Play The Welders EP, by Bruiser Queen

Play The Welders EP

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1.	P-E-R-V-E-R-T 01:42	buy track
2.	Debutantes In Bondage 02:01	buy track
3.	S-O-S Now 01:42	buy track

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In 1975, a group of teenage friends in Florissant started The Welders—one of St. Louis’ earliest punk bands, and definitely its first all-girl punk band. They have been compared to The Runaways, who released their debut album the following year. But where The Runaways sang about being sexy mamas in their tight blue jeans, The Welders wrote snarky, hilarious songs making fun of the icky guys harassing them on the street, or about being a prude, or the cultural backwardness of the Veiled Prophet. In 1979, after playing around the St. Louis metro area for a few years, they went into the studio and recorded an EP. After the label went bankrupt, the master tapes went down the memory hole, and The Welders—whose ranks over the years included sisters Jane and Caroline Fujimoto, Stephanie von Drasek, Julie Benz, Kelly Draper, Colleen O’Sullivan, and Lyla Turner—called it quits in 1981. - BDR Records

In 2021, a friend of The Welders, Julie Thomas, reached out to Bruiser Queen to play a private birthday party for Stephanie at The Heavy Anchor. Of course, we said yes. Per Julie's request, we learned the three Welders songs represented here and performed them live at the party. We had so much fun playing these timeless punk rock songs, we thought it'd be a waste not to commit our versions to a recording. We then teamed up with Gabe Usery at Encapsulated Studios and did just that!

Extra special thanks to The Welders, Julie Thomas, Jason Rerun, and Gabe Usery. Long live The Welders!

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released January 3, 2022

All songs written by The Welders
and performed by Bruiser Queen

All tracks engineered, mixed, and mastered
by Gabe Usery at Encapsulated Studios - St. Louis, MO

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Bruiser Queen St Louis, Missouri

Garage Pop Rock N Roll duo Bruiser Queen (St. Louis, MO) blend 21st Century punk stomp with 60’s girl group shimmy. Morgan Nusbaum’s vocals & guitar arrive on stage like a Riot Grrrl but bop to the beat of Jason Potter’s huge, dark drumming.

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