Blab School

Blab School is a post-punk quartet from North Carolina. Their self-titled debut LP came out on Wilmington, NC's Fort Lowell Records in 2024.

Taking philosophical cues from American post-punk bands like the Wipers and Talking Heads, also incorporating the goth-adjacent tones of bands like Joy Division and Killing Joke, and adding the often danceable and joyfully nihilistic aesthetic of 21st-century punk, Blab School makes music that is simultaneously urgent and fun, upbeat and crooked, loud and thoughtful.

Blab School came together after a drummer living in Durham, NC tentatively placed a Craigslist ad in hopes of starting a new band. Thus, the band started as (mostly) strangers from New York, California, and North Carolina: Guitarist and singer Ryan Seagrist from Discount and the Bis side-project The Kitchen; guitarist and singer Lizzie Killian’s from Glowing Stars and the still-thriving Teens in Trouble; drummer Dave Cantwell from many North Carolina bands since the early ‘90s, including Analogue, Cold Sides, and In the Year of the Pig; and bassist Fikri Yucel, formerly of Durham’s premiere faux-French new wave goth band, Veronique Diabolique. Since Blab School formed, drummer Dave moved to Carolina Beach, NC–almost three hours south of the rest of the band. And guitarist Abby Sheriff (from the local honky-tonkers Borrowed Band) has joined the band, since Lizzie amicably quit to focus on Teens in Trouble. Despite these changes, the band is as active as ever and plans to record with the new lineup sometime in 2025.