Culture Abuse

With their mash-up of hardcore, melodic garage punk, grunge, and slacker indie, Culture Abuse rose out of the Bay Area in the mid-2010s. Their 2016 debut scored highly among both critics and fans and their well-received follow-up, Bay Dream, showed a greater creative range, but the group disbanded in 2020 when frontman David Kelling confirmed allegations of sexual misconduct. Formed in San Francisco in late 2013 by singer Kelling, guitarists Nick Bruder and John McCarthy, bassist Shane Plitt, and drummer Evan Pierce, Culture Abuse made their first official recorded entry with...