Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Shaggs — an all-girl band featuring the three suburban Wiggin sisters from Fremont, NH — were always an acquired taste. Formed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But "bad" is in the eye of the beholder. Musicians ranging from Frank Zappa to Kurt Cobain fell head over heels for The Shaggs' ...

How do you prevent a musical about a trio of musically-challenged sisters who sing awful songs from being musically-challenged itself? That’s the tightrope tread by creators Joy Gregory, Gunnar Madsen ...

EPPING, N.H. (AP) — Not many rock groups get discovered years after they disband. Even fewer stage comebacks spread over more than three decades. Yet that’s the story of The Shaggs, which started as ...

In 1969, the small New Hampshire town of Fremont still felt like the 1950s. Most of the families went to church and the ham-and-bean suppers. Some of the boys were letting their hair grow, but not ...

NEW YORK (AP) — "My girls are gonna play in a band!" declares Austin Wiggin in "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World." Aw. Isn't it nice, with Father's Day coming and all, to hear a dad dream big for ...

Casting has been completed on yet another milestone for Catskill's adventurous Bridge Street Theatre - its first full-scale summer musical! But, true to form, it's a pretty off-beat one: Joy Gregory ...

The Shaggs barely registered a footnote in rock 'n' roll history books until the sister act's lone 1969 recording started earning holy grail status from outsider-music aficionados during the last two ...

THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD, Lookingglass Theatre Company. Pure nonfiction is a mythical beast: the carefullest journalist still colors the tale, and in entertainment “based on” real events, ...

Sometime in 1980, a University of Southern California film student named Ken Kwapis walked into a Los Angeles record store. As he was flipping through the bins, an album caught his eye. Three ...