Skaters

Skaters came together in New York City in 2012, but the story starts on the other coast, at a Los Angeles party in the summer of 2011, where Michael Ian Cummings, the singer and songwriter, crossed paths with English guitarist Josh Hubbard. A few months on, Hubbard rang to say he'd be landing in New York from the UK the next day, and Cummings wanted a gig out of it. They drafted drummer Noah Rubin and bassist Dan Burke, booked three shows, and learned a batch of songs Cummings and Rubin had been kicking around, plus a few Pixies covers for good measure.

Warner Bros. signed them, and their debut, Manhattan, arrived in 2014: scrappy post-punk revival and garage rock that sounds like last call at a downtown dive. The band were all bartenders at the time, and the songs are sketches of what they lived through and saw, and the characters who drifted through their first year together. John Hill recorded it in the API room at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, which gives the rattle a little polish without killing it.

In 2017 they left Warner Bros. and went independent, putting out their second album through Yonks Records.

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