THE LAST GANG + DOC ROTTEN | München

Name: THE LAST GANG + DOC ROTTEN | München
Start: 2025-08-13T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Unter Deck

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Wed, 13 Aug, 2025 at 08:00 pm

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Unter Deck | Munich, BY

THE LAST GANG:

“We don’t really have a theme,” says Brenna Red, singer-guitarist of The Last Gang. “We’re just a bunch of punk rockers who like to make music and write about things that make us feel good and angry and alive.”
“Good, angry, and alive” well captures The Last Gang as they release their third full-length, Obscene Daydreams (Fat Wreck Chords, September 20). With 11 tracks of sharply composed, no-punches-pulled punk, the album finds the Orange County quartet—rounded out by bassist Sean Viele, guitarist Ken Aquino, and drummer Sam Mankinen—in top form and ready to explode.
Recorded once again with producer Cameron Webb (Pennywise, Alkaline Trio, NOFX), Obscene Daydreams is the result of a new, more intentional writing process.
“We're not the kind of band that pumps out songs super quickly,” Red says. “We make sure everything has been thought of and try to stretch out the melodies to something we haven't heard before. This was the first time we ever did something like that on a deadline.
“I think we got it done, written, and recorded in less than a year, which is super-fast for us,” she continues. “Cameron is always like, 'You should do one album a year—the Beatles did it!’ I'm like, 'I'm not the goddamn Beatles!’”
Or NOFX, for that matter. Unlike on 2021’s Noise Noise Noise, Red didn’t workshop the songs with Fat Mike, whose band obligations kept him busy.
“I was a little nervous, just because I know last time Mike really wanted to have some input,” Red says. “So, I'm like, ‘God, I hope Dad approves.’”
“Dad” did approve, and Obscene Daydreams delivers The Last Gang’s signature mix of melodic hooks and raw feelings. While outrage and defiance figure prominently in those feelings—check the fury of “NRA Back 2 School” and “Hide the Antagonist,” or the class cannibalism of “Dogmatic Capitalizer”—love and pride figure just as prominently.
Opener “Electric Avenue” is an ode to ride-or-die friendship, and “Madness” is a full-on love song (or as close to one as a “nihilistic optimist” like Red can deliver). “Berlin to Rome” celebrates life on the road, and “Rumors” finds Red flexing her bad-bitch self-confidence. An interaction with a bigoted fan inspired “The Others,” forcing Red to make clear The Last Gang’s LGBTQIA+ allyship—and sneak in a Star Trek reference.
“It's called IDIC, Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations,” she says. “It's like the mantra of the Vulcan people, but I always love that phrase. Everything is possible out there—every gender, love, belief, thought, reality.”
The authenticity of The Last Gang’s music lies in those lived experiences, whether they’re nerdy Star Trek allusions or the “if you know, you know” details populating “Electric Avenue.” Each Last Gang album is a journal of sorts.
“I’m going to predict this,” Red says. “Every album we write from here on out will be about what's happening at that current moment in our lives. So, it’s a reflection of whatever happened to us for the past two, three years or so—and sometimes it's the same shit, different day.”
Even when that’s the case, The Last Gang will find something worthwhile to say.

DOC ROTTEN:

Doc Rotten gründete sich im Winter 2017 in Trenton, NJ. Nach einigen lokalen Auftritten ging das Punkrock-Quartett sofort ins Studio, um ihre Debüt-EP Fallout aufzunehmen . Sechs Monate später folgte ihre zweite EP Sick and Suffering , und dann gingen sie auf ihre allererste Tour. Ihre Arbeitermentalität und Arbeitsmoral treiben sie ständig zum Schreiben, Aufnehmen und Auftouren an. Ihre dritte EP Illusion To Choose , die von Pete Steinkopf von The Bouncing Souls produziert und aufgenommen wurde, erschien am 31. August 2018. Im September begann die Band zur Unterstützung dieser Veröffentlichung mit Konzerten in Japan, Europa und Nordamerika zu touren. Am 12. Januar 2024 veröffentlichte Doc Rotten ein 10 Titel umfassendes Album mit dem Titel: Doc Rotten, ihre dritte Veröffentlichung, produziert und konzipiert von Pete Steinkopf