MEET MOMS WITH BANGS
(All Photos By Matthew Kadi Photography)
Meet Moms With Bangs! We've just announced their upcoming 7" release, "Do What's Delicious" out everywhere on Friday, November 14th, is available for pre-order both at our website and at your favorite local record store! Here's a bit more info about the youngest band ever signed to Alternative Tentacles!
Born out of the Northern California DIY scene, Moms With Bangs started as a ragtag group of high schoolers looking to build a musical community filled with loud, chaotic, unfiltered energy. Using the legendary Phoenix Theater in Petaluma as their home base, members Michael Cook, Leo Hirsch, Austin Kennedy, Axel Sanchez, and Oliver John began to test their loud experimental sound and unhinged live shows before going onto grace stages around the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Including some chaotic DIY shows in Golden Gate Park, industrial neighborhoods, and other half-legal spaces that helped define their reckless, communal spirit. Moms With Bangs shows have become legendary for being high-volume, high-energy, and having no barrier between the band and their audience.
Self-releasing their debut album Jazzercised in 2022, Moms With Bangs became infamous for their weird and wild sound that showcased throttling high energy rhythms found in bands like Thee Oh Sees. Showing an affinity for the off-kilter groove of bands like Deerhoof or Black Midi. This band has no limits and no fear.
It was these qualities that caught the attention of Jello Biafra himself, who was so impressed he signed Moms With Bangs to his label Alternative Tentacles Records! This is just beginning for the band who are about to spread their raw sound and sweaty shows across the country on big stages or in your backyard!
Recorded at Tiny Telephone in Oakland, CA over the course of two days in January of 2024, the band live-tracked these songs in one large recording room. Recording at the same time facing each other, to make sure the recording captured the unfiltered energy of the live show as much as possible.
As for the name of the 7”? “Do What’s Delicious” came from a suggestion from Jello Biafra himself, while the band was in the studio, as a name he once considered for a Dead Kennedys release.
Moms With Bangs has crafted the perfect Alternative Tentacles debut: loud, unforgettable, and absolute unpredictable chaos. “Do What’s Delicious” and pick up this incredible 7” debut.
RECORDS WILL SHIP ON OR AFTER NOVEMBER 14TH