BeatNonStop A Weblog by Chris Macias Bee pop music critic Music geek (n. myü-zik 'gEk) 1: A person who proudly wore KISS commemorative pajamas in third grade. 2: A person who owns multiple copies of the same album, still buys vinyl and has a room dedicated to 2,000 or so CDs and records. 3. A person who wrote a five-part series about traveling with a local band in their stinky van - and loved every minute of it. 4: Chris Macias, the Bee's pop music critic, serving Sacramento's music scene since 1999.

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March 21, 2008

Wake up

All right, get your minds out of the gutter. STD is a local pop-punk group that named itself as an acronym of the band members' first names (Steve/Stephen, Thomas, Dalton). The group was first known as Syndrome back when it was competing in Skip's Music's "Stairway to Stardom" program, and Steve Mahoney was the group's coach. Mahoney the mentor then became the band's singer, and STD was born. The group's song "Wake Up" is this week's "Sunday Single," so check it out and rock on.

STD
Song: "Wake Up"
Style: Pop-punk with a metal edge
Members: Steve Mahoney (guitar/vocals), Dalton Simpson (guitar/vocals), Stephen Coggins (bass), Thomas McFall (drums).
Influences: Bad Religion, Rancid, Metallica, Pink Floyd, the Secretions
Behind the song: "It's basically a song about people who can't take personal responsibility for their own life and want to blame other people," says Mahoney. "All of our songs are a band effort, and this particular one came from a guitar riff that Dalton had. He had a set of chords that became the chorus. When we first started playing it we kept moving to a higher and higher tempo speed. We wound up at 200 beats per minute."
See them: April 11 at the Underground (2401 Olympus Drive, Roseville).

Here's the player to hear "Wake Up":

On the Web: www.916std.com or www.myspace.com/stdsacramento

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