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The Nuclears “The Nuclears”

sfilzen — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:53:46 +0000

The Nuclears “The Nuclears” 2011. MegaPlatinum Records. We caught Brooklyn, NY-based The Nuclears this past weekend at our annual neighborhood street party, Bay View Bash and the band was the perfect choice for a gorgeous late-summer afternoon party on the RushMor Records stage. The Nuclears epitomize what good-time rock-n-roll should always be: non-stop pounding danceable beats, loud guitars, tons of stage posturing and lyrics that generally make you want to get down and party. (For example, from The Nuclears: “Get Up!” has the chorus “Oh yeah! Here’s your favorite song and if you know the words, baby, Why dontcha sing along” and “Fast Cars & Loud Guitars” – “I got American muscle, got American speed. I got American rhythm and American lead”). The Nuclears channeled the spirit of The Ramones, KISS and New York Dolls – their stated influences are the Hellacopters, Blue Oyster Cult, Radio Birdman, Judas Priest, the Beatles, Turbonegro and MC5 – with down-and dirty rock. Their line-up has changed a bit since The Nuclears, their first full-length album, with the addition of Briana Layon on vocals (she is a fiercely fantastic front-woman) and a change of drummers.

Despite the lack of Briana on the album, it’s still a great listen. My top tracks, besides the party anthem “Get Up!” are “Pay Yer Dues,” the opening track, an excellent ass-shaker, the punk’d “Get Me Outta Here,” the guitar solo on “Eclipso” and closing track which kinda sums up the band’s philosophy “Rock & Roll Riot.”

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Zero Boys “Vicious Circle”

sfilzen — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:47:01 +0000

Zero Boys “Vicious Circle” 1982/1987 reissue on Toxic Shock Records. The photo of the band is from this date, September 13th, three years ago when Zero Boys played our neighborhood’s giant street party, Bay View Bash. Zero Boys headlined Rush Mor Record’s stage, playing many of the classic 80′s punk tracks from their debut LP Vicious Circle, originally released on Nimrod Records, and noted that after the last time they played Milwaukee “we probably hung out in your mom’s basement, no, probably your grandma’s basement.” Zero Boys have always been punk-popular in Wisconsin, likely we have an affinity toward a Midwestern band, though the Midwestern location was a contributing factor to Zero Boys’ short-lived fist iteration (Allmusic notes “Even though the record [Vicious Circle] was to garner critical acclaim and turn the band into one of the legends of early-‘80s hardcore, the band was to fold a year later, citing being ‘landlocked’ in Indianapolis in comparison to the larger national scene.)

Vicious Circle is still one of my favorite early 80′s punk records, it is tight and smart, its punchy, melodic and Germs-esque tracks (singer Paul Mahern told producer/engineer John Helms he wanted his band’s debut LP to “sound like the Germs’ GI”) remain classic 35 years later. Highlights of the record – and the show three years ago – are the blazing fast “Amphetamine Addiction,” the mosh-pit perfect “You Can Touch Me,” and the double punch of anthem-worthy tracks “Livin’ in the 80′s” and “Civilizations Dying.” Here is a link to “Civilizations Dying” at the Bay View Bash in 2014 – some of my friends are front-and-center, air-punching, head-banging and singing along (I’m in the crowd somewhere, but too short to show up on film).

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The Pukes “Murder”

sfilzen — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:31:41 +0000

The Pukes “Murder” b/w “Execution” 2016. Tire Fire Records. This past weekend was our neighborhood party, Bay View Bash. Free music on multiple stages, local vendors and businesses promoting their wares (I worked the booth for the yoga studio that I teach at for a couple of hours), good cheap beer and food trucks.

Local Milwaukee boys, The Pukes, hit the Rush Mor Records stage at 3:00, after the Mercurys finished their awesome set (and I made enough room on my phone to record their entire performance of “New York”). The band’s name suggests punk, and they kind of are, but in the irreverent and snotty definition of punk, not the hardcore scream-sing thrash guitar meaning. They describe themselves as “boogie woogie rock-n-roll,” also true, who enjoy “dancing around in our underwear, using hairbrushes as microphones as we sing Shagri-La’s tunes.”

“Murder” is a happy, bouncy surf punk song with just enough edge to justify the song’s title. “Execution” has a rolling beat, early 60′s flavor sweet as sugar along with the melodic growl of “I want my execution to go down in history.” The description of the 45 from the band’s website is “Something every nose-picking loser should have. With the hole just the way you like em’, BIG. This garbage comes wrapped in artwork by Eric Von Munz!”

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