We challenged each other to do a solo cover of one of our own songs and, most recently, to write a song based on an instruction manual. We have a call on Thursday nights and have kept up posting new episodes this whole time. When COVID hit, we began using Zoom meetings to keep it going. They would go up on YouTube on Saturday mornings. The latter turned out to be fortuitous, because by mid-March, all rehearsals stopped, and we went into stay-at-home mode.īefore quarantine, we had started a YouTube series called “Big Questions With The Dead Milkmen.” We took turns posing a “big question” to each other and filming our answers during rehearsals. We also wanted to do more with our languishing YouTube channel. In January we began writing and rehearsing new songs for a full album and were getting ready to record the first batch. Sabatino: The Dead Milkmen had big plans for this year. Vintage Video: The Dead Milkmen make a mess of ‘Club MTV.Like the majority of you, all of us in the Philadelphia area are staying at home, learning to adapt to our “new normal.” MAGNET is checking in with local musicians to see how and what they’re doing during this unprecedented time.
Premiere: The Dead Milkmen, ‘Only the Dead Get Off at Kymlinge’ - off upcoming EP.Here’s the inaugural “big questions” video. No details yet on the new album, which will be the band’s first full-length since 2014’s Pretty Music For Pretty People and their third LP since reuniting in 2008. Stay on top of the series by subscribing to the Milkmen’s YouTube channel. As the band promises on YouTube, “Tune in for the most most electrifying musical round-table since XTC’s ‘Which pudding is best’ debate.” Here’s the first installment, in which Rodney Anonymous badgers his bandmates to name their favorite soundtrack album. To help bide the time, they’ve also launched a new weekly video series in which they’ll answer “big questions.” The Dead Milkmen are back in the studio, working on the band’s first new album in six years and the follow-up to 2017’s Welcome to the End of the World EP.
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