Summercamp

Summercamp were a Santa Barbara, California, band whose story starts in 1987, when Tim Cullen and Sean McCue, both singers and guitarists, met in high school. Fellow student Misha Feldmann soon joined on bass, and drummer Tony Sevener completed the lineup in 1994. Their sound was sun-bleached alternative rock with a pop heart: crunchy guitars, two voices and hooks that stick like sand to wet feet.

With Chris Shaw producing, they released their debut, Pure Juice, on Maverick Records in 1997. "Drawer" gave them a chart single in the U.S., a jittery, earworm-heavy rocker, while "Should I Walk Away" went Top 10 in Japan. They toured hard behind it, across the US, Europe and Japan, playing the second stage at Lollapalooza, Pukkelpop and the very first Fuji Rock Festival, and sharing bills with Failure, Poster Children, Tonic and fellow Santa Barbara band Toad the Wet Sprocket.

A second album was finished, with a video shot for it, but it never came out, and trouble with the record company led to their breakup in 2001. They reunited in mid-2015, played a reunion show at Velvet Jones in Santa Barbara on August 8, and put out a new single, "PeachTree", through Bandcamp on August 28.

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