Margy Pepper
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…
Margy Pepper & Soil on tour, playing Death by Audio (dates)
With a distinctive ramshackle, shouty, indiepop sound, you might guess Margy Pepper were from Olympia, WA if we weren’t telling you so here…