Ugly Feuds

“If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?” In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the “ugly woman,” whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century.

Motel California is the third and most recent studio album by rock band Ugly Kid Joe. Released in 1996, it was their last album before they disbanded in 1997 and reformed in 2010. It received lukewarm reviews and poor sales.

Stairway to Hell is an EP by the American rock band Ugly Kid Joe. This is their first studio recording since 1996's Motel California, and their first EP since 1991's As Ugly as They Wanna Be.

Mothers attempt to exist in two places at once - both singular and collaborative, sprawling and concise, present and distant. Kristine Leschper, songwriter and founding member of the project, explains that it is in the space between opposites that she finds herself.