Heather the Jerk (LP release), Baby Tyler Band (7-inch release)

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Bob Koch

Heather the Jerk at the Crystal Corner.

Heather the Jerk

In bands including Proud Parents, Boo/Hiss and The Hussy, Heather Sawyer has proven to be one of Madison’s most consistently engaging songwriters, creating catchy rock-punk-garage songs that say a lot in a refreshingly concise and straightforward way. Sawyer’s current main project, Heather the Jerk, brings more goodness on Scroll If You Love Devil, first released last winter as a very limited tape and now out on a snazzy new LP with bonus tracks. Baby Tyler also has a new 7-inch, “Ignoring Signs,” coming in October via the Goodbye Boozy label. Both bands are back from a European tour for this release show.

media release: European tour homecoming and also a dual US record release for the vinyl release of Heather the Jerk's Scroll If You Love Devil album and a new Baby Tyler 7" coming out on Goodbye Boozy

Baby Tyler Band

Heather The Jerk

(sets followed by the band DJing)

Friday 10/2/26

The Ohio Tavern

music at 8:00PM

21+

suggested donations at door

Heather the Jerk is releasing Scroll If You Love Devil on vinyl with four new songs not on the previous tape release via Mpls Ltd on August 27. Now they are back with "Hello," a new song from the LP (see Post-Trash premiere)….

For Wisconsin songwriter Heather Sawyer, DIY music has always been a way of life. From co-founding the explosive, globetrotting garage duo The Hussy, the multi-singer pop rock supergroup Proud Parents, and the new hazy Boo/Hiss, among many others, to holding down powerhouse drumming tenures in countless punk and rock groups, to call her output prolific would be merely scratching the surface.

Over the course of almost twenty years Sawyer has honed her craft, uniquely melding the warmth and familiarity of old-time rock n roll, saccharine doo-wop and '60s soulful garage rock with new shades of punk, fuzz laden lo-fi and classic indie rock. Led by one of the purest and most authentic voices in underground music, she encapsulates all of this perfectly under the solo moniker Heather The Jerk, and her new album, Scroll If You Love Devil, reaches incredible new heights.

Recorded with Josh Biehler to tape on a Tascam 238, SIYLD kicks off with ‘Get Off My Lawn’ as Sawyer barrels through rattling off what she doesn’t like against a heavy rolling beat, like Bonham backing Thee Headcoatees, and the energy never wanes. She jumps back and forth between hyped up, catchy fuzz pop numbers like ‘My Dumb Brain’ and ‘Way It Goes,’ and raucous punk rippers like ‘Nothing Changes’ and ‘Bahboozay (Ode To A Cat),’ before ending with the intimate ‘I Miss You’ that rings out like a long lost Beat Happening track. While revered for her strength and style behind the kit, Sawyer also plays all the guitar across the album, save for a couple choice solos from guest collaborator Doug Busson of Minneapolis’s Yuasa-Exide. Mixing humorous observations and vulnerable admissions, spliced with non-sequiturs and inside jokes, SIYLD stands as Sawyer’s strongest and hardest hitting release to date, and asserts her prowess as a songwriter, a musician, and the Midwest’s greatest harbinger of hooks, melody and joyous rock n roll. The only jerk thing Sawyer could do at this point would be to stop making music.