Boy Dirt Car

40 years of American Noise and experimentation. Founded in Milwaukee in 1981, Outlaws, Outsiders, and Artifacts have played a part of Boy Dirt Car from the very inception. Along with the nightmarish chaos and improvisation that has exposed evidence of a decaying culture in 1980s abandoned soundscapes. These sounds have now been replaced with an artifact that echoes the final vision of destruction of the western world.

Boy Dirt Car and our joyful noise have continued. The participants have changed as the voyage has continued long past our launch in 1981. A great debt of gratitude is owed to everyone living or dead who has contributed to Boy Dirt Car: performers, recordists, listeners, drivers, poets, barbers, filmmakers, disc jockeys, critics, fellow travelers, short order cooks, con men, gas station attendants. All friends and foes alike. Boy Dirt Car has always been composed of outsiders, we will always be outsiders. Now is the only thing that is real.

Past Shows


Mar
18
th
2022
7th St Entry
Mar
18
th
2022
7th St Entry

The Songs of Grant Hart

A Tribute featuring performances from TEENAGE STRANGLER, THE RANK STRANGERS, RYAN SMITH, MARS CONDO, GIRLSES MOMS, TINY TRACES, ROB THE CARPENTER, and BOY DIRT CAR
Dec
10
th
2021
7th St Entry
Dec
10
th
2021
7th St Entry

Boy Dirt Car

with Falcon Arrow and Trash Catties
May
15
th
2020
7th St Entry
May
15
th
2020
7th St Entry
Cancelled

Boy Dirt Car

with Falcon Arrow and Trash Catties
Mar
18
th
2020
7th St Entry
Mar
18
th
2020
7th St Entry
Cancelled

The Songs of GRANT HART

with Boy Dirt Car, Girlses Moms, Sons of Gloria and more!
Mar
18
th
2019
7th St Entry
Mar
18
th
2019
7th St Entry

The Songs of GRANT HART

An Evening of Tributes 3/18/19
with Ryan and Pony, Almost Every Tuesday, rank strangers and more!

More Shows

Dec
5
th
Turf Club

Little Fevers

with Pleasure Horse, Betty Won't and Echo Parlor
May
7
th
Palace Theatre

Amyl and The Sniffers

with Sheer Mag
Mar
23
rd
First Avenue

Tobe Nwigwe

Apr
12
th
Turf Club

Visions of Atlantis