Alex Botkin runs the legendary venue 924 Gilman in Berkeley, as well as Lavasocks Records. He grew up playing in Sarchasm, a hard touring, deep-catalogued, popular Bay Area "bummer pop" group for the last decade .
Now his new band, Startle, has just released their first EP and is about to go on their first national tour.
STARTLE -
https://startle.bandcamp.com
LAVASOCKS RECORDS -
https://lavasocksrecords.bigcartel.com/
Playlist
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Letters U Wrote by eevie echoes & The Locations on Letters u Wrote (Ska Punk International) -
West Omaha is a Terrible Place and I'm Definitely Afraid to Die by Plastic Presidents on Good Times Can't Last (Ska Punk International) -
¡As If! by Startle on Terrible, Zero Stars! (Startle) New Local -
World Interrupted by Startle on Terrible, Zero Stars! (Startle) New Local -
Colorado's Dead by Foot Ox on Colorado's Dead (Single) (Foot Ox) -
All My Heroes (Wear Black Masks) by The Rotten Blue Menace on The Death of Skacore (The Rotten Blue Menace) -
Gospel Skabarnak by Lost Love on Goes To Skallege (Guillhem Records) -
No Se va by Professor Galactico on No Se va (My Grito Industries / LA Collective)