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Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones shocked the music world with their turbo-charged punk rock, Blanks 77, have shown that the musical genre is not solely an artifact from the past. With the screaming vocals of Mike Blank and the barbed-wire sounds of Renee Wasted's electric guitar soaring over the slamming rhythms of bassist Timm "T. J." Blank and drummer Chad 10 Seconds, the New Jersey-based band create a supersonic, anything goes, punk-inspired, sound of their own. According to "The CMJ-NMR Review", Blanks 77 "specialize in the pure punk style of '77 but with no socio-political agenda"....

The Blanks are an a cappella group. Most notably, they continue to appear in the TV series Scrubs in a recurring guest role, under various names such as "Ted's Band" and "The Worthless Peons". They have released an album, Riding the Wave, released in 2004. The group maintains that all of their tracks feature only their four voices, and they do not use any traditional musical instruments (except for, as their pledge states, "talking toys, hand claps, finger snaps and thigh slaps"). The members are: Sam Lloyd (tenor, lead), Philip McNiven (countertenor), George Miserlis (baritone) and Paul F. Perry (bass)....