New Bomb Turks
High-velocity garage punk that hits like a caffeine overdose. Raw, witty, and relentlessly loud music for basement shows and high-speed drives.
High-velocity garage punk that hits like a caffeine overdose. Raw, witty, and relentlessly loud music for basement shows and high-speed drives.
Listening to New Bomb Turks feels like being strapped to the front of a speeding freight train fueled by cheap beer and pure adrenaline. Their sound is a frantic, hyper-kinetic explosion of garage rock grit and hardcore punk speed, characterized by Eric Davidson's rapid-fire, snarling vocals and Jim Weber's jagged, blues-inflected guitar work. It is music that refuses to sit still, vibrating with a nervous, blue-collar energy that is both intimidating and incredibly fun.
What sets them apart from the standard punk pack is a sharp, self-aware sense of humor and a sophisticated understanding of rock history. They don't just play fast; they play with a swing and a swagger that betrays their love for 60s garage soul and 70s proto-punk. The production is consistently raw and unpolished, capturing the claustrophobic, high-pressure atmosphere of a legendary live performance where the instruments seem to be fighting for space in the red.
If you are new to the Turks, start with their 1993 masterpiece !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!. It is a definitive document of the 90s garage punk revival, packed with hooks that are as sharp as the distortion. From there, dive into Information Highway Revisited to hear them lean even harder into their signature brand of intellectualized, high-speed 'destructo-rock.'
The New Bomb Turks are an American punk rock band formed at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, United States, 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. 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." 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 while Eric Davidson is also the singer in Livids since forming the band with others in Brooklyn, New York, in early 2011. The band's name refers to the main character (Newbomb Turk) in the 1980 film The Hollywood Knights, played by Robert Wuhl.
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