Daycare Swindlers

In 1994 bassist Mike "Frogger" Shotton and drummer Mark "Blasto" Reiter launched the ska-punk outfit the Daycare Swindlers on the George Mason University campus. Guitarists Mark 'Scrote' O'Connor and "Suga-Dick" Jeffries came aboard soon afterward, and after rotating through multiple singers the band welcomed frontman Noah "Noodle" Waggener in 1996. The group issued its debut album independently in 1998; VileBeat reissued the recording the next year. Testostarosa arrived in 2000, followed by In Loving Memory in 2001. Throughout this period the DC Swindlers maintained an active touring schedule across the Mid-Atlantic states and up and down the East Coast. The effort led to a 2002 deal with New York City’s Go-Kart Records, the hardcore/punk imprint that released Heathen Radio the same year. In 2003 the label put out This Is No Way to Make a Living, a compilation surveying the Swindlers’ VileBeat era and featuring previously unreleased tracks.