- New Bomb Turks
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New Bomb Turks Origin Columbus, Ohio, USA Genres Punk rock, garage punk, hardcore punk Years active 1990–present Labels Crypt, Gearhead, Epitaph, Fat Wreck Chords Website www.newbombturks.com Members Jim Weber
Eric Davidson
Sam Brown
Matt ReberPast members Bill Randt The New Bomb Turks are an American punk rock band formed at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 1990. The founding members are Jim Weber, Eric Davidson, Bill Randt, and Matt Reber. Sam Brown replaced Bill Randt on drums in 1999. Early on their inspiration came from the Devil Dogs, Lazy Cowgirls, Union Carbide Productions, Didjits, and the Fluid.[citation needed] Music magazine Alternative Press has described their musical style, saying, "Not only have both prole-threat punk bashery and destructo-rock found fresh voices, they've been melded into a seamless new terror all its own."[1] The New Bomb Turks have released ten full-length LPs, two EPs, and over twenty singles, some of which contain songs not available elsewhere. Their early recordings appear on the Datapanik, Sympathy For The Record Industry, Get Hip and Bag of Hammers labels. Crypt Records signed the band and released !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!, Information Highway Revisited, and Pissing Out The Poison. Then Epitaph Records signed them and released LPs Scared Straight, At Rope's End and Nightmare Scenario. Gearhead Records released their next album, The Night Before the Day the Earth Stood Still. The band also released three b-side and outtakes compilations: Pissing Out the Poison, The Big Combo, and Switchblade Tongues & Butterknife Brains.
As of 2005, the New Bomb Turks have slowed down their touring and recording in order to pursue other interests. Guitarist Jim Weber, for example, is now a 10th and 11th grade English teacher at Hilliard Davidson High School. The band's name refers to the main character (Newbaum Turk) in the 1980 film "The Hollywood Knights", played by Robert Wuhl.
Contents
We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001
In 2010, Eric Davidson wrote We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001, a paperback chronicling the underground punk movement between 1988 and 2001. Gunk Punk is a term used to describe an era of punk that based itself on lo-fi recordings, and were often garage punk or blues punk.
Discography
LP's
- !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! (1993)
- Information Highway Revisited (1994)
- Pissing Out the Poison: Singles & Other Swill... (1995)
- Scared Straight (1996)
- At Rope's End (1998)
- Nightmare Scenario (2000)
- The Big Combo (2001)
- The Night Before the Day the Earth Stood Still (2002)
- Switchblade Tongues & Butterknife Brains (2003)
Singles
- Trying To Get By b/w Last Lost Fight
- Beruhren Meiner Affe (EP)
- Drunk On Cock (EP)
- Stick It Out
Compilations
- The Gearhead Records Thingmaker
- Motorcycle Mania 3 (Soundtrack)
- Smash Up Derby
- How We Rock
- A Fistful Of Rock N Roll Volume 9
- Punk Rock Jukebox
- The Las Vegas Shakedown
- Punk-O-Rama 3
- Punk-O-Rama 4: Straight Outta The Pit
- Punk-O-Rama 5
- Cheapo Crypt Sampler 1997
- Punk-O-Rama 2
- Happy Birthday, Baby Jesus
- Punk Rock Jukebox
- 500 Miles To Glory
- Cheapo Crypt Sampler
- Shave The Baby: Datapanik's
- Glory Daze (Soundtrack)
- Attack From The Planet Of The Devil Dogs (Head Dip)
References
External links
- Official New Bomb Turks website
- All Music entry on the New Bomb Turks
- VH1 entry on the New Bomb Turks
- Suburban Voice Interview - New Bomb Turks interview from 1994
Categories:- American punk rock groups
- Earache Records artists
- Epitaph Records artists
- Garage punk groups
- Musical groups from Ohio
- Musical groups from Columbus, Ohio
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