The Brokedowns @ Cobra Lounge

A while back, I was sitting at the bar of the now-defunct bottom lounge with a buddy of mine. We went for operation: cliff clavin, who were on some kind of reunion stint, but overheard the brokedowns well enough to get off our asses at the bar and take a look at these guys. After most of the chicago punk rock bands I liked went away around 2001-2003, I suppose it was a matter of time that a group like this would start, sounding like 1996-99 to me. I only wish they were around when the fireside bowl was a hole in the wall. They probably were, just not as a band.

Josh Caterer is an American, Chicago-area musician, best known as the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter of pop-punk band Smoking Popes, which he founded in 1991 with his older brother Matt and younger brother Eli. The band has remained active except for a hiatus between 1998 and 2005. Josh has also written and recorded music with different bands and as a solo artist in a variety of genres, including gospel, blues, rock and pop-punk.