Friday, February 15th, 2008

Attention Citizens . . . The Peelers have been in cryogenic suspension for the long cold Chicago winter . . . It is rumored that top government scientists will attempt a thaw-out of the in-famous quintet to play the grand opening of the Bottom Lounge in Chicago.

Stay Tuned Peelers Fans . . .

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Monday, August 20th, 2007

The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena: the Videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television.

--- Dr. Brian O'Blivion

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Saturday, August 11th, 2007

That's right your favorite & lovable fuzzed-out garage-punks have finally sold out to the man!!! That means we are now only semi-obscure, as opposed to totally obscure!!!! Check out the iTunes store and search under The Peelers or Let's Detonate (our latest album title).

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Saturday, August 11th, 2007

The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena: the Videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television

--Dr. Brian O'Blivion

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Monday, July 23rd, 2007

We're home!!!!! Myself and the band would like to thank everyone who came out to the shows, rocked out, and put us up in your beautiful flats!!!! We met some really cool new heads on our tour and you know who you are!!!! Cheers!!!! Time to eat salad!!!~!

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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Ap Wire: This Just In:

Jefferson Airplane held on runway for security reasons . . .

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Friday, June 15th, 2007

Star Date 06.15.07

Dear citizens of the interplanetary rock and roll underground:

We have new sub-space transmissions to share with the world. A 6 song album is in the can and will be for sale
at our shows during our west coast tour. We can't wait to transmit our sonic action to you . . . the interstellar
rock and roll citizenry!!!!

Posted by Adam

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

The Peelers - www.beercanrecords.com/ThePeelers.htm
Let's Detonate! (released 2006)
Beercan Records - www.beercanrecords.com
Chicago's The Peelers play a brand of rock that blends old school rock snarl and punk rock attitude, that is fun, upbeat and sometimes just plain crazy! It's great! You can just feel that this band has a lot of fun with their music and their live shows. Often throughout this disc, the band sounds like the Blue Meanies... Crazy non-sensical rock n roll meant to move your ass and jump around with glee and abandonment! Quite simply this is twenty-first century good time punk rock music that won't let you down. The track listing is seemingly mistitled, or in the wrong order, because I quickly lost track of titles of songs... But I can say this much, "Sadr City" is a great and excitable track that will have fist in the air and shouting along by every crowd that sees the band live. Later "Immoral Minority", a blast of frustration at the FCC among others, is a treasure to be heard. The band is just full of energy on this album, that helps separate the band from any of the contemporaries in the greater Chicago area. I state it enough, The Peelers are just a fun band to listen to... Everything about The Peelers reveals them as incredibly talented, and a down to earth bunch of guys that can offer a solid dance party of rock n roll punk. It's no wonder these guys were voted best new band in a Chicago paper... The rest of us need to be indoctrinated by the loud and catchy sounds, that make The Peelers one of the best alternative bands out there. -MG

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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

We'll also have a six song release for the tour!!!! All razor-sharp cover tunes by your favorite obscure rock masters!!!

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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Here are the new dates for our Left Coast tour!!!! Can't wait to see you all at the shows!!!!

Yeah!!!!!

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Sunday, March 18th, 2007

A new reivew from Rock Press http://www.rockpress.com.br

We love Brazil!!!!

THE PEELERS
Let's Detonate!
(Beercan Records)

Poderoso rock garageiro combinando a sujeira característica com ótimas melodias vocais, lembrando algo feito nos anos 80 por gente como Barracudas - boas referências não faltam aqui. Na bagagem, além de shows ao lado de Bellrays, Vibrators e Paybacks, os rapazaes levam também um disco anterior produzido por Tim Kerr. Let's Detonate! nos transporta através do túnel do tempo do rock'n'roll feito com selvageria, autenticidade e baixo saturado. Aperte o "play" e tente ficar parado com "Android Girl", muito bom. Marcos Barrence

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Sunday, March 4th, 2007

From the Fabulous Scumfeast Zine!!!


The PEELERS – Let's Detonate CD

This five-piece band from Chicago has enough power to be considered an alternative energy source. They sound like the DAMNED crossed with the DIDJITS. I'm thinking this could've come out in the late 90s when high energy Punk was making the rounds. Then I read their bio and no shit, their drummer is an ex-GAZA STRIPPER. Well there's the Rick Sims connection I was thinking about while listening to this the first time. 11 songs on this disc all clocking in at less than 30 minutes. I'll bet you they've blown a lot of somewhat "famous" bands off the stage. If this CD is any indication, their shows are probably considered legendary already. Great stuff and they even do a MULLENS cover which just shows you they got taste to boot. Wolf

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Friday, January 12th, 2007

A review from our lovely friends in the Great White North!!!!

THE PEELERS – Let's Detonate (Beer Can Records) Rock n' roll punk at it's finest, I'd say… Yup, that's how I'd describe The Peelers, a band that hails from Chicago, IL, and is not afraid to step it up and get to down business (musically, that is). With such colourful, raw vocals, abrasive guitars and powerful drums, this band holds nothing back. I actually found it quite reminiscent of some punk from the late 70's, with their in your face, devil-may-care attitude. I really must say that I enjoyed this disc quite thoroughly. The Peelers seem to have a genuine energy about them, and though I do think that energy might translate better in a live show, unfortunately this band doesn't look little it'll be heading out to the winter wonderland that is Edmonton anytime soon, so I guess I'll just have to settle for their CD. – Bryana Robinson – www.askewreviews.com

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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Ah yes, Les Peelers have some German fans!!!

Review: LET'S DETONATE CD (beercanrecords.com)
Artist: PEELERS
Ox-Fanzine / Ausgabe #69
Im Booklet sieht einer der beiden Gitarristen echt fast original aus wie Wolfgang Niedecken, was zum Glück aber kein schlechtes Omen ist, denn ganz im Gegensatz zu den Kölner Schnarchnasen spielen die PEELERS druckvollen, punkigen Rock'n'Roll, nicht zu fett produziert und mit vielen netten Gitarrenideen und teilweise echt weirden Bass-Sounds. Ich denke mal, Touren mit den RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS, LAZY COWGIRLS, SUPERSUCKERS und so weiter beschreiben wohl auch ganz gut die Einflüsse der Band. Obwohl ich von dem ganzen Hi-NRG-RockZeug, das auch hier mehr als deutlich mitschwingt, eigentlich echt übersättigt bin, muss ich sagen, dass diese Platte echt frisch und unverbraucht klingt und mir deshalb auch gefällt. Sachen gibt's ... Von stampfenden Midtempo-Songs zu schnelleren nach vorne gehenden Stücken kriegt man zwar genau das, was man von solch einem Album erwartet, aber die Gitarren hauen's irgendwie immer wieder raus. Doch, doch ... Warum nur muss ich beim Hören immer wieder an die GENERATORS denken? (28:34) (7) (Alex Strucken)
© by OX-FANZINE / Ausgabe 69

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Friday, January 5th, 2007

A warm and fuzzy review in http://www.trakmarx.com

The Peelers – “Let’s Detonate” (Beercan)
I wonder whether the Peelers know their name means ‘filth’ round where my granddad comes from. Apparently, some bloke called Robert Peel (not the DJ dude) was responsible for getting the British Police force into shape - & ‘Bobbies’ (as granddad still insists on calling them) - were known as Peelers in some circles! All of which leads us to “Let’s Detonate”, the explosive (do you see what I did there?) sophomore LP from Chicago’s Peelers. Cut from the same cloth that brought us The Paybacks & The Bellrays, the Peelers deal us solid, copper-bottomed Punk Rock & Roll. Drums set to bludgeon. Bass set to rumble. Guitars set to stun. Vocals set to growl. “Let’s Detonate” is hi-energy, hi-octane, hi-wasted, hip-shaking, ass-quaking, bottom-liberating, bowel-inducing, sonic-assault & old-school-battery in a chunky knit style.

Guy Debored – tMx 27 – 11/06

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Friday, November 10th, 2006

Yet another fresh review!!!! Read it and weep!!!!




LET'S DETONATE - The Peelers (Beercan Records)
There's much to love about this record on a formidable little Chicago label celebrating its third release, and the band's second album. The Peelers play a timeless form of punk rock that defies categorising.

Their high-tension wire guitars recall post-punk when they're not just tearing down the sonic highway, hell bent for leather. The Peelers have a tough but pliable engine room (driven constantly forward by ex-Gaza Stripper Cory Stateler) and a soulful but in-your-face singer in Neil Bagwell. And of course their songs rock.

Speaking of which, bear with me if I have some titles wrong because I strongly suspect the CD slick tracking is fucked up. Songs like the anthemic "Sadr City" (with its leather-clad Jerry Nolan beat) and the paranoid TV-induced ode to kleptomania, "I Don't Want To", have a nervy energy that puts The Peelers on a different plane to your standard punk thrashers. "The Guru" shows they can do straight-up, boy-wants-girl '60s rock as well as anyone. "Dig Me" is a fuzz-bass propelled lurch.

The album flags a little after such a headstrong opening but the smut-flavoured "Immoral Minority" puts us back on track with a bassline hard enough to bounce a baseball off. The taughtest guitar solo of the album (presumably from main songwriter Adam Scott) is reserved for the closer, "Brand New Thing", a stop-start singalong rocker that hovers over glam territory. If you recognised "Something For Your Love" it's a Mullens cover and the only non-original on the record.

I can't tell you much more about these guys but as the modest and succinct one-sheet says, the record does its own talking. The Peelers did win Best Band in a Chicago street mag in 2002 and have shared stages with the Supersuckers, The Riverboat Gamblers, The BellRays and the Vibrators,which says a lot.

The cover art's a bit cryptic (I would have gone with Mr Potatohead copping a skinning from Jeffrey Dahmer if it'd been my choice) but what's inside is, er, acridly a-peeling. My only other comment is to say 'Book me in for the live show'. I reckon it'd be pretty damn good and a shitload of fun.– The Barman

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Thursday, October 19th, 2006

New Review For Let's Detonate!!!!!!

Marco / NFT
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THE PEELERS- 'LET'S DETONATE' CD
THE PEELERS inject a huge dose of fun and animation into their
straightforward yet interesting punk rock. At times they remind me of a much
more stripped down early ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT…they have that rock 'n' roll
style but not in the lame overblown and obvious way that way too many bands
do it these days. The vocals are great…I like the singers voice a lot and he
does a lot with the vocal lines too. In a way this reminds me slightly of
DEVO too…there's definitely a resemblance in the vocals and even the guitar
work…and that's absolutely fine with me!! The emphasis is definitely on
enjoyment in this record and THE PEELERS certainly communicate that! This is
a real party record and it's been too long since I got one of these to
review! Pure fun punk rock 'n' roll with none of the bullshit affectations.
I've already wrecked my living room to this record 3 times…
Beercan Records
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

We cleaned up the practice space and it looks beautiful!!!! You could eat off of that damn floor!!!! We wouldn't suggest it . . . but you could if you wanted to.

***We have new pics from the tour!!! Check back soon to see what you've only read about!~

****A double 7" of razor hot cover tunes is in the works! We'll be working with Ted "Q" Cho again . . . The master of time and space!

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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Attenzione!!! Attenzione!!! We will be playing WSUM's "Party In The Park" out-door festival.
This riot of music and nifty things to eat is located at James Madison Park in fabulous Madison, WI.
It starts at 11AM!?!?!? We didn't know rock 'n' roll existed before 11PM? We will play around 4PM
but stay tuned for our actual stage time. That is if you actually gave a shit about being punctual.

Posted by Adam

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

We're back in the empire of steel and stone! We had a blast driving down the throat of the American dream (or nightmare . . . which ever you happen to be involved with). See you all on the flip-side.

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Friday, June 2nd, 2006

The New Peelers CD is out!
Its called Let's Detonate.
You can order your very own copy from www.beercanrecords.com

We'll see you on the Road!!! We can't wait!!!

The Peelers

*****Blasting your audio G-spot with the white hot juice
of real punk rock & roll!!!!*****

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