REVIVAL Presents: 5 band Friday

Diego Rodrigues - Vox/Guitars

Decent Criminal is abrasive love pop, cynical self reformed guitar rock, and barbershop surf punk from outside San Francisco. Brothers Tristan and Hunter Martinez are the burning center of a band that’s taken their 70’s glam and 90’s alternative upbringing to stages that welcome everything from 80’s hardcore to noise pop. They have and can play with anybody.

Growing out of their hometown with guitarist/vocalist Brian Gellman, and bassist Alex Kouninos, Decent Criminal put their name on the map with 2017’s Bloom - an album ferocious with clean-to-distorted guitar bursts and delicate major to minor chord progressions. Bloom found the band in support slots for nationally known touring acts, earning them a fan base outside of their usual touring routes. With the addition of bassist Jesse Hernandez in late 2017, the band toured heavier than ever.

2019’s Bliss, continued this progression and landed the band their first European tour. Bliss showed the band breaking away from the grungy remnants kept alive from their earlier days in punk bands. Despite being home to a couple of their fastest songs, Bliss is colored in jangly guitar riffs, pop structures and love songs that drift from nostalgia over leaving their lives back home, and the liberation felt in the process of finding a life beyond.

Hunter Martinez - Drums

Taking inspiration from 60’s surf, fuzz, punk and reverb-filled guitar tones, 3LH bring a sense of newness to a classic sound. Comprised of Rafa Heredia (Guitar/ Vocals), Johnny Villanueva (Keys/Guitar) Kevin Carranza (Drums) Favian Vega (Bass), 3LH deliver the tones of the likes of guitar virtuosos like Link Wray, The Kinks, mixed with the garage / punk sensibilities of modern acts like The Growlers, The Frights and Tijuana Panthers.

Immersed in the Latino punk/garage DIY scene of Orange County, 3LH has made a name for themselves having played to packed crowds at The Observatory, Constellation Room, The Garden Amphitheater, The Smell and shared the stage with diverse acts including Tijuana Panthers, Tropa Magica, OC Hurricanes, Mystic Braves and more.

Look for their debut full length LP ‘Silver Dream Road’ out May 13, 2022 on My Grito.

The year is 2043, AI has permeated into almost every aspect of existence. Manual forms of music, art, and cinema are all defunct. We relive every happiest moment ever had via a simulation playlist catered to our physiological brain scanned at birth, then accurately depicted what we will grow to like, to love and to hate. At the final time of expiration, around 211 common years, each human form can choose to unplug and live their final 24 hours untethered to any AI or simulation. If the human chooses to do this they are landed in a smokey bar from the early 2020's. There is a jukebox in the corner. Upon flipping 11 times to the "T" section there are three albums listed: The Band Ice Cream - "Play Dead", The Band Ice Cream - "Numbskull", The Band Ice Cream - "Classically Trained". You choose "Play Dead" and slowly grin while the holes poked in society's direction then are the holes you find yourself getting buried alive in now.

Culminating from the duo-inspired ethos of “minimum members, maximum sound,” Los Angeles’ The Haunts is a band born out of the goal of stripping down garage rock from its simple beginnings to an even rawer, reverb-soaked sound. With the trifecta of drummer Alanna Swadlow’s precise, electric style, guitarist Aaron Brotman’s punk meets surf fusion, and the final component of vocalist Max Collier’s smooth croon, The Haunts continue to spread their brand of surfy garage rock to the West Coast and beyond.

Aaron Brotman - Guitar

Alanna Swdlow - Drums

Max Goldenstein - Vocals