Smoke Free Home “Reburns” 2025. Tsurumi Records, limited edition (?) colored vinyl 7″ single. Smoke Free Home, from Oshkosh, are one of my favorite current young punk bands from Wisconsin. We caught their set at a Battle of the Bands this past weekend at Falcon Bowl in Riverwest (Milwaukee). I don’t know if they won (they absolutely should have) but we definitely voted for them. Fast, clever, all low end (the lineup is Jesse on vocals, Kevin on bass, Alex on drums), young and FUN, their performance was raucously captivating. A huge love-filled pit of kids dancing their asses off. Aside from two or three other couples (probably parents or >shudder< grandparents of some of the other local bands), we were hands-down some of the oldest people there. No matter, everyone was cool aka they all ignored us. I’m fairly certain they played  both “Fast Hands” and possibly the flipside “Broken Toe.” Their Bandcamp page says about the single “Two fan-favorite tracks from our first release re-recorded…” the tracks appear on their 2021 self-titled EP, though “Fast Hands” is titled “Blue Hands” on the earlier release. Both versions are great!

I wasn’t able to find any live videos of either song so here’s another performance of one my favorite of theirs: