Frankie and the Studs

Clock-Out Lounge Presents: Bad Cop/Bad Cop plus Frankie and The StudsSunday July 21st8pm doors 21+$17adv/$20 dos https://badcopbadcop.bandcamp.com/track/safe-and-legalIts been a hectic couple of years since Los Angeles punk quartet Bad Cop/Bad Cop dropped their debut full-length, Not Sorry. The band spent a huge chunk of the intervening time on the road, like most bands doand they wound up discovering some ugly things about themselves, like most bands do. Only for Bad Cop/Bad Cop, it got very serious, very quickly. We were on the Fat Wreck Chords 25th anniversary tour in 2015, and Stacey was partying really hard, says co-vocalist Jennie Cotterill. She ended up bottoming out on the tour, and we had to leave. It was not a good separation. We had to go home and drop off the tour and figure out if we were still a band, what are we going to do about Stacey Thankfully, Fat helped send her to detox, and she came out of that as a completely new person with a totally different trajectory. Before that, she was demonically possessed. She was destroying everything around her. Out of that experience came Amputations, one of the highlights on Bad Cop/Bad Cops explosive second album, Warriors. The song is a slower, bigger sing-along than anything else in the bands growing catalog, and its about the only thing not at a breakneck pace on the record.Many of the albums most cathartic, aggressive moments come from the mind of co-vocalist Stacey Dee, who after going through the darkest time of her life has come out stronger than ever. Instead of focusing solely on her own issues, she was able to expand her horizons, writing songs as poignant as Victoria (about a friends child who committed suicide) and Womanarchist (in which Dee namedrops Revolutionary War heroine Nancy Morgan Hart and Joan of Arc while proclaiming she wants to make the whole world feminist). Dee explains much of her expanded worldview came in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, making Warriors one of the first punk albums written in the Trump era. https://www.frankieandthestuds.com/Hollywoods Frankie and The Studs rock like hell. But you can sing along while you jack your fist into the air. Theyre a mix of dirty converse, and messy black hair, slender hips and big kohl eyes, sexual tension and youthful verve, and you can tell their record collections are crammed with 70s pop and glam, like Joan Jett, T. Rex and Bowie. Frankie and The Studs will either be the saviors of rock n roll for a whole new generation of kids ready to smash culture to bits, or theyll crash and flame out like The New York Dolls. No middle ground here folks, but thats rock n roll.