Bay Area musician Kevin Nichols refers to his music as "prunge," which is short for pop-grunge, as he explained in an interview with What's Up! Magazine. "My idea of ‘prunge’ is basically a combination of pop and grunge. Like, Nirvana’s Nevermind is in my mind a pop-grunge album, where as Bleach and In Utero are grunge… I wanted to get more of an element of power pop in there too, with heavy, heavy riffs in there and whatnot."
You can definitely hear that coming through in his new single "My Friend," which sounds like an alternate version of '90s pop punk that pulled more from Dinosaur Jr and less from the Descendents. It's a catchy, crunchy, unabashedly fun song, and it's the first single off Kevin's upcoming album Disappointer, which is due October 9 via Slang Church, who also put out the recent benefit compilation Long Armed Bill's Summer Comp (Vol. 1) that Kevin is featured on.