Primitive Broadcast Service

Hello friends,

As many of you know, we lost our dear friend and former road manager Eric Ruth in August. He was 47.

There will be a celebration of life for him on Saturday October 3, 2pm - 5pm at Y-Not 2, 706 E Lyon St in Milwaukee. We hope to play some music for him, for you, and his family at the gathering. Eric was with us through it all, from the beginnings of the band as a supporter to eventually becoming road manager. He even covered some of the costs of pushing 'Monsters' (our 3rd album released in June) out into the world - that's how much he cared about our noisy, dissonant musical adventure. He just wanted everyone to finally be able to hear the record. He will forever be missed.

Here's a nice review of 'Monsters' at IDIOTEQ that gets into the song stories of the album in detail. https://idioteq.com/milwaukee-noise-rockers-primitive-broadcast-service/

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TODAY IS A BANDCAMP FRIDAY - No fees on sales until midnight PST.

Direct link to buy 'Monsters' if you're so inclined: https://primitivebroadcast.bandcamp.com/album/monsters

Do you have Colors for Chameleons? We still have a few vinyl left for sale and the Compact Disc and digital formats.
Https://primitivebroadcast.bandcamp.com/album/colors-for-chameleons

A CD issue of 'Monsters' will be available Oct. 2, 2026.

With heavy hearts,

Your friends in PBS.

MONSTERS, by Primitive Broadcast Service 7 track album

In case anyone has forgotten.

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We lost someone special, someone important, our friend and former road manager, Eric Ruth. Eric died unexpectedly last week in Iowa, where he had moved toward the end of 2024, hoping to find a healthier lifestyle than the one he knew in Milwaukee. We are saddened beyond expression.

I guess we spun around the Midwest four times together, short trips in between. We dodged a tornado just east of Madison, endured never-ending rain and the dystopian freeway of Lower Michigan, got lost in the cornfields of Indiana, trying to find a place called the Eagles Nest. We figured if we could survive all that, we could do anything. We joked about living a Midwestern version of Dante's Inferno, even when it wasn't funny. The Midwest is old, older than we know. We needed Eric to help us navigate it all.

Eric was that person you know who almost always does more than asked. If a touring band needed a place to crash, Eric would offer his place. If we were out of T-shirts before a tour, he would take it upon himself to design a new one and get it to production (thats the shirt he designed in the photo). When our 3rd album, 'Monsters', seemed destined to remain forever an afterthought, Eric insisted on helping to pay for it. This was the Eric Ruth that a lot of people knew. This was who he was.

We are a lucky band of noisy people that Eric chose us, his friends, to help and support, to join in our in our adventure. We dedicated 'Monsters' to him. I wish we could have done more. R.I.P., Eric. 😪

Hey everyone - show alert THIS SUNDAY at Falcon Bowl (in the Falcon Nest), 801 E. Clarke St!!
We'll be helping the 10KCK band celebrate the release of their new album 'hard versions of soft things'.

The album dropped into the world today, July 17, on the 10KCK bandcamp and streamers (link in comments). Here's a note from the band!! 🗒

“Join us for the album release party, July 19th, at the Falcon Nest! Featuring Primitive Broadcast Service, The Yellow Dog Club, Credit Card (all the way from Detroit), and comedy by our good friends Luise Noe and Raegan Niemela -- physical copies of the album will be available then too! A free bag of chips with every ticket, so yes, chips with it.”

Free chips!!! Comediennes!?! Music!! Hell yeah!! Come on out to the Falcon Sunday!! 7:00pm doors. 7:30 start!!

YEZ, it's true, Primitive Broadcast Service does indeed have a website!! I've added a short piece about our video "Dead Horse (Apologies to Emma Lazarus)" and the trail of ICE dead that has continued to grow since we listed the names in the video a few months ago. 😪😞😡
Stay cool in this smoggy heat, people!!
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This video hasn't stopped being relevant this summer as we've seen a new wave of detainments and kidnappings by ICE. This week, they killed again, in Houston. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was his name.

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