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The Dead Milkmen are a punk band hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States that formed in 1983. The band have released ten studio albums since their debut in 1985, and are most known for their sardonic parodies of punk rock culture, and their 1988 breakthrough single “Punk Rock Girl”.

The satirical punk band began life as the home recording project of singer and guitarist Joe Genaro, and a friend of his from school called Garth. The pair came up with a fictional punk band called The Dead Milkmen, and began writing and recording cassette tapes of songs that were said to be written by this conceptual rock band. The project never really left Genaro’s bedroom but the duo wrote and recorded constantly until they reached college age, giving the budding guitarist an abundance of experience in writing tongue in cheek lyrics and jangly, three chord punk rock. However while Genaro left home to attend Philadelphia’s Temple University, Garth joined the United States Air Force. For the time being, The Dead Milkmen were, for lack of a better word, dead.

However, as many young musicians will tell you, there’s nowhere quite like university to find other young musicians, and through mutual friends Genaro met the future rhythm section of the band. Genaro started rehearsing with Dave Schulthise on the bass guitar and Dean Sabatino on the drums in 1981, and it took the trio a while to commit to it. They couldn’t get the band’s singer Rodney Linderman to commit to fronting the band until mere weeks before their first show in 1983, and after that the band immediately started making up for lost time. They played live all over the Philadelphia punk scene, were soon touring nationally and by 1985 they had signed to Restless Records, where they released their first album “Big Lizard In My Backyard”, the same year.

Since then the band have become one of the most beloved cult acts in punk rock, and for a genre that’s basically made up of them, that’s saying a lot. The group saw an influx of attention in 1987 when Jim Walewander, a Major League Baseball player, started talking the band up as his favourite band. The group followed this up with 1988’s “Beezlebubba” and its lead single “Punk Rock Girl”, one of the most deathless hits in American punk rock. Hilariously enough, the band secured a record deal that wasn’t just with a major label; it was with Hollywood Records, a label owned by the Walt Disney Company. Any crossover appeal that the label thought the band might have went to waste and they were soon dropped from it.

Not so hilariously, the band broke up in 1994 due to their frustration with music industry machinations and Dave Schulthise’s tendinitis, an affliction that made performing unbearably painful for him. Tragically, he committed suicide a decade after the band originally split in 2004, just as reunion talks were emerging. The rest of the group reconvened for a couple of benefit concerts in his memory and got back together full time in 2008, releasing two of their most acclaimed records 2008’s “The King In Yellow”, and 2014’s “Pretty Music For Pretty People”. Clearly The Dead Milkmen are a band that are far more vital and important than their parody-punk exterior suggests, look a little deeper and you’ll find a band truly worth following. Highly recommended.

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The Dead Milkmen put on a kind of concert that is full of energy and downright fun. They bring the exhilaration to their music by playing in a fast paced, rambunctious way, but their lighthearted antics and carefree approach to performance makes the audience have a good time. Although The Dead Milkmen were disbanded for quite some time, they recently regrouped in 2008 to the glee of their fans and have been going strong ever since their reformation. Their music at times is sloppy, but this is just part of their style and is a part of their music that goes against formulaic conventions and makes their songs interesting. In songs like “Beach Song” they start off the music in a very melodic and catchy format, but later in the song they come in with obnoxious yelling and sporadic guitar rhythms and sing about how they have no desire to spend their summer like everyone else. Their lyrics are often ridiculous and hysterical, perfectly embracing the punk style of teenage angst and reveling in disobedience and strong-will.

The Dead Milkmen still perform with the childish frivolity that makes them so loveable and fresh. Lead singer, Rodney Linderman, runs around stage yelling his punk rock songs into the microphone and inciting all of his fans to jump into the fun. During live performances they are likely to play songs encompassing most of their albums including their hit song, “Punk Rock Girl”. They will also probably be playing songs from their latest album release, “The King in Yellow”.

The Dead Milkmen’s blend of punk and pop music mixed in with a hint of a country vibe makes their sound unique and engaging. Their fun attitude and strong passion to create energetic music makes their show a must see.

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The Dead Milkmen’s Dean Clean Preps Four Decades of Fans for Shore Tour & More

Somewhere on the internet is a grainy video of the Dead Milkmen playing the Atlantic City Elks Lodge. 

It was 1985.

Thanks to the opening of the Anchor Rock Club last year at 247 S. New York Ave. in the famed beach hotspot, the Milkmen will be back, doing their thing, in that very same city on May 13.

Though not traditional in any way or genre, The Dead Milkmen were an early pillar of Philly’s music scene, forming in 1983 – Rodney Anonymous and Joe Genaro sharing vocal duties of creatively insane lyrics while playing keys and guitar respectively, the late Dave Blood on bass and Dean Clean holding it together on the drums.

“We had a very collaborative attitude from the beginning. A few years in I started learning guitar too, so I was able to help write some of the songs,” says Dean, who’s actual last name is Sabatino.

Today Sabatino lives in Media, Pennsylvania with his wife. His 24-year-old son has broken into the music business, as well, producing and getting involved in video, a point of pride for Sabatino. The Milkmen drummer is a graphic designer, creates solo synth music, and also plays with the instrumental guitar rock band, I Think I Like Midnight.

The Milkmen released their first LP,  Big Lizard in my Backyard , in 1985 on Restless Records, which was putting out all manner of alternative music in the eighties. That record was quickly followed by  Eat Your Paisley  in ’86. 

“We started in the hardcore scene playing those shows, but we definitely weren’t a hardcore band. We were part of the college radio scene, and I don’t know that that exists much anymore. For a long time, we kind of existed going from one university town to another playing shows. We started by calling ‘that guy John who books shows in his basement’ and then moved on to clubs and bigger venues with that indie rock do-it-yourself ethic,” Sabatino explains. 

What made the Milkmen special was not only their quirky and often political humor that skewered redneck conservatism and closed-minded mentalities, but they simply didn’t sound like anyone else before or during their time.

“Politics have always been a part of our music, even if we did it through humor… but we had something to say and we wanted to make our statements,” Sabatino adds.

1988’s  Beelzebubba  was somewhat of an offbeat hand grenade that no one saw coming with the iconic “Punk Rock Girl” exploding beyond their usual college radio airplay. It was a particularly odd time for an unpredictable Pennsylvania indie-punk band to have something of a hit. The early eighties golden age of American punk was over and it was still years before the alternative breakthrough of 1991. Plus, Philly was barely yet on the musical map.

“It was strange. We were on rotation on MTV with all those hair bands,” chuckles the musician. 

The following years saw recording and touring to exhaustion. They recorded the classic  Chaos Rules: Live at the Trocadero  in 1994 and amicably went separate ways. 

Sabatino admits that he “initiated that after so many years of just being on the road.”

It was a full decade before they became active again, but things took a turn for the worse when Dave Blood (Dave Schulthise) took his own life. They played two benefit shows in his name but didn’t play together again until they were billed atop the lineup of Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin in 2008. They continued to book occasional shows and record for the next ten years until the pandemic derailed plans for a new album.

“We started practicing again last fall when we felt like it was safe to do so. The first thing we did was pick up on the songs we had been working on. We’re playing a few shows in the spring and summer, but we want to complete this album. We have about six or seven songs we need to finish to get the record out.”

The band’s most recent release is 2020’s  (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang  7-inch, darkly ironic that the same extremism they railed against four decades ago still, and possibly more relevant today. They do a weekly video called  Big Questions with the Dead Milkmen  on Youtube where they discuss a topic and let the discussion range from of deep philosophy to hilarity.

Sabatino is also excited to have watched Philly’s scene transform for the better through his life in music.

“There are some great venues in Philly. I know Rodney is really into industrial music and he used to complain that bands would skip Philly, but it’s been good to see it really grow in the last ten years. The R5 guys have done a good job. There have been so many great shows at the Church. I really enjoyed the Boot and Saddle, which unfortunately is no more. But I really like Underground Arts, Johnny Brendas, and now there’s Union Transfer and the Filmore.” 

The Milkmen show in AC is anything but random. When the Anchor Rock Club opened in the city known for anything but punk and/or original music, the enlisted Philly’s Chris Ward, who had had become the booking kingpin for Johnny Brenda’s, the venue credited for helping revive the Fishtown neighborhood. Ward has been attracting national acts to AC since last summer, bands that would have never ventured that far down the Parkway.

And so, as the skit at the start of ‘Bitchin’ Camaro’ made reference to so many years ago, “rumor around town says they might be thinkin’ ’bout goin’ down to the Shore.”

And they are.

“People think we hate the Shore,” laughs Sabatino in reference to that tune and “Beach Song” on the same album, “but we don’t.”

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