The New Bomb Turks are an American punk rock

Punk rock

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 band formed at the Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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 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. Music magazine Alternative Press has described their musical style, saying, "Not only have both prole

Prole

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-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

Sympathy for the Record Industry

Sympathy for the Record Industry is a mainly independent garage rock and punk label formed in 1988 by record industry anti-mogul Long Gone John...

, Get Hip

Get Hip Records

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 and Bag of Hammers labels. Crypt Records

Crypt Records

Crypt Records is a Hamburg-based record label and record store founded by Tim Warren. The label is perhaps best known for issuing the eight-volume Back From The Grave Series of garage rock compilations, although its reissues and releases include surf, rockabilly, punk rock, exotica, garage punk,...

 signed the band and released !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!

!!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!

!!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! is the debut album by the American garage punk group New Bomb Turks. It was released in 1993 by Crypt Records. The album was recorded in 1992 with the band not thinking anyone would notice it. It was released to very positive reviews....

, Information Highway Revisited, and Pissing Out The Poison. Then Epitaph Records

Epitaph Records

Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record...

 signed them and released LPs Scared Straight, At Rope's End and Nightmare Scenario. Gearhead Records

Gearhead Records

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 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

Hilliard, Ohio

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 Davidson High School. The band's name refers to the main character (Newbaum Turk) in the 1980 film "The Hollywood Knights

The Hollywood Knights

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", played by Robert Wuhl

Robert Wuhl

-Early life:Wuhl was born in Union, New Jersey to a Jewish family, including a father who worked as a produce distributor. After attending Union High School, Wuhl headed to the University of Houston, where he was active in the drama department and the Epsilon-Omicron Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon...

.

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

Garage punk

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 or blues punk.

LP's

• !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!
  !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!
  !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! is the debut album by the American garage punk group New Bomb Turks. It was released in 1993 by Crypt Records. The album was recorded in 1992 with the band not thinking anyone would notice it. It was released to very positive reviews....
  
  (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)

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