Barkmarket was a rock music group formed in New York City in 1987. Personnel were singer/guitarist and main songwriter Dave Sardy, bass guitarist John Nolin and drummer "Rock Savage." Rock is a form of popular music from the mid 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Barkmarket's music was usually loud and aggressive, touching on many styles (most prominently including heavy metal, hardcore punk and noise rock), but not resting definitely in any one genre: critic Stewart Mason wrote that the band "can at times be frustratingly difficult to pin down, but their best work has a noisy, rattling power."[1] There were also odd touches that demonstrated an experimental edge: the eerie banjo and tape loops on "Radio" (from Gimmick), and the nearly delta blues accoustic slide guitar on Visible Cow (from L. Ron). Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1969 and 1974,[1] mixed blues and rock to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by... Hardcore punk is a subgenre of punk rock which originated in North America in the early 1980s. ... Lightning Bolt Live at the Southgate House 2005. ... Old 6-string zither banjo For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a stringed instrument of African American origin, early or original examples sometimes being called the gourd banjo. One African banjo predecessor is called the Akonting. ... Tape loops are loops of prerecorded magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns. ... Delta blues are named for the Mississippi Delta. ...

Sardy was the Captain Beefheart of heavy rock, his ragged, proto-screamo vocals usually offering bizarre lyrics that were at once evocative and absurd, and rarely without a menacing undercurrent: "I bought a handgun made out of glass/I cut a hole in the side of a wild ass" ("Visible Cow"); critic Ted Alvarez wrote, Don Van Vliet in a 1982 promotional photo. ... Screamo is a musical genre which evolved from emo, post-hardcore, more specifically hardcore emo in the early 1990s. ...

Sardy's distended poetry often has a dark humor about it; lines like "I opened all your mail" ("Feed Me") and "I got a game/it won't take long/we'll list all our beatings in a cursory rhyme" ("How are You") add a dash of laughter to the often humorless scowl across the face of hardcore music.[2]

In 1988, they released an independently-recorded demo tape, 1-800-GODHOUSE. They were signed to Triple X Records, who released the group's first two albums, Easy Listening and Vegas Throat; the later featured guest work from avant-jazz guitarist Marc Ribot. The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ... A rhyme is a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry. ... A child laughing A woman laughing. ... Marc Ribot (born 1954) is a Jewish American guitarist, composer and occasional singer from Newark, New Jersey. ...

Vegas Throat attracted the interest of Rick Rubin, and Barkmarket was one of the first groups signed to Rubin's American Recordings. Vegas was reissued by American, which then issued Gimmick and the Lardroom e.p. Frederick Jay Rubin (born 1963), is an American record producer best known for his work with rap and heavy metal, as well as the American series albums with Johnny Cash. ... American Recordings is a Los Angeles-based record label headed by record producer Rick Rubin. ...

L. Ron (1996) was the Barkmarket's final album. The Peacekeeper single was their final release before the group disbanded. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ...

Sardy has since become an in-demand producer and remixer for many heavy rock groups.