Nomy Lamm

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Nomy Lamm is an accordion-wielding American singer/songwriter/activist, and a self-described “fat-ass bad-ass Jew dyke amputee.”

Nomy Lamm first garnered attention with her zine, I'm So Fucking Beautiful. She had grown up in musical theater, and found her way to the queer punk scene in Olympia, WA, where she began to play with various musicians. Her solo debut Anthem was released in 1999 (Talent Show had sought to compile the work of the various bands she’d fronted; Lamm decided to re-record the music as a solo project). A punk rock disc that kept her musical theater roots in evidence, Anthem coupled revolutionary-minded themes with her soulful vocals (which have regularly been compared to Alison Moyet’s). Later that year she released The Transfused, a soundtrack to the anti-corporate rock musical that she created with The Need. She also toured as part of Doctor Frockrocket’s Vivifying Reanimatronic Menagerie and Medicine Show.

Effigy, released by Yoyo Recordings, was a dramatic musical departure for Lamm, with slick electronica replacing the sparse, PJ Harvey-esque production of its predecessors. “What I'm doing now is total disco-pop,” she said at the time, “but it’s still punk because it was created through punk channels using punk ethics.” Thematically, Effigy continued Lamm’s push for a revolution, but this time the focus was more on an internal rather than external one.

Her zines and theatrical college lectures on fat oppression (the latter of which finds her dressed in fairy wings and waving a magic wand) garnered her a Ms. Magazine “Woman Of The Year” award. She’s also toured as part of the spoken word outfit, Sister Spit, and is a regular columnist for Punk Planet magazine.

Most recently, Lamm formed the band Tricrotic with Marcus Rogers and Erin Daly. They have recorded one EP.

1 Discography
- 1.1 Albums
- 1.2 Singles
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Effigy, Yoyo Recordings, 2003
The Transfused, (with The Need), Yoyo Recordings, 2000
Anthem, Talent Show, 1999

[edit] Singles

KaraNEEDoke, double 7" collaboration with Nomy Lamm, Slim Moon, Audrey Marrs, Donna Dresch, Tamala Poljak (formerly of Longstocking) and Tracy Sawyer (formerly of Heavens to Betsy), music by The Need; Kill Rock Stars