never mind the offspring, here come the stitches

the latest issue of the oc weekly has a great article summing up the history of one of the greatest orange county punk bands that you've probably never even heard of... the stitches.

"they captured the whole fucking seedy underbelly of oc that was actually going on at that time," hart says. "at that time, if you were into punk rock, you’d still get called a faggot for looking weird. but at a stitches show, you got to know people—they definitely brought people together. like, ‘fuck, where have you been all my life?’ and it was something everyone recognized as real. they stole punk back from all the jocks and snowboarders."