15 Aug 2025
“Lachrymose dance music” duo Vempire, featuring occasional Almost Punk Enough podcast host and TGEFM contributor Mike Elfers, deliver The New Invincible.
This latest full-length comes nearly 1 year to the day of their debut record Your Steps. The record is a combo of studio tracks and, befitting the genre, alternate remixes featuring artists like Permadeaf (Omaha, NE,) Benjamin Gear X (Lincoln, NE,) Revolution, I Love You (Philadelphia, PA,) Toilet Rats (Minneapolis, MN,) and Candid Black (Canada.).
The New Invincible shows the pair’s continued growth and vulnerability in spite of, or perhaps in response to the album title.
Bad Dad (occasionally called Ed) has been on the periphery of the punk and punk-adjacent scene for over twenty years. While many contributors to this site have musical experience and talent, Ed’s musical claim to fame comes from his time in arguably the most punk rock Blockbuster Video district in NJ where he worked alongside members of Blanks 77, Best Hit TV and Brian Fallon. He is more than just an awful father to his 2 daughters, he is also a dreadful husband, a subpar writer, a terrible dresser and has a severe deficiency in all things talent… but hey, at least he’s self-aware, amirite?
Check out the pathetic attempts at photography on his insta at https://www.instagram.com/bad_dad_photography/