Artist description Fast and loud semi-melodic noise.

Music Style Alba-core

Musical Influences The Damned, The Dickies, The Buzzcocks, The Who

Similar Artists The Dickies, maybe.

Artist History Formed in San Francisco in 1994.

Group Members Mic Stand, Gym Stench, Pee Schitt, JC Superstar

Instruments Two guitars, bass, drums

Albums The Doormats, Over Macho Grande, and A Cup of Tea, A Cookie, and The Doormats

Press Reviews FOR POP CULTURE KIDS the Doormats, it's all about Star Wars and bad '70s television. Opening salvo "The Wars" is a surfy punk rock rendering of the Imperial march. Other similarly themed songs include "Uncle Owen" and "Admiral Akbar Eyes." In "Burt and Loni," singer-guitarists J.C. O'Donnell and Mike Schmitt sing, "I guess Burt ain't so smart / For letting it fall apart / Now he's lonely / Bald and homely / Bankrupt from alimony." Their chuckleheaded lyrics and deft pop-punk style seem inspired by the Canadian gods of tongue-in-cheek hesherism Chixdiggit. The epic opening of "Dipspit" (actually the theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind) leads into a minute or two of a questionably original tune. Its coda quotes "Sunshine of Your Love." They use Heil talk boxes and wahwah pedals on "Ron Vargas East Coast 1/95" and "SWAT" to emulate the sound of adultspeak in Peanuts cartoons and Peter Frampton passages, respectively. At least you'll always recognize a song or two at a Doormats show. - Howard Myint, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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