Capital Punishment

You may remember that Capital Punishment, Ben Stiller's high school band from the early-'80s, had their self-released 1982 debut album, ’Roadkill’, reissued by Captured Tracks. The interest in the record has stirred the creative juices of the band who went back into the studi…

This week: mutant punks The Intelligence, Melbourne, Australia's Terry, a new EP from Jorge Elbrecht (Violens, Lansing-Dreiden), Jane Church (ex-Spires), and Ben Stiller's high school post-punk band (not a joke).

When in high school in New York, Ben Stiller and a couple of his friends formed a "ridiculously weird band" called Capital Punishment. Ben played drums and said on Howard Stern, "We were listening to a lot of Bowie and Eno...