Kevin Bronson on September 18th, 2013

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L.A.-based garage-rockers Adult Cinema carbon-date to the late 1970s, when punk rock was morphing into a thing called new wave and power-pop bands were adapting their infectious hooks to soul and disco beats. Enormous fun at the time, and just as exhiliarating the way singer-guitarist Randy Michael and his quintet are doing it now. Michael didn’t just pop out of a loft in Hollywood – he has a long resumé that includes stints in Atlanta’s mod revivalists The Booze, along with gigs playing for Public Enemy, Butch Walker and London’s Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong. Now relocated to L.A., Michael has also stood in with Tin Nordwind’s Pyrramids and St. Louis punkers Living Things. (And he cameos as drummer in two of the new David Bowie videos.) Last summer, he released a mini-album as Randy Michael & the Sharp-Dressed Lads, but Adult Cinema is a more coed affair, including Kristin Brokaw (last spotted playing in Rocket), Katy Keys (Crimson Lust), Bosh Berlin (Living Things/Pyrramids) and Andy Moreno (Babylon Sweethearts). “Disorder on the Dance Floor” (and Michael’s self-directed video) shows a Knack for classic rock – Adult Cinema that is safe for the kids.

||| Live: Adult Cinema is playing the Monday night residency at Los Globos, this week featuring Kid Cadaver, We Are/She Is and Monster Paws.