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Knockout Pills

August 17th, 2006 | Posted by: Eric | Category: Modern Trash

Knockout Pills - knockoutpills.com

Tucson’s Knockout Pills are the perfect antidote to a crappy day ( i.e. today ). No kidding, a bad day at work followed by 30 minute commute with the Knockout Pills on the Ipod and I’m good to go. The stun gun guitar, big hooks, and plain ‘ol infectious energy of their songs generally helps shit roll off my back. Don’t take my word for it - here’s how current label Estrus hypes their shit :

bridging the gap between a beer stained pile of revved up American & Aussie punk records of the 70s and a stack of choice US garage, British invasion and psych sides from the 60’s and pure ‘04 AZ foxfire…think early Didgits, Husker Du, Saints, Birdman, Teengenerate, Ramones, Cheap Trick, Real Kids…Hell, you get the score.

To date the band has two excellent records to their credit, 2003’s Knockout Pills on Deadbeat, and 2004’s 1+1=Ate on Estrus. Here’s a taste

Knockout Pills - Reject Button.mp3
Knockout Pills - Divine Distraction.mp3
Knockout Pills - Stab Wound Baby.mp3
Knockout Pills - Summertown Rundown.mp3

Notes:
>> Guitarist Jason Willis and drummer Gerard Schumacher were members of personal faves of the Weird Lovemakers
>> Willis blogs at Scar Stuff, though the site has been inactive for a bit
>> Check out the Knockout Pills @ Myspace
>> Buy music by the Knockout Pills

9 Comments so far

  1. Emerson August 18th, 2006 7:31 am

    30 minute commute?! On Fridays it takes 45 minutes just to get from Jamboree to Euclid on the 405 here in Orange County — and they’re 4.5 miles apart! Grrrrrrrrrrr…

  2. Eric August 18th, 2006 9:48 am

    It’s a trade off - short commute times versus 120″ of snow every winter

  3. Neal August 18th, 2006 2:06 pm

    My new fave punk band! Great stuff!

  4. donn August 18th, 2006 5:28 pm

    GREAT live band also….tucson is full of kickass bands

  5. ben August 18th, 2006 9:57 pm

    What a great band. I discovered them when 1+1=Ate came out, and it’s still in my “preferred stack” of music by my stereo. Denton, TX’s The Marked Men also do a great job of this end of punk.

  6. Bryan August 20th, 2006 10:07 am

    Kick ass. Thanks for the intro.

  7. Dfactor August 20th, 2006 3:21 pm

    Wow! Thanks! Great stuff! And I was *just* blogging about Angel City (aka The Angels - touch Aussie fast rock.) Great band name too!

  8. Randy August 23rd, 2006 11:59 pm

    awesome stuff. makes me want to move back to AZ…

  9. tango fistula September 20th, 2006 12:22 am

    they just broke up.

    im not fucking happy about this

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