Sugarcult

Is it too early for a 1990s revival? Sugarcult don't think so: their songs pay tribute to late-'90s punk-pop. Their quirky, snot-nosed sound reveals a band that may have grown up on their older brothers' Green Day albums and other Lookout! records. Check it out before the grunge revival begins!

Sugarcult are quick to claim they're not a pop-punk band; in fact, they're closer to a
narrower genre: O.C. rock. The Santa Barbara, California, band's second album is full of
dewy-eyed tunes that would make fine background music for the Fox teen-drama series,
particularly the hard-driving lead single, "Memory," on which singer Tim Pagnotta intones,
"This may never start/Tearing out my heart/I'd be your memory." For each woozi... More >