mydolls music since 1978
Represented by C.I.A. Records, mydolls appeared in the Criterion Collection road film PARIS, TEXAS (1984) directed by Wim Wenders and written by Sam Shepherd. With 45 years of contemporary arts and music history, mydolls are Trish Herrera, Linda Younger, Dianna Ray, and George Reyes.
CIA Records Releases New Tribute Video for “As Strange As Mine” (1983) – Dedicated to the memory of Kelly Younger, guitarist for Really Red
Mydolls Donates Archive to UH Special Collections
Classic Mydolls at the Island, 1981.
Photo courtesy of the Ben DeSoto Photography Archive at UH Special Collections
“Their sound, an explosive mix of Au Pairs, the Slits, X-Ray Spex and early Siouxsie and the Banshees influences, was layered with something else – something hilarious but deadly serious, cutting yet colored by a love and self-respect that could only spring from the familial, from friendship bonds so tight each person finishes the other’s sentences. A ‘something else’ springing from the obstinacy required to thrive in mid-80’s Houston, in all of its swampy, concrete, billboard grazed, freeway-strangled, police-brutality tainted glory.” – Heather Johnson in MRR #410, July 2017
“On their new track ‘Easter,’ the four piece builds on their already intense sound while adding plenty of fire lyrically as if they’re making music in their twenties. When bands have been together long enough to be called legends, it’s hard to believe that they could find anything to inspire new music anymore. With Mydolls, it’s almost like the fires have never stopped burning creatively.” – David Garrick, Houston Press