Bruiser Queen on the cover of the Riverfront Times

Well look at that! Your pals Bruiser Queen are on the cover of this week's print edition of Riverfront Times. We're featured in Allison Babka's story, Now Here This: Ten St. Louis Bands That Should Be Famous.

Pick up your copy today!

Bruiser Queen presents: The Twelve Bassists of Christmas

Saturday, December 14 2013
at Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO

Bruiser Queen presents:
The Twelve Bassists of Christmas
featuring the World's Largest Tambourine Ensemble
with Middle Class Fashion
and Sleepy Kitty Music

Featured bassists include: Brian McClelland (Middle Class Fashion), Paige Brubeck (Sleepy Kitty), Melinda Cooper (Town Cars), Syrhea Conaway (Syna So Pro), Wade Durbin (Pretty Little Empire), Kevin Schneider (The Blind Eyes), Beth Bombara, Kit Hamon, Matt Harnish (BUNNYGRUNT), Bryan Perry (Burrowss), Celia Shacklett (Fire Dog) and more.

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$10 (or $5 with tambourine)

Maximum RnR "In Your Room / Ms. Everything" 7" Review

BRUISER QUEEN - "In Your Room/Ms. Everything" Fuzzy modern garage rock from this St. Louis duo. The vocals are amazing. They are strong and delicate while also projecting an odd-ish quality to keep it interesting. Parts 60s girl group, part Siouxsie Sioux. Unfortunately it means the music takes a backseat. The songs are catchy and simple, but exist to back up the vocals. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. I like this a lot. (CK) (Certified PR)

"In Your Room / Ms. Everything" Test Pressing Is Here!

Fresh from the desk of Certified PR Records:

The UPS girl FINALLY dropped these off today!

Here's what Rev. Norb thinks:

"Bursting forth from St. Louis with the force of a thousand toasted ravioli, BRUISER QUEEN blends 21st Century garage-punk stomp with 60's girl-group shimmy to create a sound raw enough to blow your speakers, yet sophisticated enough to blow your mind.

“In Your Room,” the A-side of their latest whiz-bang offering on Certified PR Records, melds kitschy, SHANNON & THE CLAMS-like sixties-isms with the earnest, straight-ahead she-rock of modern troopers like THE ETTES, delivering a determined rocker that manages to be hammering without coming off as unskilled, and clever without appearing overly cute.

The flip side, “Ms. Everything,” is a bittersweet and even catchier excursion down the same path, with Morgan Nusbaum's dynamite vocals acting as some manner of magnetic attention beacon over the top of Jason Potter's waves of miscellaneous crunchings -- the type of song that one'd imagine could be a big mainstream hit if it ever fell into the hands of blander practitioners ((at least in a happy, imaginary world where the earning of big mainstream hits is at least rudimentarily merit-based)).

Bruisers and queens alike will dig the six-and-a-quarter minutes of genius contained herein, as BRUISER QUEEN manage to strike the perfect balance between “bruiser” and “queen” whilst never once sounding sonically reminiscent of Dick Afflis putting a hammerlock on Freddy Mercury!"

Order your copy today for a chance to win an autographed test pressing!

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New 7" single on Certified PR Records

CPR029 - Bruiser Queen
"In Your Room" b/w "Ms. Everything" 7", 2013

Friends, we've such exciting news for you! Our next release will be a shiny vinyl single on Certified PR Records out of Florida! It'll be "In Your Room" b/w "Ms. Everything" - 2 tracks on vinyl that will come with an expanded 5 song EP/CD that we recorded in Memphis at 5 and Dime Recording.

We're SO excited to be joining the Certified family and can't wait for you to hear it!

Record Store Day 2013 - Limited Edition SWEARS cassette release on Eat Tapes Records

We will be celebrating Record Store Day 2013 with a new release (kind of) and 2 FREE shows! We'll be releasing 100 copies of our debut album "Swears" on cassette through Eat Tapes Records, with release parties on the 12's: noon at Vintage Vinyl - St. Louis and midnight at Lemmons.

Facebook event - NOON at Vintage Vinyl
Facebook event - MIDNIGHT at Lemmons

St. Louis Magazine - January 2013 issue spotlights Bruiser Queen

Cruisin' For A Bruisin'
The "primal, garagey, punk" sound of Bruiser Queen
By Thomas Crone - St. Louis Magazine

Talking to Jason Potter and Morgan Nusbaum about their band Bruiser Queen is, sure enough, a fun experience. They're enthusiastic not only about their own pursuits, but also in linking St. Louis to other scenes, especially their favorite spot to tour and record, Memphis, Tenn. They're generally upbeat about most things, in fact, punctuating points with exclamations like "That sounds neat!"

The only problem in talking music with the pair is that they end one another's sentences with such regularity that note-taking becomes a near-impossible exercise.

"We're like one person," Nusbaum quips.

As a band, they're like two people, Nusbaum on guitar and vocals, Potter energetically seated at his drum kit. The group started out as a standard four-piece, but when members defected, they simply weren't replaced. For one thing, the principals felt like their sound didn't need the depth or sweetening extra musicians might bring. As evidenced by their outstanding, hook-heavy full-length debut, 2012's Swears, their decision to remain sonically lean wasn't a mistake. It's an album that rocks plenty.

But there's also practicality involved. The band loves to embark on quick weekender trips to shows out of town, when work hours allow. Riding in what Nusbaum refers to as "Adventuremobile" and "Little Vibey," the pair have aced the packing of their touring machine, a veteran Pontiac Vibe.

"It's perfect," Potter says. "Everything fits in the back, and it's got a 110-volt charger. It's got 220,000 miles, but yeah, it cruises. When it dies, I'll buy another one."

Already a busy group, one that's not afraid to break the "one show a month" edict fancied by a lot of original local music groups, the band might get a bit busier in the late winter: It's releasing several cuts from a Memphis recording date, with at least a 45 coming out, and a possible split 45 also spun from that session. On it, Nusbaum includes bass and organ, adding new elements to the band's sound, which Potter sketches out as "stylistically primal, garagey, punk-type stuff."

Both members of the group admit that self-promotion is still the one element that often goes lacking. Songwriting and gigging are constants. As visual artists, they produce their own flyers and collateral materials. They're plenty used to hosting touring bands on their trips into St. Louis, and they've got the air mattress to prove it. To the degree that they're interested in a label relationship, it's solely to continue pushing their sound outward: outta St. Louis and even outta their beloved Interstate 55 corridor.

But it's unsurprising that as a band that pretty much does everything for itself, the group isn't stressing about promotions, with a healthy respect for the straight-to-the-people opportunities that the modern Web allows.

"Our Bandcamp page," Potter says, "has been really good to us. That's been real powerful, real direct. You control the whole thing, the money comes directly to you, and the buyer can download directly there, with no need for special players. It's a really great tool."

For more info, go to bruiserqueenmusic.blogspot.com