Smogtown

Smogtown is Southern California’s secret weapon and quite possibly the best punk rock band you’re bound to have not heard this year. Firmly lightning bolted to the region’s past – with strains of the Crowd, The Klan, Black Flag, TSOL, and The Weirdos all spreading through their musical cancer-the amazing thing is that they not only reanimate the past like kids playing with putty & dynamite, they pick up where others dropped the baton and squeal away into the future, pot smoke billowing out the windows, barren landscape ahead, with crazed sounds coming out of their fingertips & mouths. They’re the stucco culture antidote. They’re the cure to planned communities. They’re the electricity that charges the little, invisible nodes inside of us all, activated by the pulse of loud music, melting brains to headphones. Idea brilliant. Idea Perfect.
-Razorcake Magazine