"Rail-thin and frequently dressed in thrift-store Tom of Finland leather drag, the Tucson-born singer spent most of his 20s as a member of the famed Bay Area electropunk band Gravy Train!!!! prior to setting out with his own band at the peak of San Francisco's fertile late-'00s garage rock scene. Nobody who saw any Hunx and His Punx shows forgot them in a rush, with Bogart's reedy voice contrasting with the thick, earthy girl-group backing vocals of Erin Emslie and Shannon Shaw."
"The band decided to reunite in 2019, but one cataclysm after another kept their record Walk Out On This World from being completed, beginning with the mass shutdown of live music during the early stages of the COVID pandemic. In 2022, Shaw's fiancé Joe Haener died in a car accident just weeks before their wedding. Then, on January 7 of this year, the Eaton Fire tore through Bogart's home and left it severely damaged."
Hunx and His Punx combine Seth "Hunx" Bogart's reedy, theatrical vocals with thick, earthy girl-group harmonies to produce distinctive garage-punk rooted in the Bay Area scene. Bogart spent his twenties in Gravy Train!!!! before forming Hunx and His Punx at the peak of San Francisco's late-'00s garage revival. After 2013's Street Punk the band paused while Bogart pursued solo work and Shannon Shaw found success with Shannon & the Clams. A 2019 reunion was stalled by the COVID shutdown, the 2022 death of Shaw's fiancé, and a destructive house fire, yet the new record remains lively and tinged with apocalyptic undercurrents, ending in a salvo of explosions evocative of Dr. S
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