Kevin Bronson on September 13th, 2012

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As long as there is modern rock radio, there will be bands who seem to exist for the expressed purpose of making it there. That’s not to disparage Orange County-bred quintet the Bolts, who dispense full-throttle rock ’n’ roll better than most, especially for their young age. There’s no indie navel-gazing here, just three brothers – Adam, Heath and Austin Farmer, joined by Matt Champagne and Ryan Kilpatrick – trying to connect the dots between rock’s past and present. The quintet’s four-vocalist harmonic is distinctive for the kind of rock they’re doing, and those harmonies, with their tight guitar-keys-bass-drums, have been enough to put the Bolts a cut above in local battle-of-the-bands frays. They look almost too boy-band to wield a scruffy single like “Walk Away” (from their “Fall 2012” EP, out next week), but good looks, like good licks, never hurt your chances on the FM dial.

||| Download: “Walk Away”

||| Live: The Bolts celebrate the release of their EP with a show Saturday at the Troubadour that also features Hudson and Young Beautiful in a Hurry.

||| Watch: After the jump, check out the video for “Walk Away”: