CityBeat: Ohio Garage Punk Greats New Bomb Turks are Back on the Road and Coming to Newport

February 4th, 2020 in Cincinnati's CityBeat:

New Bomb Turks first roared out of Ohio’s own college-centric capital city in 1990, making its mark with an amped-up sonic storm — a tornado of loud, no-frills Rock & Roll served up with an undeniable penchant for twisting bare-bones guitar riffs into a frantic and careless racket. It got burped out as brash Garage Punk and — not that they took time to notice — the Turks unwittingly drafted a fresh page of Punk Rock history in the process. 

They’d go on to release eight albums, a compilation LP, three EPs and more than 20 singles over the course of a decade. In doing so, the Turks paved the way for a litany of late-’90s Garage Punk outfits to find Rock radio success in their wake. 

But while mainstream fame on that level eluded the Turks themselves, they were (and still are) regarded as preeminent members of an underground garage-band society devoted to preserving Punk’s original primal flame, staunch supporters of Rock’s early raw roots — the stuff that made the music seem so dangerous and carefree in the first place.