New Dead Pioneers? Oh yes, more punch from Gregg and his gang, no holdsbared, straight in there, a band who we do believe got their very first UK coverage via these fractured pages, this is no time for waving our own flag though, no one needs flags, no one needs any of that, no one needs any of what they’re shouting about, no one needs those unprincipled ego nihilists or any of that rebranded hate that being casually pushed these day, but then it’s nothing new. We like Dead Pioneers, we’ve said it many times, we’ve given them out airtime, our page time, we like what they say, and yes, they don’t hold back but then, we porably past the point of holding back now….
The press release;
| “Dead Pioneers, the Indigenous fronted band from Denver, thump back into action this week with one of their most enraged, powerful and important pieces of work yet. As the upsurge of the far right and white supremacists continues to rise and come out of hiding, Dead Pioneers are ready to fight back with new single ‘Nazi Teeth’, the first track to be lifted from their forthcoming third album, further details to follow…” |
| “While unfortunate that it needs to be done, we’ll never shy away from calling out the elephant in the room,” states frontman Gregg Deal. “Although we didn’t expect this elephant to be the revival of fascists on Amerikkkan soil. Maybe we should have. Frustrated and angry, ready and willing to fight, it’s not lost on us that the need to write a song like this or say these words out loud is grim, ironic, and disconcerting. Nevertheless, here we are, and we’re here to do it.” |
Some Cheap Perfume…
| “The new Dead Pioneers single features a fiery vocal collaboration from Stephanie Byrne of Colorado feminist punk band Cheap Perfume, reconnecting with their fantastic 2016 song It’s Okay To Punch Nazis Stephanie’s voice breaks through the song, doubling down on confronting white supremacists throughout the world. “We are witnessing in real time the violent and horrifying overextension of this administration, while many of our brothers and sisters have been suffering at the hands of white supremacy and colonialism for generations,” says Stephanie. “Nazi teeth is a call to action to hold the line with your friends, family, and community. Keeping Nazis down keeps us all free.” “The United States of Amerikkka is in disarray, and ‘Nazi Teeth’ is not just our answer to what we’re seeing and experiencing in the streets of the so-called land of the free, but a call to action, fighting the continuing manifestation of forces our grandparents and great grandparents fought some 81-plus years ago,” continues Gregg. “It should be obvious, but for some people it seems this needs spelling out: Fuck Nazis, Fuck Fascism, Fuck ICE, Fuck Pedos, and Fuck Trump and his administration. If violence is the only language they speak, it’s okay to punch Nazi teeth.” |
“Dead Pioneers have never been afraid to use their art as a vehicle to express their beliefs and anger at the current political landscape in America. Over two albums – their self-titled debut in 2023 and ‘PO$T AMERICAN’ from last year, the band have concocted a unique blend of spoken word and hypnotic post-punk, mixed with the fury and anger of real punk rock”. |
Here comes some Bandcamps….
Here, this is what you need, Cheap Perfume’s 2025 album…
Dead Pioneers UK tour dates are here, they kick off in Bristol on Feb 26th, take in Manchester and Leeds before hitting London and The Camden Underworld on March 1st (wonder if we’re still banned from the damn Underworld?). Not so much a UK tour as much as a small part of a bit of England tour then, things like this really annoyed me when I was a tongue-in-cheek kid growing up in Wales and the Indigenous people of that land were buring the (holiday) houses of the invading…
Dead Pioneers don’t really need us these days, here’s some coverage from back when they probably did…
Previously
THE ORGAN 