Stay Punk

When I interviewed Ryan Young (Off With Their Heads) back in 2007, he told me he was starting a record label and that his second release was going to be from some band called Turkish Techno. That didn’t come to be for whatever reason but I had looked them up and, when I started Traffic Street a year later, they were one of the first bands that I reached out to. I wound up releasing two split 7-inches for them: one with my band (Troublemake) and the other with The Brokedowns.

In 2011, they released their first LP. It wasn’t on Traffic Street but they did use the title (and sequence!) that I suggested. It’s a great album and they’re almost done with the follow-up. Since those songs haven’t gone online yet though, here are four from 2011’s “Past Due.”

Back in April, I designed a shirt for them; it’s an adaptation of the dry erase board in my room back in Bradenton.

And here’s some art that I’m not responsible for:

Art by Gord Lafler, who also plays drums in Iron Chic.

Art by Mitch Clem, curator of the “As You Were” punk comics anthologies.

Art by Bill Pinkel, Awesome Fest artist and Razorcake illustrator.