★★★★★
As of this writing, there is a certain pop diva who is climbing what's left of the music "charts" with a startling amount of ease. Her face seems to be everywhere, from Coke ads on digital billboards to fluff news stores on Yahoo!'s main page. Come Grammy time, we'll get to hear about her some more. And more. Should you express some distate for either her music or just the overexposure on display, you'll be shouted down on social media with empty-calorie cries of "haters gonna hate...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-12-15
★★★★★
The Dead Milkmen often seemed to labor in the shadow of their fellow Philadelphia brethren Ween, especially after ceding the smart-ass musician floor to them and They Might Be Giants with their 1995 dissolution. The Milkmen reunited in 2008 and in 2011 released The King In Yellow. Ween broke up a year later, providing an opening...
- www.altpress.com
2014-10-21
★★★★★
It's been close to thirty years since The Dead Milkmen first came out of Philadelphia with their own satirical brand of punk rock. Debuting in 1985 with Big Lizard in my Backyard, music fans were treated to jangly, raucous tunes about small town politics ("Tiny Town"), freedom of personal beliefs ("Swordfish"), and the classic tale of youthful entitlement that is "Bitchin' Camaro...
- www.punknews.org
2014-10-08
★★★★★
Music-industry second acts aren't particularly common, but then, nor are they rare. Ben Folds Five re-emerged, phoenix-like, two years ago after a decade on hiatus (though, admittedly, the solo Folds and his overlapping repertoire weren't exactly consigned to oblivion). The trio's 2012 "comeback" album, The Sound of the Life of the Mind, was more like the sound of Ben Folds Five having never really gone away...
- www.ink19.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
The Dead Milkmen's extensive catalog contains some not-so-uplifting tunes such as "Life is Shit" and "If You Love Somebody, Set Them On Fire," and the band re-formed in 2004 under the unfortunate circumstance of performing memorial shows for late bassist Dave Schulthise, who committed suicide. It shouldn't come as a surprise that, with 16 years between albums, the venerated Philadelphia punk rockers created a pretty dark record with The King In Yellow...
- www.altpress.com
2011-10-27
★★★★★
History hasn't been kind to The Dead Milkmen. While fellow '80s music geeks They Might Be Giants have been elevated to nerd-rock gods, the Philadelphia foursome responsible for "Bitchin' Camaro" and "Punk Rock Girl" faded into obscurity and day jobs. Sixteen years after fizzing out with the justly forgotten Stoney's Extra Stout (Pig), the Milkmen make good on their recent reunion gigs with the somewhat unexpected The King In Yellow, which the group released suddenly on its website this month...
- www.avclub.com
2011-04-04
★★★★★
Like a punk-rock version of Beavis and Butt-head, Philly's The Dead Milkmen get by on dumb yuks and attitude. The attitude comes through in Chaos Rules: Live at the Trocadero, but the sophomoric jokes are buried in the mix. That leaves the secondhand punky music ? never the band's strong point. C
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
I just moved. For the last 28 years I've lived within 40 minutes of Boston, Massachusetts, but within the last three months, I've gotten engaged, moved to New York City and, like a lot of people, I don't have a job right now. Unemployment and The Dead Milkmen make perfect bedfellows...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
A little blast from our college radio punk rock past. I was 15 years old when this record came out, but I didn't truly appreciate it until I was in college and learned to like music other than heavy metal. Dean Clean, Joe Jack Talcum, Dave Blood, and Rodney Anonymous were a bunch of stoned slackers that spit out an infectious blend of punk rock and beatnik-y acoustic folk. Imagine the Violent Femmes covering Descendents tunes, only with lyrics written by seventh graders...
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-06-05
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