PREORDER: SHIPPING APRIL 2024

SECOND PRESSING.  BLUE SLEEVE. WHITE VINYL.

Essential live garage punk from the Stools, preorder today, shipping in APRIL, dropping like a turd on the cracked cement of your neighbor's sidewalk, Frankenstein monster made of parts of Bo Diddley and the Cramps, the band continuing the manic maniac Detroit tradition (that at least goes back to postwar sides by John Lee Hooker/Eddie Kirkland) and making it their own, chucking a bucket of high octane on the fire and striking up the match, strike up the band, loud and electric, dirty, fast and loud, garage punk grabbing you like a stranglehold, strap that metal cap on tight as a queen's crown and pull the lever that Doctor Frankenstein created to bring the thunder and lightning from the skies down to earth and into the clubs of the Motor City so you can stomp in the oily mud puddles of coolant and Stroh's beer and get the shock waves to wake you up.  If this don't crankstart your engine and get your Mopar going, you might as well give it up and give up the ghost. -- winch (green noise records)

Born out of a manic desire to make cathartic music, The Stools (Will Lorenz, Krystian Quint, Charles Stahl) are a blues-punk trio bursting out of Detroit, MI. Shortly after forming, they began garnering a cult-following thanks to their explosive live performances. With their reputation growing, the group was picked up by Third Man Records for their dynamite "When I Left" seven-inch, which helped bring the group's turbo-charged garage to a wider audience.

The Stool's most recent release, a live album recorded at Hamtramck's sacred Outer Limits Lounge, documents one of the most blistering rock and roll sets you'll ever hear. All night attendees slam danced their asses off to the raw noise produced by the trio. The bar's energy was nothing short of a boozed-up, adrenaline-filled blowout. The ecstatic anticipation for the next verse of "Milk River Blues" or the hand-clapping "Coney Loose" are just a few highlights from this career-spanning gig. In between the band's sonic blasts, you can hear passionate fans uncontrollably roar with joy and rage.

Originally, "Live at Outer Limits" was issued as a cassette on Painter's Tapes, drummer Charles Stahl's label which is home to some of the region's best bands. The artwork features vibrant photography from Detroit punk duo 208's Shelby Say.

So, listeners, consider yourselves lucky you get to hear this. Very rarely do such mythic gigs get a proper recording. In this case, we're blessed with a killer high-fidelity mix that lets you relive a night fans lost themselves in pure, pulsing R'N'R... the kind that only exists in Detroit, Michigan. Most of all, in a year deprived of live music, this record is a reminder of what it's like to feel truly alive.