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Thursday
December 19 2013 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• ALL AGES $13 in advance / $15 at the door Good Riddance grpunk.com/ punk rock Cobra Skulls www.cobraskulls.com/blog/ punk rock Western Addiction www.fatwreck.com/band/index/51 punk rock Good Riddance Russ Rankin Luke Pabich Chuck Platt Sean Sellers Good Riddance (sometimes abbreviated GR) is a punk rock band from Santa Cruz, California, formed in 1986. Led by vocalist Russ Rankin, the band's longtime lineup included guitarist Luke Pabich, bassist Chuck Platt, and drummer Sean "SC" Sellers. Their sound was influenced by the hardcore punk scene and the band was known for their combination of fast punk with catchy melodies. Lyrical themes vary from political protests and critical analyses of American society to personal struggles and alienation. The band grew out of California’s vibrant surfing and skateboarding culture and was influenced by such bands as Black Flag, The Adolescents, TSOL and Bad Religion as well as East Coast bands like Sick Of It All and the Cro Mags. The group’s early years were spent going through line up changes, playing local and regional shows and recording demos as they developed their sound. Early tours and a 7” record release on Little Deputy Records in 1993 (“Gidget”) brought the band widespread interest and overwhelmingly positive reviews. In 1994 the band caught the interest of Fat Wreck Chords who released the “Decoy” 7" later that year while the band hit the studio with producer Ryan Greene to record their first full length album “For God And Country” which was released in early 1995. Over the next decade, while crisscrossing the globe dozens of times on tour, Good Riddance went on to release seven full length albums and an EP for Fat Wreck Chords, and their final album was a live recording of their farewell concert in 2007. The band developed a dedicated and passionate fan base through their constant touring and politically charged music. Good Riddance began donating a portion of their record sales to various organizations and doing whatever they could to raise awareness about the causes they felt strongly about. In May 2007 Good Riddance played their final show, fittingly in their hometown of Santa Cruz. The members then went their separate ways to raise families and pursue careers. Though there have been numerous offers to reform and play in the five years since, the band has turned them all down. Until last year, that is. In 2012 the members of Good Riddance decided to get together and play again. The reason was simple: they missed the songs. And so, on February 16, 2012, Good Riddance announced on their Web site that they had reunited. The band is to continue with their usual lineup (Rankin, Pabich, Platt and Sellers). Cobra Skulls Tony Teixeira, Devin Peralta, and Luke Swarm. -From Reno, Nevada -In the summer of 2005, in Reno, Nevada, three friends who met at school started to feel tired of most of the music that was coming out by most of the new bands out there, so they decided to make music themselves. Three studio albums and five EPs later, Cobra Skulls is one of the premier punk bands out of Nevada. No target is too weird, too outside the normal realm of traditional punk angst for the Cobra Skulls. Their latest album, Agitations, sets its sights on the crumbling economy, our unsustainable auto-obsessed culture, the xenophobia bred in the post 9-11 political climate, their own families and friends, and prisons that are run like profit-turning businesses. Nothing is spared in the latest musical outpourings from these hyper-intelligent, incisive, uncompromising, politically charged, lovelorn misanthropes, but that's normal coming from Reno's favorite sons. Western Addiction a punk rock band based in San Francisco. The band was formed by four veterans of the punk scene. Some (maybe all) of the members work for Fat Wreck Chords. That's where they met.. Do you remember when punk rock didn’t rely on prefixes? Like, you didn’t have to say ‘streetpunk’ or ‘crust punk’ or “political punk” or ‘shit punk’ or ‘art punk’ or ‘pop punk’? Simpler, more straightforward times. Not easier times, just times where punk wasn’t shoved into smaller and smaller holes. That’s what Western Addiction strive for. Fun times. Thinking-while-rockin’ times. Pre-MTV musical genocide times. Vital times. Black Flag and Circle Jerks. Western Addiction are realistic, grounded, and paying their way. They just know how to get things done because they already know the ropes. Such knowledge and access has allowed them to play with such punk stalwarts TSOL, The Adicts, The Adolescents, and the Swingin’ Utters. |
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