Nightbeats: Pop-punk band Joyce Manor coming to Petaluma’s Phoenix Theater

DISNEY DREAM COME TRUE IN PETALUMA - Nothing screams pop-punk more than forming a band in the backseat of a car while pre-gaming for a hangout with Mickey Mouse over a bottle of booze in a Disneyland parking lot. Channeling rebellious teen angst with catchy melodies and pop hooks, Joyce Manor’s beginnings as a band were a perfect preview of the music soon to follow.

Starting in 2008 as an acoustic duo, singer Barry Johnson and guitarist Chase Knobbe named the project after a Los Angeles apartment complex when the pair needed a name to post on a flyer for their first show.

Quickly realizing they weren’t cut out for the duo life, the two decided to round out Joyce Manor’s sound by adding bassist Matt Ebert and drummer Kurt Walcher, who was later replaced by Jeffery Enzor in 2014.

After releasing two albums and thriving in the underground music scene, Joyce Manor gained mainstream attention and a few magazine covers, after a first major label release titled “Never Hungover Again.”

The ironic album art featured two drunk people who would clearly have a hangover after the picture was taken, an image all too many people could identify with. Bangers like “Heart Tattoo,” with lyrics about getting tattoos that “look bad,” became anthems for late teens who couldn’t help but relate to making poor choices but owning them rather than regret them.

Coming a long way since forming in the back seat of a car, Joyce Manor follows up on its own precendent of albums full of energetic, witty songs on its latest album, “Cody.”

Tracks like “This Song Is A Mess But So Am I,” sound like classic Joyce Manor songs and other tunes offer a new twist of coming to terms with aging like “Eighteen” where Johnson screams he “feels old today” at the end.

Making its way past a “Five Beer Plan” - an early Joyce Manor song - the band has toured the world, released four albums and are set to make a stop in Petaluma the first week of May. Make sure to get there early to catch San Jose’s awakebutstillinbed and Santa Rosa’s own Brown Bags, who just released a first album, “Twenty-Something Mutant Nobodies,” earlier this year.

Details: 8 p.m. Thursday, May 3, Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St., Petaluma. $18- $23, thephoenixtheater?.com

SANTA ROSA, HOW’D YOU GET SO FLY? - Peaking at number seven on the list of Billboard Hot 100 songs in 2003, Baby Bash’s “Suga, Suga” was one of the most iconic songs of the early 2000s. It seemed like every station you turned to would be playing this song, it was impossible to escape it. I’m talking Drake’s “Hotline Bling” status here.

The track, which featured Frankie J, was accompanied by a legendary music video that followed Jessica Sutta of the Pussycat Dolls dressed up as a UPS delivery woman, During a 2017 interview with Billboard, Baby Bash said it resulted in a lawsuit from UPS because the uniform Sutta wore was too “cheeky.”

Despite the number of years since its release and minor video setbacks, “Suga, Suga” still stands the test of time after 15 years and you can catch the Vallejo singer perform the song and other hits at Casa Del Mar in Santa Rosa.

Tip: The event is for age 21 and older, so make sure to bring your ID and remember Casa Del Mar enforces a dress code at events, collared shirts only and no one wearing hats, sports clothes and red or blue shoelaces will be allowed in.

Details: 10 p.m. Saturday, April 28, Casa Del Mar, 3660 Stony Point Road, Santa Rosa. $20, Facebook.com/Casadelmarsantarosa/

DARKSIDE OF THE MOONSHINE - Drinking moonshine is trouble waiting to happen and so is seeing Bay Area band Poor Man’s Whiskey in concert. Luckily, it’s the good kind of trouble, you know, the type you get into when you dance just a little too hard and stomp your foot a bit too loud.

Over the years, the band has set a self-imposed title for being a “high-octane hootenanny” and delivers with albums like “Roadside Attraction” and “Dark Side of the Moonshine.”

If you’re not into moonshine or whiskey, fear not, there’s plenty of good beer at HopMonk, where both Poor Man’s Whiskey with Highway Poets are playing.

Details: 8:45 p.m. Saturday, April 21, HopMonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol. $25, HopMonk.com

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