Wreck (band)
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Origin | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States |
Genres | Indie rock, industrial rock |
Years active | 1988–1994 |
Labels | Play It Again Sam, Wax Trax!, C/Z |
Associated acts | Die Kreuzen, Boy Dirt Car, The Waco Brothers, Dollar Store |
Past members |
Dean Schlabowske Bart Flores Keith Brammer Kurt Moore |
Wreck was an indie rock band formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988, and later based in Chicago. After releasing three albums the band split up in the mid-1990s, with singer/guitarist Dean Schlabowske going on to found The Waco Brothers.
History
The band was formed in Los Angeles in 1988,[1] and comprised Dean Schlabowske (later of the []) on electric guitar and vocals, Bart Flores on drums, and Keith Brammer (from Die Kreuzen and Boy Dirt Car) on bass guitar.
The band's first release was a self-titled EP on the Play It Again Sam label in 1989, in association with Wax Trax!, with Steve Albini producing.[1][2] The Milwaukee Journal's Thor Christensen described the EP: "Guitars sound like drums, drums sound like machine guns, and vocalist Schlabowske sounds like he's just swallowed napalm".[2] Debut album Soul Train followed in 1990, also produced by Albini, and described by Allmusic as "abstract, difficult songs...the work of a band that had no desire to compromise its creative vision".[3] The band released second album House of Boris in 1991, by which time Kurt Moore (The Won't, Primasonic) had joined on bass guitar.[4]
The band recorded a second album for Wax Trax! (Your Monkey's on Fire), but it remained unreleased apart from advance cassette copies.[1] The band re-recorded it as El Mundo De Los Niños, with production from Jon Langford of The Mekons, who Schlabowske joined in The Waco Brothers.[5]
Schlabowske later formed Dollar Store.[6]
Discography
Albums
EPs
- Wreck 4-song 12" EP (1989), PIAS
Singles
- "Mikey" 7" single b/w "Funk 49" (1992)
References
- 1 2 3 Proefrock, Stacia "Wreck Biography", Allmusic, retrieved 2011-07-17
- 1 2 Christensen, Thor (1990) "Soundings", The Milwaukee Journal, January 23, 1990, p. 2D, retrieved 2011-07-17
- ↑ Henderson, Alex "Soul Train Review", Allmusic, retrieved 2011-07-17
- ↑ Locey, Bill (1991) "MUSIC WRECK Screeching Decibels The three-piece guitar band out of Chicago has hit the road for a tour of the West Coast. It will be pulling in to Isla Vista]", Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1991, p. 12
- ↑ Robbins, Ira "Waco Brothers/Wreck", Trouser Press, retrieved 2011-07-17
- ↑ Guarino, Mark (2007) "On the money Dollar Store open for business", Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), August 10, 2007