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Permanent Ruin released an EP, touring before Smash It Dead Fest (dates, stream & lineup)

California has a long history of deranged-sounding punk rock, and San Jose’s Permanent Ruin uphold that tradition admirably. Their instrumental attack translates as undisciplined at first, but theirs is a studied messiness that benefits from stronger production values than most such bands tend to have; the vocals, by contrast, convincingly fly way off the handle…