The Zero Boys are at the Riot Room this Sunday

The Zero Boys are kind of like the ultimate Midwestern punk heroes. The hardcore foursome from Indianapolis – an unlikely birthplace for a punk legend – released its debut, Vicious Circle, in 1982. Though the band never quite achieved the same glorious heights as some contemporaries – the Dead Kennedys and Black Flag – it has remained widely acknowledged as a champion of the movement.

Then, in February 2013, like some sort of jankety phoenix, the Zero Boys rose from the ashes and released a four-song EP called Pro Dirt, their first new music in two decades. Pro Dirt isn’t hardcore, but it’s a bright pop-punk offering from a band that doesn’t really need to prove anything anyway.

Details here. See also: Our interview with Ultraman, St. Louis hardcore act opening for the Zero Boys.