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It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. Behind the punk rock band Joyce Manor, there are three guys.

Barry Johnson, the singer, Chase Canobe, the guitarist, and Matt Ebert, the bassist.

These three dudes have known each other since high school, more or less. They grew up in the South

Bay of Los Angeles County, home to Los Angeles International Airport, the Delamo Mall,

and a few piers and aquariums. It's a pretty quiet place, the South Bay. In quiet places,

it turns out, are good incubators for loud music. The Minutemen, Black Flag, and Descendants all hail from that

same region. Joyce Manor formed almost 20 years ago, and pretty much from Note 1, they knew what

their sound would be, anthemic, sometimes nostalgic punk rock. Does it sound a little bit like

Blink 182 or Green Day? Yeah, a little bit.

But a little less adolescent or snide.

I mean, you know the weird things people used to say about pop punk.

They just dropped their seventh album.

I used to go to this bar.

Here's a track from it.

I know where Mark Chen lives.

Music from it. I know where Mark Chen lives. When you can't afford anything anymore, tell me how you're gonna, how you're gonna swim the

shoulder when you can't explain the damage onto your brain, but it's clear that it's severe

and it's here dusty Joyce Mayer

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