New York City: If you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere. The Lunachicks took that mentality to heart. Throughout the ’90s and into the ’00s, the legendary punk band’s hard-hitting rock-n-roll hooks, thick and gritty guitars, and heavy, pounding beats attracted a rabid fan base that stretched from the turbulent bowels of the Bowery all the way to the dizzying neon cavity of Tokyo. The moment NYC shat them out of high school in 1988, the Lunachicks were on a mission to loudly trounce planet Earth just like their idols The Ramones, Black Sabbath, Kiss, The Clash, Blondie, and Alice Cooper. As teenagers, the Lunachicks made a name for themselves in hallowed local clubs like CBGB and The Limelight, where they caught the attention of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. In 1990, London-based record label Blast First released the Lunachicks’ debut album, Babysitters on Acid, furnished with the perverted love song “Makin’ It With Other Species” and the paean to ’70s sitcom heroine “Jan Brady.” Reveling in their love of movies by Russ Meyer and John Waters, on stage the Lunachicks were a ferocious burst of bizarre costumes, garish makeup, and theatric props along with pure sonic mastery. With every album that followed, the Lunachicks delighted most in taking a technicolor dump on propriety, morality, and the patriarchy.