![]() ![]() Ashley Naftuleįrank Schwichtenberg/CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikimedia Commons The Supersuckers With Prince Daddy and the Hyena 8 p.m., $40/$42 via. All these years later and they still don’t want to be like you that makes all the difference. Descendents might be older and wiser, but they haven’t forgotten the bratty spite that makes their work so bracing. Like The Ramones and Motorhead before them, Descendents have found a sound that doesn’t need to evolve because it’s fully formed and compelling no matter what year you drop it in. Taking a listen to their latest album, 2021’s 9th & Walnut, it’s striking how much they still sound like the snot-nosed brats that gave the world Milo Goes to College in 1982. Aukerman’s voice sounds a little more sanded down by time but the guitars still buzz like caffeinated hornets, and Bill Stevenson’s teenage caveman beats still thud with unerring precision. The Van Buren, 401 West Van Buren Street“If growing up means being like you, then I don’t want to be like you,” Milo Aukerman sneered on 1985’s “I Don’t Want To Grow Up.” The song (and album of the same name) feels like a mission statement, one that Cali punk godfathers the Descendents have lived up to over the course of 45 years of playing three-chord wonders.
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