SWEAT + BIG + M.U.T.T
Ivy Room
860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany, CA
$15 Advance / $18 Door
(rsvp on facebook)
SWEAT
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Sweat started in 2019 with members Anthony (Dangers), Justin (Graf Orlock), & Tuna (Dogteeth). Our main mission was to have fun, take the leash off, and have a hardcore band with punk ethos that was heavy on the rnr riffs. It was an organic process, as we have all played with each other in other bands or cover bands over the last decade.
Riff forever!
M.U.T.T.
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From the genre-defining power pop of The Flaming Groovies in the 70s to the breakthrough success of Jawbreaker’s gruff but saccharine melodic punk in the 90s, San Francisco’s longstanding legacy as an invaluable piece of the American underground musical landscape is hard to overstate. Emerging as worthy torchbearers of that legacy are M.U.T.T.
After the premature and fraught implosion of his previous band Culture Abuse, John Jr. was left unsure of how to proceed. Nothing was quite falling into place. After sending some home recordings to fellow Culture Abuse alum Matt Walker, the ghost of an idea began to take shape. To fill out the lineup of a quickly emerging full-fledged band, Junior reached out to two more former Culture Abuse bandmates, Isa Anderson and Shane Plitt. A lo-fi bedroom project had morphed into a fully realized group, eager to move on from the shared trauma of their previous band’s dissolution. Thus emerged M.U.T.T.
Junior imagines M.U.T.T. as everything he wishes Culture Abuse could have been but wasn’t. As much a love letter to the sleazy glam rock that was once California’s chief export as it is to the bare bones punk of The Ramones, M.U.T.T. is the musical equivalent of four friends out late on a warm summer night, looking for an empty parking lot to party in.
They don’t want to reinvent the wheel. They don’t want to change the world. They just want to play good old fashioned rock and roll. And man, do they ever excel at it.