Shannon Selberg

Shannon Selberg
Born	Minneapolis
Nationality	United States of America
Genres	noise rock
Instruments	horn · guitar · voice

Shannon Selberg
Birth name	Shannon Scott Selberg
Born	(1960-06-03) June 3, 1960 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Genres	Noise rock, punk blues
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals, bugle, keyboards
Years active	1987–present
Labels	Amphetamine Reptile, Rubric, Treehouse

Shannon Scott Selberg (born June 3, 1960) is a noise/punk rock musician known for his unusual antics on stage. Formerly the frontman for the Minneapolis-based group The Cows, Selberg provided lead vocals, trumpet, bugle and hardcore guitar. After the dissolution of The Cows in 1998, Selberg, described by Pitchfork Media as "the Crispin Glover of the noise rock community", moved on to New York City noise-rock band, The Heroine Sheiks,

Performance persona

In its biography of Cows, Allmusic credits Selberg's "squealing, shrieking, and general lunacy" as "the bizarre, often engaging, focus" of the band. His onstage behavior has included performing naked except for strategically placed shaving cream, performing with mousetraps "dangling from his ears", wearing a business suit with stuffed animals at the crotch and a skin suit made from a love doll. Selberg's general presentation with Cows was described as a mingling of "requisite menace and a disarmingly arch, lowbrow wit..., leveling both barrels at the oozing backalley/trailerpark underbelly of life."