Justin Champlin

Hunx & his Punx & Heavy Cream played Mercury Lounge (pics)

“Though the Oakland-based thrift-store heartthrob’s latest album, , was a solo effort largely about personal catharsis and recorded without his Punx backing band, the garage-pop songs have a simple timelessness and filthy energy that’s totally irresistible when played live by a razor-sharp four-piece band (including Shannon Shawof Shannon and the Clams on bass) dressed like background actors from John Waters’s Cry-Baby…