The Black Snakes

Richard Kern provided stark visualization for the Lower East Side Scene of the late '80s as it were. Although he's not denying that past, his visual eye sure has, uh, matured but haven't we all...His site certainly has no mention of the Black Snakes though- his short-lived musical effort that did spurt out at least one album on the Radium 226.05 label in Sweden where Union Carbide Productions also resided. This excellent page (- where I swiped the above photo) has all the information you need. The sound? Well it's not far from Pussy Galore, Honeymoon Killers and Chrome Cranks....I believe "scuzz" was the operative term. I'm putting up links to two of their songs from the "End of Music As We Know It" comp. on ROIR and if you dig those, grab their whole album (rip thanks to Grunnen rocks) from Rapidshare.
I just realized that Darin Lin Wood (Blacktop, Fireworks, '68 Comeback et. al.) was in the Black Snakes which is really funny because I was listening to Blacktop just the other day thinking how it may be my favorite Mick Collins band because of their dark, heavy sound.

The Black Snakes - I'm Cheap + Rear View Mirror

The Black Snakes - Crawl LP

Lydia and Emilio Cubeiro in "Fingered" by Richard Kern