Yuppie Pricks returned in 2014 with Appetite For Consumption , a more hard rock flavored album with covers of songs from the Sex Pistols and Sir Mix-A-Lot .
Following an extended hiatus, the Yuppie Pricks released their third full-length disc in 2008, Balls , on Chicken Ranch Records, an album where “the irony drips like bacon fat,” “to negate everything you ever thought about punk,” and which “recontextualizes classics from punk’s ever-growing classic history (Buzzcocks, Big Boys! etc.)…
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Along with the more aggressive sound came a transition from a four-piece to a five-piece line-up, with bassist Preston Hetherington switching over to second guitar, and the band recruiting Ricky the Intern from the ‘Zero Skills Employment Agency’ (according to their bio) on bass. With last-minute addition Trey Robles (ex-Hard…
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A return performance at SXSW 2004 followed, during which the band was courted by former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra , and subsequently signed on with his Alternative Tentacles imprint, who released 2005’s Brokers Banquet . Recorded at Bubble Studios by Chris ‘Frenchie’ Smith (ex- Sixteen Deluxe , Young Heart…
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Following numerous local gigs and an appearance at SXSW in 2003, drummer Darin Murano exited the band, due to a case of aggravated tendinitis . Murano was temporarily replaced by Ken Dannelley (ex-Stretford, Hamicks), but it was not until British expatriate Nigel Smythen-Wesson arrived that a permanent replacement was found.
Formed in 1999 by self-styled pharmaceutical business magnate Trevor Middleton and third-generation divorce lawyer Deuce Hollingsworth, the Yuppie Pricks recorded their self-produced, self-released debut, Initial Public Offering .