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INC was founded by Frank Falestra — who responds to "Rat Bastard" and fronts the noise act, the Laundry Room Squelchers (or just the Squelchers). The band is an experiment in spontaneity: Bastard recruits pretty ladies from the audience to come up onstage to play with him. And with them — women who, ideally, have never touched a musical instrument before — he's almost perfectly executing the unspoken mission of noise music: to make sounds with a childlike playfulness. Together they all turn knobs on pedals, pick up amps and carry them over their heads. In some online videos, Bastard thrusts his amp into the chests of audience members — to make noise and, of course, to rouse up the crowd. Vice did a great interview with Rat Bastard about all this and more a few years back. Read it here.