Steve Bjorklund

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Steve Bjorklund a/k/a Steve Björklund a/k/a Steffan Bjorklund was born ca. 1960 in Chicago, Illinois. He was an early figure [1] in the first punk rock music scene in Chicago. He briefly attended Roycemore School in Evanston, Illinois. His first known recorded appearance was in July, 1978, as a guitarist-singer with the protopunk-garage-New Wavish band The Rabbits, who opened a show in Schaumburg, Illinois by power-pop up-and-comers Pezband.

After the breakup of The Rabbits in fall, 1978, Bjorklund formed the project band Strike Under [2] with his brother Chris. Strike Under produced one record, the 1981 5-track pressing, Immediate Action, which receives mixed reviews [3][4] but has nevertheless been called an "integral document to the history of punk rock in Chicago" [5]. Strike Under featured Pierre Kezdy, who would later play with Naked Raygun and Pegboy; the band, besides releasing its own record, also appeared on the seminal 1981 Busted at Oz LP, an historic document of the second wave of Chicago punk, recorded at the legendary club Oz before it closed down[6].

Following the breakup of Strike Under, Bjorklund briefly formed another Chicago punk band, Terminal Beach [7]. In the mid-1980s, Bjorklund's brother Chris, a talented guitarist, joined The Effigies [8], a more successful Chicago punk band fronted by Kezdy's brother John. Steve Bjorklund relocated to Minneapolis, playing with Breaking Circus [9]. Breaking Circus was active through approximately 1988 [10] and is considered an important example of early post-punk/industrial music in Minneapolis [11].

Bjorklund continued to work in the recording industry, with a number of punk bands in Chicago and Minneapolis, through the early 1990s, credited primarily as producer or as mastering re-mixer [12].

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