Verböten have shared new single “No More Indecision” from their first-ever album, Verböten, Available October 4th. “I wrote ‘No More Indecision’ on January 1st of this year,” says Jason Narducy. “The music sounded defiant and, because it was the first day of the year, I was thinking about what’s ahead. The lyrics came quickly when I thought about the total denial of climate change by conservatives and the infuriatingly slow pace of meaningful legislation by democrats. The song is us screaming for real change.” Ahead of the Verböten’s release, Verböten will play their first show since 1983 at Riot Fest in Chicago on Saturday, September 21st.

The Evanston, IL punk band was formed in 1982 by guitarist/singer Jason Narducy (Bob Mould Band, Superchunk, Sunny Day Real Estate), singer Tracey Bradford, bassist Chris Kean, and drummer John Carroll— Formed in 1982 by four kids ages 10 to 14. Dave Grohl says witnessing their band practice at his cousin, singer Tracey Bradford’s house, inspired him to start writing original songs. In 2020, a musical about the band was critically acclaimed and award winning. Now, 41 years after they disbanded, they’ve reunited to release their debut album Verböten, 12 brand-new tracks as a testament to the miraculous power of making music with your friends. Recorded at Chicago’s Electrical Audio, Verböten comes in at just under a half hour, and serves as a document of four lifelong friends once again finding the freedom and joy of the music that brought them together.

During their short but influential career, Verböten featured Bradford, Narducy, Kean, and original drummer, Zack Kantor. After they amicably broke up in 1983, only Narducy stayed in music, who fronts the band Split Single and is the touring bassist in the Bob Mould Band and Superchunk, and touring guitarist with Sunny Day Real Estate. Despite his musical pedigree, it was Bradford, a hospice nurse, and Kean, a public school teacher, who floated the idea for a reunion. “It never even occurred to me that they would want to reunite because they hadn’t played music in four decades,” says Narducy. Instead of revisiting material Narducy wrote when he was 11 years old, the band set out to write entirely new songs. “This is the punk rock record we always wanted to make,” says Narducy. “That’s what we wanted to do as kids—we just weren’t able to do it. This is how I imagined this band would have grown if we had stayed a band.”

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