Vasoline Tuner

Weird and wonderful.A new Zappa/Beefheart on a Billy Squire level with Disney overtones.An Alice in wonderland weened on Devo and the B52's.I saw and heard myself his magic in front of a noisy underground audience.He conquered. - Kim Fowley

You know where you find mad genius? At the bottom of the fucking heap.they don't have a Be My Backing Band contests or agents or cover stories.So that's where I went to fin one:the bottom of the bin labeled"CD's for review"
And this is what I found.A one man industrial electro-circus-pop band called Vasoline Tuner that recalls Zappa,Capt.Beefheart and Mr.Bean in equal amounts.This guy Billy Tsounis is absolutely fucking nuts,for better or for worse,and the album he sent me,chocked full of songs like "Buttsweat is not Butter","Dracula was a Ding Dong" and "Clouds are Sexy" is addictively fucked up.
Do I want to see this lunatic live? Probably not.Do I want to give him the cover of L.A Alternative Music issue.No sir.But I sure as hell like singing along to "The Power Of Mariah Care's Pussy." - Los Angeles Alternative press

Neat with a deep bass groove,solid funky drum beat and droning guitars made me think of a bar scene somewhere in outer space. - Monkey Magnet

One of the most abtuse and underrated bands on the planet,the guys in Vasoline Tuner continue to do things their own peculiar way...creating challenging music with a decidedly hilarious sense of humor.Rock out with your cock out is easily the band's funniest album yet, featuring lyrics and song titles that are almost certain to make even the most jaded listeners howl out loud.The album begins with the furious tension of "Ugly girls fuck better" and then plunges into the overtlysilly "Staying at the Y".Before you can catch your breath,the band proceeds to present thre trippy,thoughtful, and eerie"Your mom is a man".Vasoline Tuner is always a strange and bewildering experience...but they've outdone themselves with this little sucker.In an age where creativity seems to be getting harder and harder to find, these guys prove that all it takes is a vivid and intense sense of imagination and the ability to play a few instruments. This band's crazed music is highly reminiscent of the super creative stuff that was released on Frank Zappas Bizzare Records label decades ago.Absolutely great and intense stuff.This band just keeps getting better as the years go by.Highly recommended - Baby Sue magazine

Sounds like an experiment on an old Atari computer with some weird rhymes.Electro porn music,disco for dirtbags.Maybe you should check these guys out,the fun factor on this cd is really high if you listen to just the lyrics. - Daredevil Magazine

One day I opened a promo parcel and I found inside a cd and a bio sheet with a giant picture of a long haired,sunglasses-wearing guy in his shirt,screaming and pretending to buttfuck a small panda teddybear.I suddenly thought"what the fuck is going on here dude?!!" and I put the cd into the player,I was struck by a crtazy mix of disco music,art rock,punk and demented songs.Vasoline Tuner,the name of this band,got me totally hooked wqith their infectious electro-punk-weird melodies.coming from hollywood,you'd better score this dude's music and dance. - Garbage Dump magazine