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Hermosa Beach
United States, California
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| MY DETAILS |
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03/19/2008 13:09:54 |
| BAND MEMBERS: |
Vocals - Zoli Teglas Guitar - Fletcher Dragge Bass - Randy Bradbury Drums - Byron McMackin |
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Too many punk bands that sound like us to list
Too many metal bands that sound like us to list
Too many alternative rock bands that sound like us to list
Too many top 40 bands that sound like us to list |
| RECORD LABEL: |
Epitaph Records |
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| BAND BIO |
| New York had the Ramones. Los Angeles has PENNYWISE, the most
significant hardcore band to emerge from SoCal punk’s second wave. As
it celebrates it 20th anniversary, the Hermosa Beach band is doing
things its own way, taking on a brave new world by linking up with
MySpace Records and offering its latest album, REASON TO BELIEVE free
to fans for two weeks. Starting on March 25, P-Dub fans can grab a
high-quality download of the Cameron Webb-produced, 14-track album,
arguably the band’s fiercest record in a decade. Not surprising from a
band that has always forged its own destiny, it’s an Internet
first--marking the first time a U.S. record label has provided an
artist with the opportunity to offer a new album free of charge and the
first time MySpace has offered a full album download with a worldwide
push. PENNYWISE formed in 1988, when punk couldn’t be less
popular and hair bands were a sign o’ the times. Its four members
quickly developed a style entirely their own--a tsunami of California
hardcore, melodic surf punk and optimistic anthems that went against
the seek-and-destroy ethos of its era. PENNYWISE garnered a nationwide
following through constant touring--they’ve done the Vans Warped Tour
so many times they’ve got permanent road rash--as well as numerous
snowboard, skate and surf videos. After nine albums, PENNYWISE is
best-known for its pounding rant “Fuck Authority,” searing
soul-searcher “Alien,” and their ode to brotherhood, “Bro Hymn,” an
autobiographical song that pays tribute to its founding bass player,
Jason Thirsk, who committed suicide in 1996. Currently, the new single
“The Western World” is the most requested song on KROQ 106.7, L.A.’s
No. 1 modern rock station and already in heavy rotation.
Despite the early loss of Thirsk, the union of vocalist JIM LINDBERG,
guitarist FLETCHER DRAGGE and drummer BYRON McMACKIN, high school
friends from Hermosa, ran too deep to quit while they were ahead and
they signed on bassist RANDY BRADBURY and continued putting out albums
that went straight for the American jugular--politically-charged,
culturally relevant, unflinchingly honest and consummately independent.
Among the band’s studio albums are its eponymous Epitaph debut (1991)
and 1993’s Unknown Road, which revealed the full potency of what they
had to offer. Before recording its third album in early 1995, PENNYWISE
was hit up by the majors. It was, after all, hot on the heels of the
“year punk broke,” but the band stayed true to its roots and remained
on SoCal’s independent Epitaph Records. The resulting album, About
Time, remains till this day one of the greatest punk records of all
time. By 1996, when PENNYWISE was recording its fourth album, Thirsk
took time off to deal with alcohol addiction but tragically, he never
came back. He died July 29, 1996, eight years after the band’s
inception. The albums that followed--Full Circle (1997), Straight Ahead
(1999), Land of the Free (2001), From the Ashes 2003 and The Fuse
(2005)--revealed a band that just got harder and more political over
time, as the world of music got softer and less interested.
With REASON TO BELIEVE, hardcore fans and newcomers alike will see
first hand that punk bands may come and go, but Pennywise is forever. |
| INFLUENCES |
| The Adolescents, Black Flag, Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, D.I., Dead Kennedys, Descendents, Minor Threat, The Misfits (with Glenn Danzig), Ramones, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, TSOL, Violent Femmes |
| EXPLAIN THE NAME |
| Well, we're named after the character in a comedy called It. |
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