Description

Sound description: Imagine a band with the the energy of The Unseen and the Exploited, the presence of the Sex Pistols and the Dead Boys, and the simplicity of the Ramones, Crass, and early Black Flag.

Influences: The Ramones, The Exploited, cigarettes, cartoons, The Forgotten, The Unseen, flea markets, The Virus, Sham 69, yard sales, thrift stores, Total Chaos, rockabilly, The Dead Milkmen, alcohol, Murder City Devils, Devo, smoking bans, shots of whiskey, Violent Offense, Rancid, The Cheats, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, surf rock, pornography, The Casualties, Oi!, psychobilly, Sonic Youth, streetpunk, Monster, Violent Femmes, shows, Misfits, Nightmare Mode, Infa Riot, boobies, Agnostic Front, Sadaharu, garage, Fugazi, Minor Threat, beer, Black Flag

Genres

Ghetto Rock, Punk

Related links

• Dead City Dealers and Turbo Lovers at the Royal Oaks Photogallery
• DCD MySpace
• Official DCD Site

History

Hailing from the rural outskirts of New Castle, Pennsylvania, in an area affectionately known as Zombieland, the Dead City Dealers are a five-piece sucker punch to all of the mediocre rock acts currently dominating the local club circuit.

Let's just get one thing straight: DCD are a punk band. Yes, that's right, punk rock, and we're not talking about bands like Good Charlotte, Lit, New Found Glory, or even Green Day. DCD is not a pop band. Nothing we write is intricate in the least. We are simplicity at its finest, and unapologetically so. DCD's power lies in it's energy and strength as a unit. We play 3 or 4 chords per song. Sometimes more, but rarely. The drummer bashes out four-on-the-floor beats, and the two guitarists play in a tuning designed for a monkey to play. But from the first chord, it's a wall of beautiful noise that you swear might fall to pieces at any moment, but it never does. It just keeps on coming.

We play for the love of doing it, and to entertain the people who love what we're doing as much as we do. Not for money, not for fame, but to get as many people as we can into our music and hopefully never let them down.

Musicians