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Never mind the seven-year hiatus. Swingin’ Utters has always been pissed off and politically charged, so it’s cool to see the Santa Cruz-based punk act back on the road after re-igniting the fire with last year’s biting and straight-to-the-point new album, Peace and Love.
In an interview last summer, front man Johnny Bonnel said that the album turned out so politically-oriented because “when sexism, racism and nationalism is the agenda… it’s time to speak up.”
Swingin’ Utters w/Lost In Society. Sat. March 30. Orpheum, Ybor City. theorpheum.com.
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This article appears in Mar 28 – Apr 4, 2019.