Release Date: November 14, 2018
Montclair, NJ – Pogo for Christmas, the third album from beloved New Jersey punk rockers Thee Volatiles, features a special Hannukah tune with the Yiddish vocals of Midnight Nosh’s Debra Caplan and Daniel Brenner. Caplan starts off the track with a soulful accordion and vocal intro that quickly ramps up into full-on mosh-pit-worthy punk. The microphone is then passed to frontman Dewar Macleod, who belts out a translation in English and then it swings back to Yiddish with Daniel Brenner on vocals. December 20th the song will be played live as part of THEE VOLATILES Punk Rock Xmas Extravaganza at Tierney’s Tavern in Montclair, New Jersey.
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Pogo For Christmas, released November 14, 2018
Momo Blandino: Bass, Backing Vox
Kevin Delaney: Guitars, Backing Vox
Dewar MacLeod: Vocals, Guitar
Timmy Smith: Drums
Daniel Brenner: Vox and Guitar
Debra Caplan: Vox and Accordion
About THEE VOLATILES
After a nearly 16 year hiatus, the innovative and sometimes reviled indie rock quartet, Thee Volatiles, has been rocking again with disarming energy and intensity.
The band, which came of age in the late 1980s underground East Village DIY club scene, scripted the self-deprecating middle-class vulnerability of the ’80s and 90s just as sharply as Dylan sketched the conspicuous middle-class dreams of the ’60s.
And seeing them live, after all these years is like scratching a itch you didn’t know you had.
The band returns to form: Kevin Delaney, with his reckless, take-no-prisoners lead guitar, 20 years later still spews out some grossly beautiful racket- equal parts Kiss babyfood-metal, Robert Quine art-mangle, and pure-pop trash.
Frontman Dewar MacLeod, an aloof fuck-up much like Delaney, still lets loose his timestamped and heart-wrenching, unconcerned howl.
Momo Blandino, just 13 when she joined, still rocks her airborne rock star poses and thumps punkily, flashing her I’m-too-young-to-know-better glance at the college boys.
Sitting in for the now deceased Remy Martin is Timmy Smith, hunched over his drums, pounding away like somebody was chasing him…He was still in short-pants the first time Thee Volatiles took the world by storm.
There was never much tawdry glamor with Thee Volatiles; just raw nerves, and thankfully, we can all now start scratching once again.
GW Bridge, New York Press Weekly 9/3/13