The Mary Tyler Whores Announce Debut Album “As Filthy As We Wanna Be”

Florida’s The Mary Tyler Whores are finally set to cement their reputation with their debut album, As Filthy As We Wanna Be, that is due for release on October 9th via Cadiz Music. It’s a long and treacherous story that starts in the back alleys of South Florida in 1999 where three degenerates with too much attitude and not enough sense accidentally sparked a cult-level punk phenomenon. Front and centre was Frankie “Crime” Cassara, the band’s vocalist and ringleader, and certified public menace. Beside him, slinging riffs like Molotov cocktails, stood Doobie Tyler Whore, a six-string saboteur with a permanent snarl and a knack for turning any stage into a war zone. And behind the kit, pounding out the heartbeat of the apocalypse, was former Misfit, the late Joey Image. The Mary Tyler Whores shared stages with punk royalty and longtime friends: The Misfits, Iggy Pop, GBH, Murphy’s Law, The Casualties, The Bouncing Souls, US Bombs, and countless others.

The road stories get carved into the annals of madness, even Iggy Pop would stand hysterically amused from the side of the stage when a fan ripped off his prosthetic leg, with a The Mary Tyler Whores sticker on it, and hurled it at Frankie from the front row, who immediately began bashing Doobie over the head with it, creating a legendary moment of punk rock theatre. Fast-forward to 2023. After more than a decade running wild in California, Frankie decided it was time to dig up the corpse of The Mary Tyler Whores and shock it back to life. He rounded up his best offenders and the OG wrecking crew reported for duty. With the band back together, Frankie called his old buddy and childhood mentor, Greg Hetson (Circle Jerks / Bad Religion), to sign on, witness, and produce As Filthy As We Wanna Be at his own Hetson Sound Studios in Encino, CA. Earlier this year the band have unleashed the Hell On Wheels single, that was accompanied by an equally disorientating and bewildering video.

“Hell on Wheels” came out of this off-the-wall spark from my partner in crime, Doobie Tyler Whore our rhythm guitar player and co-founder of The Mary Tyler Whores. This guy would roll into practice and just scream this one line over and over: “My grandma drives a ’58.” That was it. No explanation, no structure just that wild-ass line. Turns out it was real. Doobie’s grandmother drove a ’58 Chevy beatnik lunatic, hot-rod savage, addicted to speed. Pure chaos energy. Completely unhinged in the best possible way. That DNA didn’t skip a beat, it went straight into Doobie, straight into this band. Full butterfly effect of noise, gasoline, and bad decisions. I took that one line and built “Hell on Wheels” around it. It became exactly what this band is loud, reckless and filthy. One of the hardest-hitting representations of The Mary Tyler Whores and yeah, a twisted love letter to Doobie’s grandma and everything she accidentally unleashed. The “Hell on Wheels” video? Forget it. Faust, our visual madman, caught it in a net and burned it alive. No polish, no pretending, just raw unfiltered live energy, fractured edits, insane mixed-media chaos, and explosive SFX. It feels like a train off the rails at 100 miles an hour with no brakes, full-throttle sensory overload.” (Frankie “Crime” Cassara)