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Local Bylaws Punk Band at 924 Gilman
Local Bylaws - Lead Vampire (Official Music Video)
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Local Bylaws - Lead Vampire (Official Music Video)

From our EP 'WORKING AGREEMENT' (April 20, 2022) LOCAL BYLAWS - “LEAD VAMPIRE” https://linktr.ee/localbylaws DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY: Loni Merellas and Marisa Pala Lyrics: Woke up to a parking ticket and a blurry picture of a bloody digit All day working on this site, Still got another seven hours til I’m out of here and playing tonight. But I’m broke and I broke down Morale is running low now Time is moving slow, but I've been through worse before And now I know I've got the knowhow Outrunning my life Like hourglass sand The lost boys are on fire An inky black cross Is stamped on my hand And I'm the lead vampire It’s all gonna be alright It’s all gonna be alright 2:30, I’m a little giddy in the misty morning of the sleeping city Down to my last seven bucks But at this very moment I just can’t make myself give a fuck That I’m broke and I broke down Maybe it’s a little lowbrow But after that kind of show, in the hazy afterglow It doesn’t matter where we go now. Outrunning my life Like hourglass sand The lost boys are on fire An inky black cross Is stamped on my hand And I'm the lead vampire It’s all gonna be alright It’s all gonna be alright There’s still something that keeps me in it Though this decline is more than 18 minutes Sometimes being in my head is just really hard (At least that’s what she said) I get sad but not completely I can always laugh at porta-john graffiti. I know there’s no way of knowing Which way to go but let’s just keep going.
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UNION-MADE POST PUNK FOR THE FUNCTIONING APOCALYPSE

Since forming in 2021, California's LOCAL BYLAWS have harnessed pure energy into their brand of ferocious, female-fronted punk rock. Having met online, they found an easy alliance when they realized they were all union workers (a UBC carpenter, an IBEW electrician, and a SAG-AFTRA actress), and this connection translated well into the music, lending an all-for-one ethos to their blue collar, glam-yet-gritty debut EP, Working Agreement.

The new full-length album boasts a more mature sound, equal parts distortion and harmony, drum-heavy and lyrically dense, but still poppy enough to sing along to. Recorded with Ryan Perras (Dan Andriano, Lektron, Asian Man Records), and mixed & mastered by Jack Shirley (Jeff Rosenstock, Deafheaven), the LP, Lost the Plot, is currently being released song by song on all streaming services.

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