Gordon Gano and his band the Violent Femmes helped define post-punk's nerdy cool wile crafting himself into one of rock's finest singer/songwriters. For the first time in seven years, he is emerging again to offer his bittersweet tunes to a whole new generation of fans. Gordon Gano & The Ryans releasing Under the Sun, a collaboration between Gano and Brendan & Billy Ryan, to be released September 15th 2009.

In 1983, Gordon Gano and his band the Violent Femmes released their self-titled debut, still believed to be by many critics one of the best rock albums of our time. Described as, “The Grandfathers of Folk-Punk…rock's dadaist improvisers…the sonic personification of anxiety…blues cubists,” and “…spokesmen for misfits,” the band would go on to define 80s teen angst and be the unlikely poster children for the still nascent alternative music movement, making it clear there was as yet untapped powerful dimension of artists and consumers lurking beneath the current pop mainstream of the day. Violent Femmes is famously the first album to ever gain platinum status without ever charting on the Billboard Top 100. To date, the album has sold nearly two million copies [*Note: this is since the advent of Soundscan in 1992 and therefore missing nearly a decade of sales].