Is It A Supergroup If You’ve Never Heard of the Other Bands?

In what is sure to be a crazily pop-laden project, Mike Yannich (the Ergs!), Jesse Thorson (Pretty Boy Thorson), and Katie Naden (The God Damn Doo-Wop Band) have formed a new group called Automatic Weapons. According to a post made by Naden, there are “Two songs set to be recorded after Christmas and before New Years” and that they are “So happy you’ll wanna puke.”

Seriously — go listen to the Ergs! and the Doo-Wops. You will have melodies stuck in your head for days.

The songs will see release on a 7″ from Traffic Street Records, which is just about one of my most favorite record labels out there right now. I’d love Sam and his label even if the only thing he put out was the stellar Dangerous Intersections series of four-way splits. They’re ridiculously cheap, and probably the best way to get hipped to the various bands kicking ass in the pop-punk underground right now (i.e., Shang-A-Lang, the Dopamines, the Measure [sa], et al).

Listen to some God Damn Doo-Wop Band over at Minnesota Public Radio’s website.