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The Dead Milkmen timeline (EN)

2023
Album Quaker City Quiet Pills released

On June 9, 2023, The Dead Milkmen released the LP Quaker City Quiet Pills.

2021
Publishes over 150 YouTube videos

From 2021 through 2025 The Dead Milkmen published over 150 videos on YouTube. The general format has each member giving their thoughts on a particular question. They take turns deciding what the weekly question is. This is typically followed by another round where they give a general recommendation.

2017
Joins Giving Groove label

In July 2017, The Dead Milkmen joined with philanthropic record label the Giving Groove.

2014
Pretty Music for Pretty People released

The band released Pretty Music for Pretty People , their tenth studio album, on October 7, 2014. The following year, SRA Records issued their split 7-inch with the 1980s Philadelphia hardcore band Flag of Democracy (also known as F.O.D.)

2012
First two limited-run singles released

In late 2012, they released “Dark Clouds Gather Over Middlemarch” and “Big Words Make the Baby Jesus Cry”, the first two installments in a series of limited-run singles. This was also the year they appeared on nerdcore rapper MC Lars ‘ EP, Edgar Allan Poe EP , for a new…
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2011
Album The King in Yellow released

They spent the following two years composing new material before entering the recording studio late in 2010. On March 19, 2011, a new album, The King in Yellow , was released in digital form on the band’s website, with a self-released CD following shortly thereafter.

2008
Reunion performances after memorial shows

In late 2008, the band reunited to play their first performances since the Schulthise memorial shows, with Stevens again on bass. After two back-to-back warm-up shows in Philadelphia, including one billed under the pseudonym Les Enfants Du Prague, they played the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas . Following…
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2004
Tribute shows following Schulthise’s death

The surviving members reunited for two consecutive shows in November 2004 at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia, with Dan Stevens of The Low Budgets playing bass. The shows were intended to pay tribute to Schulthise, and proceeds were donated to a variety of mental health organizations and to Studenica Monastery…
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2003
Reissue Now We Are 20

In 2003, the band issued Now We Are 20 , a repackaging of their self-released Now We Are 10 retrospective CD from 1993. They also collected their music video output and released it on the Philadelphia In Love DVD. Talks of reunion shows briefly emerged, but ended when Schulthise died…
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1998
Schulthise moves to Novi Sad, Serbia

Schulthise attended Indiana University to study Serbo-Croatian language , literature, history, and culture. In 1998 he moved to Novi Sad , Serbia, where he taught English. His writing was published several times in Svetigora , the magazine of the Serbian Orthodox Church . He hoped to contribute to the country’s…
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