For anyone still standing with us that lived through the '90s punk onslaught, TEENGENERATE were the guiding light through the haze. A band almost too good to be true and always full of surprises, their short window of existence from 1993-1995 was just a flash in time in retrospect, but if you were lucky enough to touch the hem of their garments, you know the magic we're talking about. Lucky for us an official TEENGENERATE documentary was produced in 2014 and has to been seen to be believed, so if you haven't experienced it, you're really in for a treat. And it just so happens that Hozac Records has just unleashed the essential Live At the Empty Bottle LP capturing the band at their peak, recorded in the eye of the storm.
An earth-moving night in Chicago, 30 crazy years ago, caught HOT on tape and finally unleashed! Teengenerate were a force to be reckoned with in the ‘90s garage punk underground and with their string of classic singles and LPs, the Midwest was just STARVED for these heathens to break our minds wide open. And they did, and some of us were just “never the same.”
Just an awe-inspiring brute force of punk purity, slashing through incredible covers of THE KIDS, PAGANS, and FUN THINGS and sowing the seeds of obscure punk obsessions to no end with their savage treasure map of sick sounds.
The heat, the power, the rage and the euphoria, it just doesn’t always align like it did when Fink & Fifi took the stage. Sure enough, it was this month 30 years ago that our minds were blown apart and our eyes were opened and a life-changing rock’n roll performance that commemorates the 50th release on the Hozac Archival subsidiary. Secretly recorded by Ken White, the Brides’ right hand man, and mastered by TIM WARREN of Crypt Records for maximum authenticity, Live at the Empty Bottle just explodes out of the grooves and will level anyone within earshot, just like it did when Teengenerate desecrated Chicago TWICE on the same night (check out their VML Live at the Fireside Bowl 7? too!), 30 crazy years ago this month.
Grab a copy HERE while you still can!
TEENGENERATE 'Get Action!' documentary (2014)
TEENGENERATE Live at 251 Club Shimokitazawa
