Search - Magic Bullets :: "Spaceland and Part Time Punks Present: Magic Bullets [at the Echo - July 22nd, 2007]

Magic Bullets formed in San Francisco, California in 2004 with musicians primarily hailing from the Bay Area who had spent most of their musically formative years playing with or along side one another in various punk rock outfits. Vocalist Philip Benson and guitarist and primary songwriter Corey Cunningham first met in 2000 and later played together in The Cosmos. After a few years Cunningham and Benson called upon friends Colin Dobrin (drums), Ryan Lynch (guitar), Matthew Kallman (keys) and Nathan Sweatt (bass guitar) to form a new band to play music inspired by their favorite artists drawing from the likes of Orange Juice, The Sound, and The Feelies, to name a few. Magic Bullets was born. The San Francisco Chronicle aptly summarized the music of Magic Bullets as drawing from the emotional candor and jerky rhythms of the 80s post-punk era to carve a wistful but upbeat niche for itself in San Francisco s indie-pop scene.