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Ben Stiller’s teenage punk band to reissue debut album

Actor played drums in Capital Punishment, whose 1982 record ‘Roadkill’ will be rereleased in September

By Gabe Friedman 14 July 2018, 2:51 am

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Ben Stiller poses for photographers upon arrival at the February 4, 2016 premiere of the film 'Zoolander No.2,' in London. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

JTA — Ben Stiller was not the Jewish actor who starred in “School of Rock” — that honor goes to Jack Black.

But Stiller drummed in a post-punk band called Capital Punishment while growing up in New York, and it released an album in 1982, when he was about 17.

The New York-based record label Captured Tracks (known for releasing music by indie rockers Mac Demarco and DIIV) is re-releasing the band’s debut, titled “Roadkill,” in September.

The other members of Stiller’s band are Peter Zusi, who’s now a professor of Slavic studies at University College London; Peter Swann, who went on to become a Supreme Court justice in Arizona; and Kriss Roebling, a descendant of Brooklyn Bridge designer John Roebling.