Extreme Noise Records Presents:
Zero Boys, Sick Thoughts, G.U.N.and more!
Saturday, November 16, 2024/ Doors: 6:30 PM / Show: 7:00 PM
All Ages
Standing
$30 Advance, $35 Day of Show
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Extreme Noise Records Presents the last show of their 30th anniversary series here at The Cedar with this November 16th offering of Zero Boys, Sick Thoughts, G.U.N., Color TV, and Citric Dummies.
Happy Anniversary, Extreme Noise!
Extreme Noise Records, located at 407 W. Lake St. in Minneapolis is a collectively owned and operated punk record store since 1994.
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Zero Boys
Zero Boys are a hardcore punk quartet from Indianapolis formed in 1979. The band is fronted by singer Paul Mahern. Mark Cutsinger (drums), Scott Kellogg (bass), and Dave Lawson (guitar) complete the lineup. Zero Boys' first release, Livin' in the '80s, was a 7" EP released by the band on their home-brew Z-Disc label. But it's the vivid yellow followup LP, Vicious Circle, that cemented the band's legacy in the halls of punk rock greatness.
Many punk fans nationwide expressed surprise that a band like the Zero Boys originated in the Midwest. Their polished intensity suggested larger and more established scenes in Los Angeles, Washington DC, New York City, and elsewhere. Indeed, their 1982 "Hell Tour" appearance at The Barn in Torrance, CA (with roadies Gary X Indiana and Marvin Goldstein in tow), on a bill with the Dead Kennedys and Minor Threat, demonstrated that Zero Boys were a Midwestern punk rock force to be reckoned with.
Not content to rest on their laurels, Zero Boys released Monkey in 2014, their first LP in over twenty years. Shortly after that, they released an EP, Hollywood, a tribute to the original Zero Boys guitar genius Terry "Hollywood" Howe, who passed in 2000. Here's what singer Paul Mahern said about Terry:
"On the night of Terry’s death, I woke to the sound of a buzz saw in my living room. I rushed to see what was going on and realized I was hearing the opening chords of 'Vicious Circle' coming from my stereo speakers. I examined the CD player and realized it was not turned on. I knew without a doubt Terry was saying goodbye and telling me to never stop believing in the energy of Rock ’n’ Roll.”
Zero Boys take this message to heart, and bring high-intensity rock and roll to audiences worldwide.
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Sick Thoughts
If you don’t know Sick Thoughts, you don’t know punk. The band is the mighty Drew Owen. Baltimore born and bred, he then up and moved to the swamps of New Orleans while still a teenager. The general consensus was he’d be another casualty of The Big Easy decadence, and would soon be seen hitting up tourists for money on Bourbon Street with a dog on a rope. But somehow he got hooked up with the best (worst?) folks in the city and kept making great music. That, and the fact that forty-ounce bottles just bounce off his head, have kept him alive. Rock and roll romance and the promise of socialized health care sent him to the (imaginary?) home of Killed By Death punk, Helsinki, Finland. Which makes perfect sense—this album is like the perfect KBD record, full of buzzsaw guitars, machine gun drums and hooks that hit like a tire iron. Owen’s brand of aural early-20s angst, with doses of Zero Boys, Reatards, and early Crüe, mixed with the stench of the streets, has never sounded better. This album clearly puts Sick Thoughts on top of the punk heap. It’s Owen’s world—get in it!
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G.U.N.
Nashville, Tennessee’s G.U.N. roars onto vinyl with their debut full-length for Sorry State. Hearkening back to the glory days of the early No Way, Grave Mistake, and Sorry State catalogs—the band features two members of No Way Records’ Life Trap—G.U.N. lives where the hardcore underground meets the criminal underworld. While G.U.N.’s music evokes Koro’s lightning-speed intricacy and the Adolescents’ surfy hooks, the lyrics describe a sick, sad world that takes Black Flag’s “No Values” as philosophical truth, imbuing G.U.N.’s sound with a palpable sense of desperation. Charismatic vocalist Nico Arambatzis can summon Damaged-era Henry’s primal howl one second, then in the next hit a magical note that transforms a song into an anthem, pushing standout tracks like “A Prisoner’s Tale,” “Sadist Faction,” and the epic closer “Sick Sad World” well beyond your standard bash-and-crash. Guitarist Connor Cummins (whom you might know from his other projects Snooper and Spodee Boy) is similarly dynamic, crafting whirlwind riffs and leads that are as powerful and as unpredictable as afternoon thunderstorms in the sticky southern summer. It all adds up to a classic-sounding hardcore punk record bursting with energy and dripping with hooks.
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Color TV
Color TV brings speedy punk rock that slaps with tight bursts of melody and quirks with sardonic musings of living in the sci-fi dystopian hellscape that is the now. Heavily influenced by early UK punk and USHC with subtle underpinnings of bands like Sparks and Ultravox, this is punk music clearly made by lifers obsessed with the underground counter-culture. Come, children, time to gather around and drink the electric Kool-Aide of C-TV!
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Citric Dummies
Bursting out of a burning trash heap like some mutated, blitzed skeleton in a leather jacket, Citric Dummies thrash their listeners with a heavy dose of pulverizing punk madness on their latest LP Zen and The Arcade of Beating Your Ass. The Minneapolis based trio have previously released a handful of endlessly infectious records on US and Euro labels like Erste Theke Tonträger, Fashionable Idiots, and Another Label- luring in unsuspecting punks with their aberrant, tuneful noise. Citric Dummies rip turbocharged, catchy songs riddled with big hooks that are inhaled like paint fumes by fans of niche KBD gems and classics like The Ramones and The Misfits. The band has signed with Feel It Records to release their most dialed and corrosive record to date- a pièce de résistance for LSD enthusiasts and jabronis alike.
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