Catch Ultimate Fakebook’s reunion show at the RecordBar tomorrow night

They may have grown up on glam-metal; but the guys in Ultimate Fakebook sound more like rockers mixing the Get Up Kids’ perky pop-punk hooks with the distortion-drenched rock of the Replacements.

The band’s first decade of existence — roughly spanning 1994 to 2003 — was highlighted by the band’s second album, 1999’s This Will Be Laughing Week. It was re-released a year later by Sony; but the LP was too catchy for post-grunge malingering and too muscular for Modern Radio, and the band’s major label tenure was short-lived. Another album and EP followed before Ultimate Fakebook’s split in 2003.