it is kinda right on the label, but a lot of people don't understand that we're a punk rock band at the core.

now, if you were to just close your eyes and put our music on your speakers--um, we'll get some better recordings later this month yall--"punk rock" probably wouldn't be very big in the word cloud to describe the vibe.

at least, if you don't listen to the lyrics. hell, most don't, I learned that in my adult life.

in fact, in the Prequel Era one of the "surprises" on the band's typical menu of Rick James, Sade, and George Benson was Bad Religion's "Punk Rock Song." 

one time at a party we played it and mfs just started doing the Twist while I wailed "there's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread!" and it will always be one of the more surreal moments of my entire existence.

think there's footage of that out there somewhere.

anyways that's the day I learned for an actual fact that a lot of folx just come to dance...but hey, we bring bounteous groove to the floor for expressly this purpose and besides, the medicine goes down smoother with sugar yeah? 

furthermore, the presence of ZiZi in the lineup ensures that there will be more than three chords paired with the truth in our stuff. I tell ya hwhat, she just knows all the keys and scales and modes, she can confidently identify 3/4 time and all the other musical math, literally has a fucking music science degree???

an actual certified degree in music, WHO EVEN HAS THAT YOU MADE THAT UP

guess the recipe goes something like "funky punk rock band + ZiZi." she brought most of the pleasant, we filter it though my bad brains....just under the pretty paintjob there's an AK-47, tragic flower of Mikhail Kalashnikov's wounded spirit.

ole Mikey just wanted to--and did--write poetry and prose, instead he lived out most of his years caught up in the World War Era and had to turn his attentions to personally designing one of the deadliest combat weapons in human history. you've probably heard of it.

...and so since we find outrselves in some of Those Times, the things I build now more run on a Woody Guthrie platform, but the intended use is the same. 

like, our song "kiss" is 100 percent a punk rock song...it may be sonically more, um...Eastern dancehall?...but story is some idiot goes way too far with his catcalling and gets fn shot (non-fatally, just shot enough to learn his lesson).

is that not hardcore enough for you?

there's also "refrigeraiders" which comes out more reggaesque but, like:

"you said we'd be somebody

you threw a pizza party

and so we pack it up to go

before we leave the party

yeah!

(ooooooo) ain't havin' it, your avarice it's goin down!

check ain't clearin 

tired of hearing

ain't enough to go around

time gon come when you know you got to share some"

like bro I even mentioned pizza! 

another central theme of punk rock is "tape it together" and we carry that attitude everywhere...partially the highly resourceful culture in which the band developed, partially my own personal inclinations.

maybe it is broken. 

it can be fixed prollykindamostly. 

it doesn't have to be perfect to work perfectly. 

we'll do it together.

listen just tape the mf together, we got something human to do let's go!

so no, nobody in the full-time lineup has a mohawk at this time and we're still working on Zi's battle vest but the revolution goes way more than pin-deep. 

hell we're more punk than any pop-punk band...why do you think the album basically got named "graffiti?"

so when you come to one of our demonstrations, please know that if you have come to partake in The Funk, you will feel it in your feet, back, and sacroiliac...but if you got punk rock in your spirit, we can damn sure raise a fist together.

like I said, it's right on the label.

all power to The People.

--Flor!