The Dead Milkmen Release New EP

Philly punk icons The Dead Milkmen are pleased to announce their new EP, Welcome to the End of the World, out now on The Giving Groove. For nearly 35 years, the Milkmen have been happily skewering pop culture and confounding critics with their smart, satirical brand of punk, amassing a huge cult following with the hit singles ‘Bitchin’ Camaro’ and ‘Punk Rock Girl’. Welcome to the End of the World delivers the Dead Milkmen’s trademark twisted humour, along with some dark underlying elements that will creep in to your consciousness if you pay close enough attention. “You're either going to buy it or not,” warns frontman Rodney Anonymous. “If you don't buy it, don't blame us when you get eaten by wolves, because this EP will be the only thing standing between you and the wolves."

The six tracks run the gamut of weird and wild—from the spooky, Ramones-influenced lead single ‘Only the Dead Get Off at Kymlinge’, a ghost story about the haunted trains terrorizing passengers on the Stockholm Metro; to ‘Battery-Powered Rat’, a jangly instrumental about two popes, a chess game, and a rat at the Vatican. Musically, the record draws on industrial influences, with a strong beat-driven aesthetic. “It's a pretty good representation of the different styles of things that we do,” says drummer Dean Clean. “It's got some sort of heavy stuff and some groovy, almost dance-oriented stuff—which is fun to say.”

Welcome to the End of the World was recorded at Sine Studios in Philadelphia and Forge Recording in Oreland, Penn., and mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Avatar Studios in New York City. Following The Giving Groove’s model of donating one half of all profits to music charities, The Dead Milkmen will donate 50 percent of album proceeds to Girls Rock Philly.