# Zip Code Rapists

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**Zip Code Rapists** were an avant-garde band active in the 1990s. The band was composed of guitarist John Singer and singer [Gregg Turkington](/source/Gregg_Turkington). The band is known for their confrontational, deconstructionist, absurd live performances, as well as their bizarre, more fleshed-out recordings. During the group's fake break-up in 1994, Singer and Turkington formed competing spin-off bands, the Zip Code Revue and The Three Doctors Band, presumably attempts to siphon off Zip Code Rapists fans for themselves.[1]

In 1996, after a Japanese tour with Faxed Head, the Zip Code Rapists ceased performing or recording. Gregg Turkington has since gone on to perform as the [anti-comedy](/source/Anti-comedy) personality [Neil Hamburger](/source/Neil_Hamburger). John Singer continues to make music in Vermont. The Zip Code Rapists reunited for a handful of shows in California and in Canada in 2005–2006, followed by a retrospective CD release on the Eabla label in 2009. In 2015 they did a one-off show in Brooklyn, New York.

## Discography

The band released the following albums:[2]

### Studio albums

- *Sing and Play the Three Doctors and Other Sounds of Today* (1992, Amarillo / 2009, Eabla)

### EPs

- *The Man Can't Bust Our Music!* (1993, Ectoplasm)
- *Sing and Play the Madator Records Catalog* (1994, Ecstatic Piss)
- *[94124](/source/94124_(EP))* (1995, Amarillo)

### Live albums

- *Live "In Competence" Beast 666*
- *Here at Last... Live!!! Freedom from 2005*

## References

1. ["Zip Code Rapists"](http://www.markprindle.com/zipcode.htm). *Mark's Record Reviews*. Retrieved 2014-10-23.

## External links

- [Zip Code Rapists](https://myspace.com/84012623) on [Myspace](/source/Myspace)

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