Damaged Bug

When he is not busy creating a ruckus with his regular outfit Osees, singer-songwriter, and one of the prominent figures in the Southern California punk and garage scene, John Dwyer spends his time under the Damaged Bug moniker, creating a kind of music that is a tad more on the experimental side, driven by plenty of synths and electronic textures. This is where he lets his hair down, so to speak, and produces a more challenging and dissonant sound. There is a scrappy and funky quality to his work, which typically stretches between two main themes: '70s psychedelia with a krautrock edge, and the type of studio experimentation Brian Eno produced in his pop albums in the same decade. Dwyer brings the same kind of intense creativity into his work as Damaged Bug as he has been putting into creating the Osees catalog for decades.