New Bomb Turks - The girl can't help it

What this video is

Released in 1995 during the peak of the American garage punk underground, 'The Girl Can't Help It' is a cover of the 1956 Little Richard/Bobby Troup rock and roll classic, filtered through the New Bomb Turks' high-velocity gunk punk lens. The band, formed in 1990 at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, operated at the intersection of 1970s proto-punk, rockabilly, and raw garage rock, building a reputation on…

Why it matters

The New Bomb Turks were central figures in the mid-90s American garage punk revival, described by Alternative Press as melding 'prole-threat punk bashery and destructo-rock.' This video represents the DIY music video tradition within that scene: performance-first, low-budget, rapid-cut, and…

The director

NYU Tisch School of the Arts film production graduate. Directed dozens of music videos in the 1990s–2000s for indie and alternative acts including Yo La Tengo, Guided By Voices, The Fall, Girls Against Boys, Helium, Wesley Willis, Art Brut, and The Blood…