Texas is a punk hotbed at the moment with bands such as Nihilistic Fit, The Noids, Blue Dolphin, Sex Pill and Mirror busting out some excellent fried/drug fucked and psych hardcore.Denton's Laughter fit right in with their grimy bent. I've seen them described as "Germs workshop punk' and listening to their new EP Misused, you can hear the hallmarks of some degenerate rock n roll fuelled by humour and nastiness.
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The five-piece, who feature members of Baja & The Blasters, The Noids and Digi Boys, fire manic shots of unhinged but fun punk that often ends with singer Josh rolling around the beer spilled floor.A follow up to their debut tape that they dropped earlier this year, the six-songs on Misused showcases songs written from the perspective of a bunch of guys who hang at the local punk house and get jeered from passing cars. They are kind of like the Charlie Sheen character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off if he listened to GG Allin rather than The Police.But they also have a song "Caesura", which is also the name used for a juncture in classical Greek and Latin poetry. Go figure.Listen to Misused below and read a few words from guitarist Jake Plunkett.Noisey: Some of the punk coming out of Texas at the moment has a real psyched out feel. Like it is taking Roky Erickson's legacy and running with it.
Jake Plunkett: Roky is the man in these parts so I'd only hope we're running with his legacy. We just like to take acid a lot and listen to AC/DCWhat are the wildest/tamest punk scenes in Texas?
I don't know really. Texas has three main scenes; Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and Austin, and they all are pretty sick. I've experienced insane shows in all of them. We live in Denton and all the shows now are in a few different houses including our basement. Jason Lee from the show My Name is Earl moved to Denton and bought the town from under us. Since we lost our venues we just been having a lot of wild ass house shows in our basement and a few other houses here. Two of us just moved into Lions Den which is one of like five basement venues in Texas so we've been getting pretty rowdy here.I'm loving "Glass Gods". What's the story behind that?
It's about a reoccurring dream that entails seeing a loved one die. Lyrically dark but musically it is pretty catchy. It's a nice little prelude into the title track which is one of our darker songs.Image: Andi Harman
Jake Plunkett: Roky is the man in these parts so I'd only hope we're running with his legacy. We just like to take acid a lot and listen to AC/DCWhat are the wildest/tamest punk scenes in Texas?
I don't know really. Texas has three main scenes; Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and Austin, and they all are pretty sick. I've experienced insane shows in all of them. We live in Denton and all the shows now are in a few different houses including our basement. Jason Lee from the show My Name is Earl moved to Denton and bought the town from under us. Since we lost our venues we just been having a lot of wild ass house shows in our basement and a few other houses here. Two of us just moved into Lions Den which is one of like five basement venues in Texas so we've been getting pretty rowdy here.I'm loving "Glass Gods". What's the story behind that?
It's about a reoccurring dream that entails seeing a loved one die. Lyrically dark but musically it is pretty catchy. It's a nice little prelude into the title track which is one of our darker songs.Image: Andi Harman