The Icicles
The Icicles are an American indie pop band from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The band was founded in 2000 by singer/ songwriter/ guitarist Gretchen DeVault, keyboardist Joleen Rumsey and drummer Korrie Sue, who met when they were students at Grand Valley State University.
The group released a debut EP titled" Pure Sugar" in 2000.
The Icicles developed a reputation for wearing matching handmade stage outfits—a reputation that was referenced in the title of the group's 2005 debut LP" A Hundred Patterns".
By that time, Korrie Sue had been replaced on drums by Greg Krupp, and bassist Emily Krueger had joined the band.
This lineup was augmented by second guitarist Rebecca Rodriguez for the recording of 2007's" Arrivals and Departures", after which Krupp was replaced by Zane DeVault and Krueger was replaced by Aaron Ekins.
The group's 2012 release" Renegade Parade" took a melancholic turn, in part because of DeVault's struggle with postpartum depression.
This emotional, melancholy side to DeVault's songwriting led to the founding of the shoegaze/ dream pop group Voluptuous Panic with music journalist Brian J. Bowe in 2013.
Trevor Koehler
Trevor Koehler( 1935- 1975) was an American saxophonist.
He recorded with Gil Evans, The Insect Trust, Cornell Dupree, Lou Reed, Octopus.
Allan Houser wrote a jazz piece called" Running Wild With Trevor Koehler" that he recorded with his sextet.
Father of Glade Koehler and Seth Koehler.
Trevor Koehler committed suicide in 1975.
Insect Habitat
The Insect Habitat was a science payload intended for the International Space Station as part of the Space Station Biological Research Program( SSBRP).
The project was put on hold when Space Shuttle flights were interrupted after the destruction of Orbiter Columbia in February 2003.
The insect research element of the program was managed by the Canadian Space Agency, and the prime contractor for the Insect Habitat was Routes AstroEngineering, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Sam Mehran
Sam Mehran( August 17, 1985 – July 2018), also known as Sam Meringue, was an American- Australian musician, songwriter, and producer who co-founded the punk band Test Icicles and later formed the solo projects Matrix Metals and Outer Limits Recordings( OLR).
His solo work differed substantially from Test Icicles and was often produced in a lo- fi manner.
He received little critical notice in his lifetime, a" Dazed Digital" editor commented, however," Mehran possessed an incomparable talent that belied his relatively low public profile."
Caenocoris
Caenocoris is a genus of ground bugs in the insect family Lygaeidae.
HMS Gnat
Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS" Gnat" after the insect.
Insect Trust Gazette
The Insect Trust Gazette was a poetry journal published between 1964 and 1968 and was edited by Leonard Belasco and William Levy (Philadelphia, 1964–1968) who published such notable writers as William S. Burroughs.
Its name was a reference to a quotation from William S. Burroughs' novel "Naked Lunch".
A folk/jazz/blues group in the late 1960s, The Insect Trust, was named after this journal.
Robert Palmer (writer)
Robert Franklin Palmer Jr.( June 19, 1945 – November 20, 1997) was an American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer.
He is best known for his books, including" Deep Blues"; his music journalism for" The New York Times" and" Rolling Stone" magazine; his work producing blues recordings and the soundtrack of the film" Deep Blues"; and his clarinet playing in the 1960s band the Insect Trust.
A collection of his writings," Blues& Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer", edited by Anthony DeCurtis, was published by Simon& Schuster on November 10, 2009.
The Insect Trust
The Insect Trust was an American jazz- based rock band that formed in New York, United States, in 1967.
Voluptuous Panic
Voluptuous Panic is an American indie rock duo founded in 2013 by Gretchen DeVault, who is the primary singer and songwriter in the prominent indie-pop group The Icicles, and music journalist/author Brian J. Bowe.
The duo’s music has been described as hypnotic, textured and dreamy, mixing elements of shoegaze, dream pop and trip-hop.
Bowe and DeVault met in 2008 when he wrote a cover story chronicling the Icicles' success in the indie pop world -- including placements in international commercials for Target Corporation and Motorola -- for the alumni magazine of their shared alma mater, Grand Valley State University.
The pair stayed in touch and began collaborating.
In 2010, they recorded Bowe's score for the film "The Death of an Imam", which was nominated for a regional Emmy and won the Best of Festival Award at the Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts.
Following the release of the Icicles’ dark “Renegade Parade” album, DeVault found she needed an outlet for the more melancholic side of her writing—particularly after her struggle with postpartum depression.
During that period, Bowe was living in France and teaching at CELSA Paris.
He began sharing song ideas with the Michigan-based DeVault remotely.
This process of recording separately is one the group retains.
In an interview, Bowe called the remote recording process one of Voluptuous Panic’s defining characteristics.
“It’s a slow conversation, but it allows us to access deep emotional spaces that might not be possible in a room with a lot of other people,” he said.
The group adopted the name Voluptuous Panic in 2013, after Bowe came upon the phrase in the book "Frame Analysis" by sociologist Erving Goffman while conducting Ph.D. research.
Starting in 2014, Voluptuous Panic began releasing a series of singles.
The group earned notice as “one of the most stylish guitar bands to emerge on the shoegaze scene” and has drawn frequent comparisons to Slowdive, which the group cites as an influence.
In 2015, they collaborated with French electronic musician Human Koala on the song “Zyva,” which combined psychedelic guitars with modular synthesizers and drum machine beats.
In 2016, Voluptuous Panic released an EP titled “Une Sorte de Panique Voluptueuse,” which was a remixed collection of its earliest demos.
The group also appeared on the compilation “Big Day Coming,” a tribute to the band Yo La Tengo.
Voluptuous Panic rarely performs live.
For a few shows in 2013, the group was augmented by a rock rhythm section that included Icicles drummer Zane DeVault; in 2014, they performed with Icicles keyboardist Joleen Rumsey.

Question: Are The Icicles and The Insect Trust from the same country?
Answer: yes