# Wreck (band)

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Not to be confused with [The Wrecks](/source/The_Wrecks), an alternative rock band from California.

**Wreck** was an [indie rock](/source/Indie_rock) band formed in [Milwaukee, Wisconsin](/source/Milwaukee,_Wisconsin) in 1988, and later based in [Chicago](/source/Chicago). After releasing three albums the band split up in the mid-1990s, with singer/guitarist Dean Schlabowske going on to found [The Waco Brothers](/source/The_Waco_Brothers).

## History

The band was formed in Milwaukee in 1988,[1] and comprised Dean Schlabowske (later of [The Waco Brothers](/source/The_Waco_Brothers)) on [electric guitar](/source/Electric_guitar) and [vocals](/source/Singing), Bart Flores on [drums](/source/Drum_kit), and Keith Brammer (from [Die Kreuzen](/source/Die_Kreuzen) and [Boy Dirt Car](/source/Boy_Dirt_Car)) on [bass guitar](/source/Bass_guitar).

The band's first release was a self-titled [EP](/source/Extended_play) on the [Play It Again Sam](/source/PIAS_Recordings) label in 1989, in association with [Wax Trax!](/source/Wax_Trax!), with [Steve Albini](/source/Steve_Albini) producing.[1][2] The *[Milwaukee Journal](/source/Milwaukee_Journal_Sentinel)'*s Thor Christensen described the EP: "Guitars sound like drums, drums sound like machine guns, and vocalist Schlabowske sounds like he's just swallowed napalm".[2] Debut album *Soul Train* followed in 1990, also produced by Albini, and described by [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic) as "abstract, difficult songs...the work of a band that had no desire to compromise its creative vision".[3] The band released another six songs on the *House of Boris* 12” EP in 1991, by which time Kurt Moore (The Won't, Primasonic) had joined on bass guitar.[4]

The band recorded a second album for Wax Trax! (*Your Monkey's on Fire*), but it remained unreleased apart from advance cassette copies.[1] The band re-recorded it as *El Mundo De Los Niños*, with production from [Jon Langford](/source/Jon_Langford) of [The Mekons](/source/The_Mekons), whom Schlabowske then joined in [The Waco Brothers](/source/The_Waco_Brothers).[5]

Schlabowske later formed Dollar Store.[6]

## Discography

### Albums

- *Soul Train* [LP](/source/Gramophone_record) (1990), [PIAS](/source/PIAS_Recordings)
- *El Mundo De Los Niños* [CD](/source/CD) (1994), [C/Z](/source/C/Z_Records)

### EPs

- *Wreck* 4-song 12" [EP](/source/Extended_play) (1989), PIASTRA
- *House of Boris* (1991), [Wax Trax!](/source/Wax_Trax!)

### Singles

- "Mikey" 7" [single](/source/Single_(music)) b/w "Funk 49" (1992)

## References

1. Proefrock, Stacia "[Wreck Biography](http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wreck-p14754/biography)", [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic), retrieved 2011-07-17

1. Christensen, Thor (1990) "[Soundings](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XcAcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3H4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6410,6184526&dq=wreck+schlabowske&hl=en)[dead link]", *[The Milwaukee Journal](/source/Milwaukee_Journal_Sentinel)*, January 23, 1990, p. 2D, retrieved 2011-07-17

1. Henderson, Alex "[*Soul Train* Review](http://www.allmusic.com/album/soul-train-r22294/review)", [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic), retrieved 2011-07-17

1. Locey, Bill (1991) "MUSIC WRECK Screeching Decibels The three-piece guitar band out of Chicago has hit the road for a tour of the West Coast. It will be pulling in to Isla Vista]", *[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)*, October 17, 1991, p. 12

1. Robbins, Ira "[Waco Brothers/Wreck](http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=waco_brothers)", *[Trouser Press](/source/Trouser_Press)*, retrieved 2011-07-17

1. Guarino, Mark (2007) "On the money Dollar Store open for business", *[Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)](/source/Daily_Herald_(Arlington_Heights))*, August 10, 2007

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