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Infobox musical artist | name = New Bomb Turks| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Columbus, Ohio , USA | genre = Punk rock , garage punk , hardcore punk | years_active = 1990–present| label = Crypt Records|Crypt , Gearhead Records|Gearhead , Epitaph Records|Epitaph , Fat Wreck Chords | associated_acts =| website = http://www.newbombturks.com www.newbombturks.com| current_members = Jim Weber Eric Davidson Sam Brown Matt Reber| past_members = Bill RandtThe 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|date=October 2009 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."cite web|url= http://www.buy.com/prod/destroy-oh-boy/q/loc/109/60268651.html|title=Destroy-Oh-Boy& #33; - New Bomb Turks - CD - Buy.com 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 Records|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, Ohio|Hilliard Davidson High School.
The band's name refers to the main character (Newbomb Turk) in the 1980 film The Hollywood Knights , played by Robert Wuhl .
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)
Assassins Of Silence Hundred Watt Violence (Ceres Records, 1995)
500 Miles To Glory (Gearhead Records, 1995)
Punk Rock Jukebox (Cherrydisc/Blackout& #33; Records, 1995)
Nardwuar The Human Serviette Presents: Skookum Chief Powered Teenage Zit Rock Angst (NardWuar Records, 1995)
Glory Daze (soundtrack)|Glory Daze Soundtrack (Kung Fu Records, 1996)
Punk-O-Rama 2 (Epitaph, 1996)
Cheapo Crypt Sampler II (Crypt Records, 1997)
Punk-O-Rama 3 (Epitaph, 1998)
Punk-O-Rama 4 (Epitaph, 1999)
Punk-O-Rama 5 (Epitaph, 2000)
The Las Vegas Shakedown (Masked Superstar, 2000)
How We Rock (Burning Heart Records , 2002)
Smash Up Derby (Gearhead Records, 2002)
The Gearhead Records Thingmaker (Gearhead Records, 2003)
Motorcycle Mania 3 Soundtrack (BMG, 2004)
Attack From the Planet of the Devil Dogs (Head Dip, 2004)
A Fistful of Rock N Roll Volume 9 (Devil Doll, 2009)
References
Reflist
External links
official| http://www.newbombturks.com
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p144746
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/new_bomb_turks/bio.jhtml VH1 entry on the New Bomb Turks
http://www.operationphoenixrecords.com/newbombturks.html Suburban Voice Interview - New Bomb Turks interview from 1994
Category:American punk rock groups Category:Earache Records artists Category:Epitaph Records artists Category:Garage punk groups Category:Musical groups from Columbus, Ohio
