Archive for Brokedowns

Pet Sounds #75: Brokedowns’ Drum Kit Player Can’t Get Enough of His Kitty Cats

Posted in Features, Interviews, Pet Sounds with tags , , on 12/16/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

If you’re unfamiliar with the Brokedowns, a punk band out of Chicago, than shame on you. Less than three weeks ago, the band’s irrepressibly good-natured and good-humored guitarist/vocalist, Kris Megyery, bravely participated in our On Tyranny series, informing us how he had personally witnessed despicable ICE raids at his workplace. He also agreed to speak with The Bad Penny because the Brokedowns’ new record, Let’s Tip the Landlord, which just came out a few weeks ago through Red Scare Industries.

During the same interview, Megyery informed us that the Brokedowns’ drummer, Mustafa Daka, has limitless love for his pets, making him an ideal candidate for the Bad Penny’s other popular series, Pet Sounds. Megyery’s claims proved to be very well-founded, as Daka got back to us speedy, ready to gush over his cats.

“My precious angels, sisters Ava and Olive … are my favorite topics to talk about!” he gushed during an email exchange.

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On Tyranny: Brokedowns Guitarist Says ‘Even Right-Wingers Can’t Abide ICE Brutalizing’ His Laborer Co-Workers in Chicago

Posted in Features, Interviews, On Tyranny, On Tyranny with tags , , , , , , , on 11/26/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

It’s impossible to let a minute elapse without smiling during a conversation with the irrepressibly good-natured and good-humored Kris Megyery, guitarist/vocalist for Chicago punk band the Brokedowns. Except, that is, when he divulges how his fellow contractors are having to work through the night and on weekends due to their well-founded fears of ICE raids, which he has personally witnessed.

Learn, reflect and laugh during a wide-ranging conversation in the latest installment of The Bad Penny‘s On Tyranny series, which focuses on how artists are coping with Authoritarian America. And pick up a copy of the Brokedowns’ album Let’s Tip the Landlord, which just came out Friday on Red Scare Industries (also home to yesterday’s On Tyranny participants Elway), on their Bandcamp page.

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New Releases Nov. 21: Suncraft, Brokedowns, Grouper, Major Lazer, Kesha, Shores of Null and Convocation (Updated 11:15 a.m. MT)

Posted in MP3s, New Releases with tags , , , , , on 11/21/2025 by Kurt Orzeck
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Suncraft’s Welcome to the Coven (All Good Clean)

Aksak Maboul – Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977) (La Bascule/ Crammed Lab)

Arny Margret – I Miss You, I Do: Sjáumst Deluxe Edition (One Little Independent Records)

Bicycle Inn – Long in the Tooth

Big Bill – Sick Myth (TODO)

Birch – Vicious Mind (Tonzonen/Cargo)

Brokedowns – Let’s Tip the Landlord (Red Scare)

Danko Jones – Leo Rising (Perception)

Darktribe – Forgotten Reveries (Scarlet)

Depravity – Bestial Possession (Transcending Obscurity)
• free Bandcamp download

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