I can’t tell you precisely how I came across URBN DK, but I’ve thought of them often since I first felt the creeping dread of “World Gone Crazy,” off the Chicagoland punk band’s 1982 self-titled seven-inch. URBN DK were hardly the only local punks to saturate their music with depravity—Deerfield’s the Mentally Ill, for instance, […]
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Silicone Prairie sound like new wave played at the wrong speed
Hyperactive Kansas City punk act Silicone Prairie recently released an EP that includes a cover of notorious Chicago band the Mentally Ill.
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Obnoxious punks the Mentally Ill made history with ‘Gacy’s Place’
These Deerfield maniacs debuted in 1979 but didn’t play live till 2007, when they helped celebrate a documentary about early Chicago punk.