Ten years later, the Descendents have picked up exactly where they left off.
The California pop-punk act, which popularized that musical style before Green Day was barely out of grade school, returned to studio recording and musical stages last year with "Everything Sucks," a reaffirmation of everything the band stands for - coffee, girls and cheap fast food.In addition to the snotty title track, the new CD features caffeine-soaked blasts of pop ("Coffee Mug"), politically incorrect punk thrash ("Eunuch Boy") and "When I Get Old," a wistful number that serves as the companion piece to an earlier Descendents song, "I Don't Wanna Grow Up."
The Descendents perform with the Suicide Machines and Shades Apart on Friday, April 18, at Club DV8, 115 S. West Temple.
For nearly 10 years, the band blistered its way through often crass, more often funny and sometimes sensitive songs until original vocalist Milo Aukerman left in 1987 to pursue a doctorate degree in biochemistry. The four-piece band then changed its name to All and continued playing live under that name until last year, when Aukerman returned.
Confusingly, the quartet - which, as the Descendents, seemed to change members with every album, and changed vocalists almost every album as All - still plans to record under the "All" moniker, with vocalist Chad Price, once the current Descendents tour is finished.
Tickets for the show, which starts at 8 p.m., are $10 in advance from Crandall Audio in Orem; X-Mart, 165 S. West Temple; and the club during its nightly business hours.