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Off!’s final act: Punk legend Keith Morris and company go out with a bang onstage and on film
On a recent Sunday morning on the 134 Freeway, singer and punk rock icon Keith Morris was behind the wheel of his Honda, rolling toward a final rehearsal with his band Off! in a Pomona studio. Blasting on his car stereo were songs from “Free LSD,” the quartet’s latest album, so Morris could reacquaint himself with the record’s far-out lyrics of alien invasions and mind control.
As he drove, the recording of nervous guitar riffs and Morris’ panicked vocals roared ominously from the speakers: “Disappeared without a trace / Another world beyond the realm / The flying lights, not of this Earth ... The hour of reckoning’s here!”
The song was “War Above Los Angeles,” a raging highlight from the 2022 album, written by Morris and Off!’s co-founder and guitarist Dimitri Coats. But after months of touring with his other band, the reunited Circle Jerks, Morris needed to clear his head of one band’s set list and replace it with the other. He would study up on Off! lyrics for another few days befor
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Off!
American band
This article is about the band. For the insect repellent brand, see Off! (brand). For other uses, see Off.
Off! | |
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Left to right: Coats, Rubalcaba, Morris, and McDonald in 2012 | |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Hardcore punk |
| Years active | 2009–2024 |
| Labels | |
| Spinoff of | Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Burning Brides, Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes |
| Past members | Keith Morris Dimitri Coats Autry Fulbright II Mario Rubalcaba Steven Shane McDonald Justin Brown |
Off! (stylized as OFF!) was an American hardcore punksupergroup, formed in Los Angeles, California in late 2009 by Circle Jerks/Black Flag singer Keith Morris, Burning Brides frontman Dimitri Coats, Redd Kross bassist Steven Shane McDonald, and Rocket From The Crypt/Hot Snakes drummer Mario Rubalcaba. In 2021, it was announced that the line-up had changed, with McDonald and Rubalcaba replaced by Autry Fulbright II and Justin Brown, respectively. The band were known for playing short, intense punk songs, with Pitchfork describing the band as "a vital bla
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Set It Off (band)
American rock band
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Set It Off is an American rock band formed in 2008 in Tampa, Florida. The band consists of lead vocalist Cody Carson, guitarist and bassist Zach DeWall, and drummer Maxx Danziger.
The band initially gained a large following through singer Cody Carson's YouTube channel. Set It Off was signed by Equal Vision Records after releasing a string of successful extended-play albums. In 2018, they signed with Fearless Records, which in February 2019 released Midnight, their fourth studio album. In 2022, they released their fifth studio album Elsewhere, in 2023, they announced that they had left Fearless Records and gone independent.[1]
History
Formation (2008)
Cody Carson and Dan Clermont, who met in their high school marching band, formed a band, which brushed against another band created by Austin M. Kerr and Zach DeWall while playing local shows. After high school, Carson left for Ohio to attend the Oberlin Conservatory of Mu
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