New Wet Kojak

New York's arty, jazz-inflected rock five-piece New Wet Kojak formed in 1995, when <a href="spotify:artist:33HLOae9rhJfw6Mh0e8g5r">Girls Against Boys</a> members Scott McCloud and <a href="spotify:artist:34gPHGwf8jTA2gqoskjZPE">Johnny Temple</a> recruited guitarist/engineer Geoff Turner (formerly of Grey Matter), drummer Nick Pelleciotto (a former member of <a href="spotify:artist:45spCVDSFkBSxj3FFPTy5c">Edsel</a>), and saxophonist Charles Bennington, all of whom hailed from <a href="spotify:artist:33HLOae9rhJfw6Mh0e8g5r">GVSB</a>'s hometown, Washington, D.C. That year the group released its self-titled debut album on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Touch+%26+Go+Records%22">Touch & Go Records</a>, and despite infrequent gigging and McCloud and <a href="spotify:artist:0iHb0mCbqZTYeb4y9Pirrd">Temple</a>'s commitment to <a href="spotify:artist:33HLOae9rhJfw6Mh0e8g5r">Girls Against Boys</a>, New Wet Kojak released their follow-up, Nasty International, in 1997. The group switched to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Beggars+Banquet%22">Beggars Banquet</a> for its third album, Do Things, which arrived in spring 2000. <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Beggars%22">Beggars</a> also released an EP in 2001 and another album in 2003, This Is the Glamorous. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi