Live at the Empty Bottle

An earth-moving night in Chicago, 30 crazy years ago, caught hot on tape and finally unleashed! Teengenerate were a force to be reckoned with in the ’90s garage punk underground and with their string of classic singles and LPs, the Midwest was just Starved for these heathens to break our minds wide open. And they did, and some of us were just “never the same.” Is this how Hozac started Yes, this was The seed. Just an awe-inspiring brute force of punk purity, slashing through incredible covers of The Kids, Pagans, and Fun Thing and sowing the seeds of obscure punk obsessions to no end with their savage treasure map of sick sounds. The heat, the power, the rage and the euphoria, it just doesn’t always align like it did when Fink and Fifi took the stage. Sure enough, it was on this day 30 years ago that our minds were blown apart and our eyes were opened and a life-changing rock’n roll performance that commemorates the 50th release on the Hozac Archival subsidiary. Secretly recorded by Ken White, the Brides’ right hand man, and mastered by Tim Warren of Crypt Records for maximum authenticity, Live at the Empty Bottle just explodes out of the grooves and will level anyone within earshot, just like it did when Teengenerate desecrated Chicago twice on the same night (check out their VML Live at the Fireside Bowl 7″ too!), exactly 30 years ago today!