Killer Texan garage punk band Wax Museums join up with compatriots Bad Sports bringing tracks from "Eye Times" LP out via Trouble In Mind!

Eye Times, the newest effort from North Texas' lovable misfits The Wax Museums, is out now via Chicago's

Trouble In Mind. An album full of nerdy, sexually frustrated, killer punk anthems, the tracks have been called "brilliantly dumb garage punk" by Vice and "high music for low people" by Impose.

The Wax Museums hit the road with fellow Texan punk rockers Bad Sports for a run of dates this summer. For a preview of what you'll experience on the road, give a listen to album tracks "Tunguska" and "Sunburn" and prepare to get low with the Wax Museums.

Tour dates and love for The Wax Museums below!

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Wax Museums Tour Dates

July 28 - Ajax - Oxford, MS *

w/ Unwed Teenage Mothers
July 29 - 529 - Atlanta, GA *

w/ Brain Flannel, Wymyns Prysyn, Whatever Brains
July 31 - Glen Danzig's House - Nashville, TN *

7" release show
Aug 1 - Bloomington, IN *
Aug 2 - Carabar - Columbus, OH *

w/ Frustrations, Outer Spacist
August 3 - Lager House - Detroit, MI *

w/ Terrible Twos
Aug 4 - Permanent Records Instore - Chicago, IL
Aug 4 - Cal's - Chicago, IL *

w/ Daylight Robbery, Bacon II
Aug 5 - Bayview Brew Haus - Milwaukee, WI *

w/ Heavy Times
Aug 6 - Hill Valley - Minneapolis, MN *

w/ Sleaze, Pleasure Leftists, Cozy
Aug 7 - Replay Lounge - Lawrence, KS *
Aug 8 - Studded Bird - Kansas City, MO *

w/ Mouthbreathers

w/ Bad Sports *

Praise for Wax Museums

Their idiot savant rock is wedged between Milo Aukerman's brilliant simplicity and The Spits savage brilliance. Their music celebrates all things simple, and 97% of the time, that turns out to be a good thing.

Impose

The Wax Museums write fast, sloppy punk songs about any damned thing, chronicling summer's highs and lows with Ramones-esque bravado...the members of the Wax Museums are not anywhere near as stupid as they're pretending to be.
Blurt

Full of bratty numbskull humor, Eye Times features an energetic band of fellas who run through the album’s 13 tracks as if they can’t wait to tackle the next song. That doesn’t mean attitude trumps form here, though, for Wax Museums’ impatient thrash ‘n bash rhythms hold together quite well, and they are supplemented by dramatic stops, the occasional heads-down mid-tempo groover, and some unexpected production touches

Pop Matters

This is a record for the sweaty kids who want to pogo, wear their leather jackets in 90 degree heat and throw cheap beers at the stage. Its a love letter from Wax Museums to Wax Museums and it sounds pretty damn sincere at that.

Raven Sings The Blues

There’s a fine line between stupid and brilliant, and Wax Museums are sitting right on it, grinning like maniacs.
Dusted

It’s such a quick power-driven number that you can’t help but get attached from the moment those drums clash with the guitars in a cacophonous moment of energy and melody. With members from Bad Sports, Silver Shampoo and Mind Spiders, there’s not a reason in the world why this won’t be super awesome.

Austin Town Hall

It's catchy, slightly sloppy and simple. Basically the way punk should be.

Filter

The new Eye Times has been well worth the wait. A little cleaner, slower, and less brain-damaged than the band’s previous output, it’s a tuneful outburst of Dickies-like dementia that drips silly, sweaty summer mischief.

The Onion AV Club

This is the type of shredding punk rock I’ve been missing in my life and to have it blast me in the face on a drizzly Monday morning is the best sort of wake-up call I could hope from the internet.

Sound on the Sound

Wax Museums are back. I guess they couldn’t quite hold out for that ten year Pavement/Blue-style wait. So while they aren’t able to headline festivals/enter Eurovision, they are capable of making brilliantly dumb garage punk. And OK, even though the new record sounds a little more hi-fi and a little less snotty (an Old School to their previous American Pie) they’re still the coolest virgins out there.
Vice

Indeed the 13 tracks on Eye Times, which clocks in at just less than 22 minutes, come off as short, repeated blasts delivered with a snotty Ramones-like efficiency and an attitude reminiscent of early Devo. But it’s not all pure hijinks: the album’s centerpiece, “Bruiser,” could be the punk anthem of the summer.
Agit Reader

Eye Times is downright tuneful when it wants to be. But everybody's gotta grow up sometime, at least a little. So while Eye Times may not be as cathartic a listening experience as their debut album, it's still just as good -- and, with tracks like "Quicksand" and "Nothing to Do," occasionally even better.

Daily Page

The wait for three years was worth it: This complete album is grungy, fun, and might even surprise you.

Pegasus News

More on Wax Museums

Wait, have the Wax Museums MATURED?!?!?! After a 3 year hiatus north TX’s lovable misfits (who share members with The Bad Sports and Mind Spiders) are back with a four- headed thirteen eyed monster of an album that while still slightly awkward, is undeniably focused and endearing. ‘Eye Times’ is a musical step forward with moments of glammy art-rockness that proves once and for all these clowns ain’t just one-joke jerks. ‘Mosquito Enormo’ swarms and stings with it’s way-out delay pedal induced chaos and ‘Bruiser’ proves the Wax Museums still just write killer punk anthems. The charming nerd-o aesthetic that was so prevalent on the early singles and first LP remain, but NOW with added sexual frustration, ‘Breakfast for Dinner’ just very well might be the Wax Museum’s “Me So Horny“ ... or something.

RIYL: Bad Sports, Cheap Time, Icky Boyfriends, Dickies, Devo

Wax Museums' Eye Times at Ridgemont High