The Descendents
9th & Walnut EPITAPH
Californian pop-punk pioneers give new life to some songs from the vault.
As labours of love go, 9th & Walnut takes some beating.
Named after the address of the Long Beach rehearsal space that was the scene of the band’s tentative baby steps back as far as 1978, it’s made up of songs from deep in their archive, some written before frontman Milo Aukerman joined in 1980. Work began on it in 2002, halted in 2008 when guitarist Frank Navetta died, and was completed during the pandemic.