Nothington

Composed by members of prominent Bay Area bands, Nothington is a new band that comes to reinforce the notion that California punk rock can still mean something. Jay and Gabe from Tsunami Bomb and Chris from Enemy You together with Mike from Time Spent Driving deliver a resounding debut, which is mostly a result of their time spent with their previous projects. All In begins with the line “I sleep for hours, and I’m so tired I can barely keep my eyes open, this world somehow drags me...

Most musicians start simple and then grow progressively more technical, not the other way around. But in Nothington's case, guitarist/singer Jay Northington and drummer Gabe Lindeman have scaled back the riffs and poppy time changes of their last band, the now-defunct Tsunami Bomb, to deliver a stark, straight-ahead pub-punk offering. Sure, they're not necessarily mining new territory-songs like "The Bottom Line," "The Last Time" and 'Where Is This...