Afterbirth Cartoons

Afterbirth Cartoons is a steady explosion of sardonic beat punk straight outta Phoenix . Alvah, Galatea, and Mathaniel were 90’s kids who grew up on a steady diet of Powerpuff Girls, Ninja Turtles, Heathcliff, and Captain Planet which turned them into stoner, queer deviants and social justice warriors who are fighting the good fight through three-chord punk fucking rock. They are influenced by everything from Nirvana and the Dead Kennedys to Tenacious D and the Beat Generation. Their music is straight-forward, earnest, and biting as they strike out at everything wrong with the world.
Their EP “1939” consists of 4 tracks and 15 minutes of flipping the bird to capitalism, war, fascists, and the stupidity of society as a whole.
Their new album “Sick Day” was released on the first day of 2022. A concept album about hating your job and calling in sick to waste the day watching TV. Each track is a different TV timeslot throughout the day and each song and skit skewers television mainstays with sarcastic parodies of everything from daytime talk shows, public service announcements and commercials to the news. There is also a straight-up punk rock cover of the “Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats”. The album is rounded out with traditional evening “sign off” with Afterbirth Cartoons’ take on the National Anthem. The whole album is a call to action for the labor movement happening in real time. So call in sick to work/school and give it a listen or three.
- Seth Pederson