First off, let’s cut to the chase. How are you doing? We are ok. Right now we are working and are trudging along. But we know a lot of people in our communities are not as fortunate as we are. No time for apathy… So we are doing a pre-sale on Bandcamp. All money presale money generated on Friday will be donated toward local efforts to relieve some of the coronavirus financial burden. We are still figuring out how exactly, but we wanted to act fast.
That being said. Please donate for the pre-sale, and we spread that money (sans Paypal charges of course) locally. When the CD is available, you will have first dibs.
About the music: The new E.P. is called “Fang Shui” and was recorded at the Blasting Room by the lovely Chris Beeble…again! This e.p. marks the debut of Will H. doing lead vocals on a couple of songs. So expect more!
This is truly an amazing collaborative work from the band. We believe you will love the uniquely Sunnydale High sound. In this recording, we stretch out of the Buffyverse and venture into geekrock and revisit some classic personal themes. But don’t worry, our Buffy fans will be happy too! We are pop culture nerds who love to make noise.
So Sunnydale High is back at it. We have two normal shows in Wyoming and one special Halloween show. The first is in Laramie back at StudioWyo on Oct.3 with Sorry No Sympathy and Wynona. This will be a super rocking adventure.
We will be playing some new songs that we will be taking into the studio with us. Yes, we will be heading back tot he studio in January for our followup to Teenage Necromance. Who likes songs about the Persona’s Phantom Thieves and Dragon Quest along with the usual BTVS mix? You do. The answer is, you do. https://www.facebook.com/events/2241772199373573/ Check out the awesome Spotify playlist of great music hitting Studio Wyo.
The next show will be in Cheyenne at the Crown. It’s been a while since we have actually played Cheyenne. This will be an eclectic mix of music as well. We are rocking out with our great friends in the surftastic De Gringos Y Gremmies.
The night will feature some great psychobilly acoustic from the Peculiar Preztlemen. Oct. 19. These dudes are nuts. I’m not even going to bother describe their sound. Just take a listen below.
The last show will be back in Laramie with an entirely different set. This time our “Love Bats” version of ourselves will take the stage along with Laramie Favorites, the Atom Age!!! If you don’t know they wicked cool high energy music that will make you dance your butt off.
Well Slayers, we have two awesome, but vastly different, shows coming up on the Wyoming horizon.
The first show is with the Northern Colorado favorite In The Whale and Laramie’s own De Gringos Y Grimmies at the Ruffed Up Duck Aug. 14. This show will blast your face off.
The other crazy adventure is in Centennial, WY on Aug. 24. This will be a town Breakdown from 2-11 p.m. We will be rocking later in the evening, so be sure to stick around.
Ooh look. Plumb and Flowers of Sunnydale High got to visit Brandon of the “It’s So Awesome” Podcast and nerd out about Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
You cancheck it here. The podcast has a few hot topics ranging from ’90s television to comic books and top episodes.
Brandon has been doing the podcast since 2018. In fact, this is not the first time a Sunnydale High member has been on the show. Fran rocked out with Brandon early on episode 2.
www.jamycabre.com *Thank you for the sweet pics Jamy!
Sunnydale High will be playing Laramie and the Warped Tour in Denver. And so much seems to have happened.
Laramie will happen June 28 with the bands Silence In December, Chin Up, Kid and The Beeves. It’s only $5 and the party starts at 8. Check out the event info here.
Oh yeah. We made the above video for Slay Sorrow. It stars Khajiit the Kitty. Press play as you read the rest.
The Punkoff! was a blast. There were some great moments-far too many to even recount. It was a dream to play with the Descendents. All the bands killed it. Plasma Canvas played the power set of the night. It was pretty intense. Seneca lost his voice thanks to a bad throat illness…somethingitis. Will P. did a great job at cramming eight people into a single vehicle. Our pal JD of Redbush hung out with us and kept us sane throughout the day. Audrey helped us keep our cools. Courtney kept us humble. Will H. brought the comic relief. Jenny pulled through assisting while Fran was off the radar. The good news is that Fran will be back for our upcoming shows in Laramie and the Warped Tour.
The Mishawaka was such a great venue. Check out Cody aka Sunnyside Production’s blog of the night. In addition, our great friend Jamy came along and also took killer shots of several of the bands. These are a must check out her gallery. Jamy can somehow always take the perfect shot. Her In the Whale and Plasma Canvas galleries are stellar. Be sure to like her photography page if you haven’t. The crowd was great. Thank you all so much for rocking out and chatting with us afterward. It means everything.
Drummer Will hung out with Losing Lara and Seth from Zero Day Exploits at Denver Comic Con this year. They all took part in a rad panel the Mile High Ballroom.
Oh and in the last month…Two folks are doing grad school classes. One moved. One jet-setted and drank all the water in Flint, MI. Family lives got juggled, new pets cuddled, job reassignments happened, nerding activities happened, Con panel nailed, sadness and happiness balance attempted, multiple interviews in different media, while living in three different cities. Wrote songs. Played shows in other bands. Got our hairs did. All for the love of punk.
If you missed Sunnydale High at FoCoMX, here are a few clips from the show of some unreleased material. It was a pretty rad time at New Belgium Brewery. The overall weekend was a blast with a ton of awesome bands throughout Fort Collins. We ran into some of our favorite people at some of our favorite places.
Cheers to Shotgun Shogun, the Surfside, the Artery, 10 Cent Stranger, Chris and Andrew from the Blasting Room, our sound guy Fish, our MC Mike, the hilarious Brandt Tobler. Most of all, special thanks to the Sunnydale family Scoobies. We couldn’t have done anything without you.
Wahoo. Sunnydale High is playing with a concept rockers Zenitram Jr. once more. So let’s all get weird. Then there will be the Shane de Leon Trio.
Thursday, May 3 at 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. at the Ruffed Up Duck.
As JD says “The first time I saw Zenitram was in Laramie, WY. The duo consisted of a man in a dress singing with distorted electric guitar and prerecorded tracks, another guy breakdancing in a pizza costume, and the packed bar laughed nearly non stop at the riotous lyrics and general craziness. Weird Al/Jay Mascis musical memes and early Weenish electro-metal groove songs, with multi media video. Good original stuff.”
Attention all slayers, Sunnydale High is playing at FOCOMX at the New Belgium Brewing Company. We play 2-3 p.m April 28. So grab your drinks and stakes and get ready to slay. We will be outdoors and enjoying the sun, or clouds, or whatever.
FOCOMX has been around for a few years. This year, there is going to be more than 300 musicians of all types of genres playing and the list is pretty solid.
Check out our artist page here. They are rad organization with rad volunteers. There are soooooo many great bands, that you just can’t go wrong.
Laramie also has our friends Shotgun Shogun who will be rocking on Saturday at the Surfside at 10:30 p.m.
And for a little bit of Laramie band trivia if you made it this far in the post. Paul B. of Shotgun Shogun and Seneca played in two rocking bands together in their lifetime, not including the Misfits cover band. Check out one of the rare remaining songs below.
So if the Buffy The Vampire Slayer series was an person, she could legally drink today-probably Jameson? But maybe that is Faith…The series was clearly an inspiration to the band as well as fans all over. We decided to record a video to celebrate Buffy Slay Day. “Scoobies Never Say Die” is a minimal acoustic jam rocked out near a Tiny Desk.
The song is dedicated to all the slayers out there fighting their way through their own personal battles. It’s not easy, and it might not get easier for a while. But keep fighting and fight together for strength with numbers. Lyrics are included in the Youtube information if interested. The song is raw and cellphone-licious™.
So it’s no secret we will be playing with one of the coolest legendary punk bands ever on June 9, The Descendents. But these other rad bands we are playing at Mishawaka may actually be an incredible secret. We haven’t had the chance to play with any of these bands yet, but we are totally stoked on it.
First off, no two bands are the same, so the lineup consists of five unique bands tearing it up in totally different ways. Secondly, they are all Front Range based, so there will be great support for each of them there. Thirdly, just listen…
Bitter Suns somehow sound like they are simultaneously playing a giant club and your drunken after party basement show. Big sounds and big harmonies from a few dudes who are quintessential NoCo. These guys should be playing everywhere.
Plasma Canvas is straight in-your-face, blistering rock to get you dancing your until you sweat bullets. They pack driving beats, shredding guitar and empowering vocals to keep you rocking all day. Context could be the best song played that day by any of the bands.
One Flew West probably have the most fun of any of the bands playing. They at least have the best video out of all of us. Their insanely well crafted songs are sugar saturated goodness that are instant ear worms, and you probably already heard of their name since it is all over the 303 and beyond. See them here before they are selling out arenas.
Dryer Fire brings the house torching classics. They pack working class skate rock songs that could motivate the laziest of bastards and make them poo themselves. One super awesome thing is that they covered Wyoming’s own Lillingtons, so that is worth some love. If only one band gets sponsored by Pabst this year, these guys deserve the honor.
Oh, and Sunnydale High is playing, but you know us. Get tickets here.
