CRAPPY DRACULA w/ Earl Foss and The Brown Derby

CRAPPY DRACULA w/ Earl Foss and The Brown Derby
March 21, 8:00 PM
Ages: 21+

☆ Opening act(s): Earl Foss and The Brown Derby

"Crappy Dracula had just started as I arrived, and it was shockingly my first time seeing the Milwaukee scene mainstays. Before I say anything else about their performance, let me say this: Crappy Dracula are fucking funny. This applies to nearly every aspect of their performance. They even wrote out their own setlist from right to left, as to make it unreadable. This attention to detail is apparent in the songs they write: well-crafted punky nuggets about buying things, work, and other stuff that you or I don't think to write songs about. They also dropped a cover of Flipper's "Ha Ha Ha", which seems appropriate, as Crappy Dracula is also a punk band who'd rather be clever than visceral. Music doesn't have to be some sort of emotional ham-handed release, and Crappy Dracula proves it's usually better when it isn't." -- FAN BELT

"'Almost', the first record from Milwaukee's transgressive trio Crappy Dracula, isn't nearly the endurance test the band wants it to be. 'This record is over-the-top intentionally stupid, silly AND obnoxious power garage punkish rock!', the band promises in their press release. 'It contains a song about partying in a hospital waste dump, another stressing the dated importance of good manners, and a real jammer about a disgruntled textbook factory worker.' It does indeed contain those songs-as well as another called 'Song Against Architects,' probably the first song ever written about hoping a Frank Lloyd building falls down-but despite all the lo-fi scuzz, they're short, fun and tuneful, with little of the performance-art disdain for the audience the band shows live." -- SHEPHERD EXPRESS

"If band's like Tyvek are the bright & clever head of the class students in the modern of school of Wire Pink Flag teachings Milwaukee Wisconsin's Crappy Dracula are the freshmen who are always getting swirlies and being thrown head first into lockers. A barrage of bright & brittle Telecaster bursts, burping bass lines and marching band drums going way off the route of the parade snaps & bangs crash together in overmodulated 4 track glory. Many moments of angular goofing that culminates in what has to be accidental brilliance on their side's 2nd song "Application" (sandwiched between the nerd punk conniption fit of "Hospital Waste Management Facility Party Tonight" and a faithfully battered take on Guided By Voices "A Good Flying Bird") where it's a Pabst drunk Red Crayola before they changed the spelling of their name. Interestingly the band spells their name The Krappy Drakula on this record. I've been assured that it's just in coincidental and I shouldn't put so much thinking into trying to figure out if their are any cryptic messages/secret motives that the band may have because it's giving them too much credit." -- SMASHIN' TRANSISTORS

"If you're making a mixtape for someone who loves both Flipper and Leonard Cohen, then you're gonna want to find this, solely for Crappy Dracula's version of "The Butcher." -- GIVE ME BACK (reviewer: FIL) on the Crappy Dracula/Sonorous Gale split 7"

"THE place to prepare for your bbq. And, for your authentic European meats, eastern and western. My favorite of the house is the braunschweiger. Made in the shop, clean, tasty and light. And half (or less) than the 'stuff' you'd find at Safeway." -- GREG S.'s review of DITTMER'S WURSTHAUS on DINE.COM