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Labels: Rad Girlfriend 100 comp (and other label news)
News — October 20, 2019
Rad Girlfriend Records has announced release 100, a 36 song double LP compilation that comes with a 38-page zine. The comp includes new and unreleased tracks from The Dopamines, The Ranging Nathans, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, Wonk Unit, Capitalist Kids, Steve Adamyk, Todd Congelliere, The Brokedowns, Vacation, and a bunch …
Shows: T1 Fest in Joliet
News — June 23, 2019
A new festival, the T1 Festival, will run on NOvember 8-9 in Joliet, featuring several Illinois punk bands playing to raise funds for the JDRF, (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation). The event was organized by Jim Costanzo who was inspired after his nephew was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. The two-day …
Records: Premiere: "Breakdown" from The Slow Death
News — October 27, 2013
We previously announced a Red Scare Industries split between Minneapolis based The Slow Death and Elgin, IL's The Brokedowns. Well, Scene Point Blank is excited today to premiere a song off the split here, "Breakdown." The Slow Death features Jesse Thorson of Pretty Boy Thorson & the Falling Angels and …
Various Artists – Brokedowns / Vacation Bible School split
Review — December 30, 2013
Taking Side A on the Elgin, IL focused 7” are The Brokedowns, who last released Species Bender in 2010. After a slew of splits in their career and a few full-lengths, they’ve really settled into a distinct style. It’s punk with a verse-chorus-verse kind of structure at its core, …
The Brokedowns – Species Bender
Review — October 25, 2010
Three long years after New Brains for Everyone rallied cynical drunks everywhere, the Brokedowns have returned with another full-length, this time for Chicago’s Red Scare Industries. From a stomping wooly mammoth adorning the cover to the shout-a-long climactic ending, Species Bender is a record that both celebrates and lampoons a …
The Brokedowns – Life Is a Breeze
Review — January 19, 2015
The Brokedowns have come a long way. That’s not to say they were torchbearers of suckitude earlier, but early reviews of the band were festivals of namedropping and comparisons to various Midwestern-tinged punk groups. On Life Is A Breeze, those RIYL days of yore can go straight into the …
The Brokedowns – Sick of Space
Review — July 30, 2018
When I stop and look at the discogs, The Brokedowns have been doing what they do for a long time now. What is that, exactly? Well, it’s Midwestern punk that’s angry, funny, heavy, and harmonic. There are contradictions in plain sight in that description, and that diversity in sound is …
