(Update 15 July 2012: The band is NOT from the Southbay as stated below but actually from the San fran area of Eastbay. Insert mocalate sippin and artschools where palmtrees and economic schools is written.)
Oi!/Streetpunk band that started back in 2005 around the Southbay of California. This might not be the first place that comes to mind when thinking about an Oi! movement with their fancy and prestigeous economic's schools and palmtrees but i guess everything must have it's counterculture.
The band almost crosses of every checkpoint on my shitlist with their connections to Lars Fredriksen and their hybridsound of Oi!/streetpunk but one can't shake the fact that they actually record some pretty good songs. Most of their lyrics poke around in the same shithole that Pressure Point used to do (blaming their government for everything without giving a solution to anything) and most of their stuff tend to sound more streetpunk than Oi! but through all their releases they have somehow come to charm me. Teir releases are numerous for a band that's only been around for 7 years with 2 full-lengths, 3 EP's, 3 splits and still counting. The band just released their latest album called Pride & Tradition produced by Lars Frederiksen (mjääh) and are planning a European tour.
The members are Darrel Wojick on vocals, Mike C. on lead guitar, Jayson Shepard on rhythmic guitar, Mike "Deuce" Miller on bass and Forrest Maestretti on drums.
I think you got Northern Califonia confused with Southern California. There arn't any Palm trees in the Southbay. Southbay is San Jose aka Silicon Valley. Home to Apple, HP, EBAY etc etc. There is a counterculture influence there due to it's location near Berkley which is in the Eastbay where Rancid is from. Berkley is where the whole Hippie movement started then moved to San Francisco in the 60's. Just to let you know. Other than that, keep up the good work. Always good to stumble across some new bands here and there.
SvaraRaderaMight be a bit prejudice about the whole Cali area from all the bad actionmovies produced there in the 90's. Need to study up on my American geografy a bit before talking out my ass next time haha.
RaderaSorry, the Southbay is Los Angeles. Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, all the way to LAX.
SvaraRaderaThis band just fucking sucks. Maybe that's why Larsy boy loves em... cookie cutter punk/"oi" with baldies would wouldn't hurt a fly... unless it were on their cheeseburger.
SvaraRaderaHS isn't from the southbay they're from the East Bay, and they're a pretty damn good band...the last poster here is probably one of those pathetic bastards that jumped on the Lars hating bandwagon...why don't you just tune into radio rock because your 15 minutes of subculture surfing is about up...
SvaraRaderaEast bay... hmmm might be right about that. Will change the info.
RaderaCheers
Not that many palm trees in San Francisco, kind of cole for those things.
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