World" by a band we had never heard of called the Shaggs.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • We told them we were looking for the worst music imaginable, and before long we left the store with an LP called "Philosophy of the World" by a band we had never heard of called the Shaggs.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • We told them we were looking for the worst music imaginable, and before long we left the store with an LP called "Philosophy of the World" by a band we had never heard of called the Shaggs.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • We told them we were looking for the worst music imaginable, and before long we left the store with an LP called "Philosophy of the World" by a band we had never heard of called the Shaggs.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • My first experience with Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica provides a kind of Shaggs counterexample.

    All articles at Blogcritics 2009

  • "There was something really condescending about an appreciation of the Shaggs from the beginning," said music critic Chuck Eddy.

    Sour Notes On Stage Andy Beta 2011

  • As Ms. Gregory worked on the script, she found a historical antecedent to the Shaggs' story: the Brontë sisters: "They were another trio of young women in a remote, bleak landscape working on something heretofore unheard of under the watchful eye of an overbearing dad."

    Sour Notes On Stage Andy Beta 2011

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