# Ex-Members of Culture Abuse Form New Band M.U.T.T.

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- Published: 2022-10-20T15:30:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

**Ex-Members of Culture Abuse Form New Band M.U.T.T.**

**9 Track Album ‘Bad To The Bone’ Out Now**

**Recorded at Jack Shirley’s Atomic Garden Studios**

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_“The band embrace the sugary and direct hooks of the Ramones and dirty it up with
some glammy rock stomp in the guitar department. An absolute melodic punk gem if
there ever was one.”- _**_No Echo_**

_“M.U.T.T. showcases early flashes of ex-band CULTURE ABUSE, explosive vocal delivery
and driving guitar tones with new single “Night Moves””- _**_Idioteq_**

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3 former members of **Culture Abuse** (John Jr, Shane Plitt, Matt Walker) and **
Dead To Me’s** Isa Knife have released _Bad To The Bone_, a new 9-track album from
their new project **M.U.T.T.**

**Stream ‘Bad To The Bone’ on DSP’s:** [https://orcd.co/badtothebone](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=11431081.29070.1.3dd6ef871e5f97457aad7c51318db34f)

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**“Born To Raise Hell” video:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtW9OXprQnk](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=11431081.29072.1.82b6a4e7ca218235fef1553424abf6e7)

**“High With You” video:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTacEqfTwjI](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=11431081.29073.1.65438fb68f4057a542bc7da7bb1336db)

**“Night Moves” video**: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSfO8XsrPFw](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=11431081.29074.1.15dddcc6d46698f98c1405d8a0d79fbc)

From the genre-defining power pop of The **Flaming Groovies** in the 70s to the 
breakthrough success of **Jawbreaker’s** gruff but saccharine melodic punk in the
90s, San Francisco’s longstanding legacy as an invaluable piece of the American 
underground musical landscape is hard to overstate. Emerging as worthy torchbearers
of that legacy are **M.U.T.T.**

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After the premature and fraught implosion of his previous band **Culture Abuse**,
John Jr. was left unsure of how to proceed. Between a fizzling long-distance collaboration
and an aborted hardcore project, nothing was quite falling into place. But after
sending some home recordings to fellow Culture Abuse alum Matt Walker, the ghost
of an idea began to take shape. At Walker’s behest, Junior booked time at **Jack
Shirley’s Atomic Garden Studios**. In need of extra hands to fill out the lineup
of a quickly emerging full-fledged band, Junior reached out to two more former Culture
Abuse bandmates, Isa Anderson and Shane Plitt. In short order, a lo-fi bedroom project
had morphed into a fully realized group, eager to move on from the shared trauma
of their previous band’s dissolution. Thus emerged **M.U.T.T.**

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On their raucous and pleasantly succinct debut LP, _Bad To The Bone_ (Quiet Panic
Records), Junior imagines **M.U.T.T.** as everything he wishes Culture Abuse could
have been but wasn’t. In place of radio-ready choruses and ever-slowing tempos are
unrelenting, frenetic, four-chord punk anthems. As much a love letter to the sleazy
glam rock that was once California’s chief export as it is to the bare bones punk
of The Ramones, **M.U.T.T.** is the musical equivalent of four friends out late 
on a warm summer night, looking for an empty parking lot to party in. _Bad To The
Bone_ is a masterclass in punk’s signature utilitarianism, offering up only the 
essentials and leaving little to the imagination. Evoking the charming trashiness
of **Amyl and the Sniffers** and the hook-laded simplicity of early **Joyce Manor**,**
M.U.T.T.** has hit the ground running and with each piston pumping in perfect rhythm.

At its core, punk has always served as kind of therapy for its devotees, and **M.
U.T.T.** is that principle in action. Acting as a cleansing fresh start for its 
members, _Bad To The Bone_ is a document of a band picking up the pieces and moving
forward the only way they know how. They don’t want to reinvent the wheel. They 
don’t want to change the world. They just want to play good old fashioned rock and
roll. And man, do they ever excel at it.  

M.U.T.T. - BORN TO RAISE HELL (official video)

[⌊M.U.T.T. - BORN TO RAISE HELL (official video)⌉⌊M.U.T.T. - BORN TO RAISE HELL (
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_“Born To Raise Hell” Video_

M.U.T.T. - HIGH WITH YOU (Official Video)

[⌊M.U.T.T. - HIGH WITH YOU (Official Video)⌉⌊M.U.T.T. - HIGH WITH YOU (Official 
Video)⌉
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_“High With You” Video_

M.U.T.T. - "Night Moves" (official video)

[⌊M.U.T.T. - "Night Moves" (official video)⌉⌊M.U.T.T. - "Night Moves&
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_“Night Moves” Video_

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