Ben Stiller's '80s post-punk band Capital Punishment 🥁🎺🎸 played at the Bowery Ballroom in New York at Jesse Malin & Friends a Benefit for the former D Generation bandmate, Howie Pyro, who is fighting for his life.
Before Ben Stiller was Derek Zoolander or Greg Focker, he was just
another high school student messing around in a garage band.
In the late Seventies, Stiller and a few of his New York City friends,
including frontman Kriss Roebling, who formed the band Capital
Punishment with the future Tropic Thunder actor serving as the group's
drummer.
They self-released one LP, 1982's Roadkill, that was all but forgotten
until Brooklyn record label Captured Tracks announced the album's
reissue this fall.
In a recent interview with Howard Stern, Stiller talked about Capital
Punishment and seemed somewhat amazed that "a real company" would
reissue Roadkill.
Stiller told Stern, "I was in a ridiculously weird band. I was like 15,
16, and my friend in high school, Kriss, started this band. He was the
one who had the talent, he wrote the songs, I was the drummer". / Wochit Entertainment 2015/27/03
Pitchfork is proud to present Roadkill, a new documentary film telling
the surprising and often hilarious story of the band Capital Punishment.
Formed when its members were teenagers, Capital Punishment
self-released a blistering post-punk/industrial album in 1982 before
going their separate ways upon graduation from high school. Frontman
Kriss Roebling’s ancestors built the Brooklyn Bridge. Bassist Peter
Swann went on to become a judge for the Arizona Court of Appeals.
Guitarist Peter Zusi became a professor of Slavic languages. And drummer
Ben Stiller became... Ben Stiller. / Pitchfork 2019/01/07
Mitch Gallagher is on location in New York City with Ben Stiller and Peter Swann to discuss their band, Capital Punishment, the re-release of their cult classic "Roadkill" and the release of their new EP "This is Capital Punishment," as well as their new pro audio company, Useful Audio Arts.
