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In late 1990, Dennis Callaci and Allen Callaci, two brothers who had been in a band called The Bux together for a few years, found themselves in need of a new drummer. They got in touch with Joel Connell (ex-Pillsbury Hardcore, then-Man Is The Bastard) and the three played together on KSPC, the local radio station that served as home base for many of the entities covered on this site. This led to their first tape as Refrigerator, Lonesome Surprize.

Joel Connell stayed on for a few years, then handed over drumming duties to Allen's high school friend Chris Jones in the mid-90's. In 1999 Daniel Brodo (then a Franklin Bruno associate) would join them on bass. Since then, Refrigerator's core lineup has remained Allen and Dennis Callaci, Chris Jones, and Daniel Brodo. 

Refrigerator have since recorded 15 albums, contributed to many, many, many compilations, and produced some great 7" releases. Dennis continues to operate Shrimper Records, and Allen works as a librarian, a professor, and a frequent guest speaker on the subject of his heart transplant, about which he wrote Heart Like A Starfish, a read I cannot recommend highly enough.   

You can support the band by buying from distributors Midheaven Mailorder and Grapefruit Records. Also, to motivate you to do so: in a service I've only taken a time to do for Refrigerator so far, on many of these album/7" info pages, you can click on the embedded music player and listen to an mp3 with about 15 seconds per track.

In the future, look forward to dedicated sections on Dennis's solo work (both under his name and under his 90's alias Paste) and on some of the collaborations Dennis and Allen have done with other artists over the years. I'd also like to do a section on The Bux, but I have very little of the material and could use some help with that (and maybe some of the off-Shrimper Paste tapes also). 

To read a very sweet interview Allen did over email with me, click here.

To view any album's index page, click the cover. You can also scroll down past them for a text-based list you can click, I just have more trouble with getting the tables to display nicely on mobile, so this is my compromise:

Albums:

7"s:

The Nothing Painted Blue/Refrigerator split 7" and the Live At The Pomona American Legion Hall tape:

 

And some searchable text (click the album art thumbnail to open the page):

	Lonesome Surprize	Shrimper, 1991
	Rael	Shrimper, 1991
	Long 331/3 Play	18 Wheeler, 1993
	How You Continue Dreaming	Communion Label/Shrimper, 1994
	Bicycle	Brinkman, 1995
	Anchors of Bleed	Communion Label, 1996
	Somehow	Shrimper, 1997
	Refrigerator (s/t)	Shrimper, 1997
	Glitter Jazz	Shrimper, 1999
	Comedy Minus One	Shrimper, 2001
	Upstairs In Your Room	Shrimper, 2004
	Bottles Of Makeup	Shrimper, 2007
	Dangerous	Shrimper, 2011
	Temple City	Shrimper, 2015
	High Desert Lows	Shrimper, 2018
	So Long To Farewell	Shrimper, 2021
	Rocking Horse Loser	Jupa, 1991
	Songs With A Story	Shrimper, 1992
	Car Alarm	Shrimper, 1992
	Down With	Ajax, 1993
	Suck And Run	Paperplane, 1994
	Louder Than Goodbye	Squealer, 1995
	Live At The Pomona American Legion Hall	Shrimper, 2013
	Refrigerator/Nothing Painted Blue Split	Misha Records, 1995

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