Are you a black mass bully with delusions of grandeur, craving to kick your peers into an early bliss at the pavlovian call of smothered strings and shattered skins ? Are you one drinking sour-sweet sweat from naked truths, clashing against walls of sound and laments on a bad moon rising ? Are you endlessly boxing your subcounscious with bags of ice cubes made from the unfiltered tears of street-level deities ? Hav
All that matters in the grand scheme of things is the band is not directly comparable to what has come before them. But if we must: RETOX is an outcome of stagnant and boring western culture, as well as the self-proclaimed counterculture, which has slipped into a sea of pointlessness. The band manages to detach themselves from what one might consider a promotional paragraph trying to explain what is not really impor
Look, the world obviously lost its britches. So two young gentlemen decided to literally say “fuck it”. Nathan Joyner and Justin Pearson (A good portion of All Leather) are here to, quite honestly, lift their legs and take a piss on what they feel should be marked. But the good thing is, these dudes are not your run of the mill-type dogs marking their territory, but more so, they are humans who want to share th
Sal Gallegos: Drums John Rieder: Bass
San Diego’s Secret Fun Club began in earnest in 2000 as a collaboration among Sal Gallegos (Some Girls), Nathan Joyner (Some Girls, All Leather), and John Rieder. This early three-piece iteration of the band was a collective in need of Ritalin, and during these years, Secret Fun Club was conceived as a kind of repository for whatever idea straddled the line between
Ever get the feeling something’s watching you from the shadows? Clawing its way from the rancid detritus of a punk tradition long thought past its expiration date, Rats Eyes is a rebirth of all that’s wonderfully wretched about hardcore. Apparently punk’s not yet dead. Rats Eyes is redefining the genre, prying the nails from its coffin and defibrillating the corpse inside. Headed up by the snarling vocals of
