队名： Sugarcult
译名：sugarcult
组队国籍： 美国(加洲)
组建时间： 1998 年
风格： pop punk/power pop/rock
来自美国加利福尼亚州的朋克乐队Sugarcult，和大多流行朋克那样，歌曲充满青春活力，且不乏硬核的劲暴的旋律，还能找到SCHOOL-PUNK的曲风，非常有美国流行PUNK充满活力的FEEL.
【乐队成员】 主唱,吉他手,词曲作者: Tim Pagnotta 贝斯,合唱: Airin Older 吉他手: Marko DeSantis(also knows as Marko 72) 鼓手: Kenny Livingston 前鼓手: Ben Davis(2003年离队)sugarcult演唱时的照片(4张)
【组建过程】 主唱Tim和鼓手Ben(当时弹贝斯)在学校结识，之后认识现任贝斯手Airin，他们三人成了好朋友，Tim邀请Airin加入他们的乐团，Ben担任鼓手，Airin弹贝斯。之后Tim在演唱会后台遇到Marko，缘分所至,当时两人身上穿的衣服很相像，Tim邀他加入乐队担任吉他手。后来Ben因为酗酒离开了乐队, Kenny Livingston(乐队Lefty的前鼓手)代替了Ben. 关于乐队名称Sugarcult,是来源于主唱Tim家附近的女同性恋.他称这些邻居为”Sugar Cult girls”.
【乐队作品】 Sugarcult于1997年发行他们的首张专辑《Eleven》,并于1999年再版.第二张专辑《Wrap Me Up in Plastic》发行于2000年,此专辑中一些名作仍被收录于第三张专辑「Start Static」当中并于2002年5月又再度发行. 此前Sugarcult于2001年由Rumbo唱片发行了他们的第三张专辑《Start Static》,这是鼓手Ben 离团前的最后一张作品.2004年4月13日,大碟《Palm Trees and Power Lines》发行, 首周就卖出了2万2千张,在Billboard上也有46位的成绩.《Back to the Disaster》是Sugarcult于2005年发行的live CD/VCD.《Lights Out》—他们的最新专辑,于2006年9月12日由V2唱片发行,发行后乐队开始了秋季和冬季巡演.
by Greg Prato
The Santa Barbara, CA, alternative rock quartet Sugarcult (singer/guitarist Tim Pagnotta, guitarist Marko DeSantis, bassist Airin Older, and original drummer Ben Davis (who was later replaced by Kenny Livingston) took their name from a moniker that lesbian neighbors who lived next door to the band called themselves. Forming in 1998, the band's first show (a trio at the time) was opening for Superdrag at a local club. It was here that they met DeSantis -- who'd previously played with such bands as the Ataris, Nerf Herder, and Swingin' Utters -- and he soon moved from audience to bandmember. Sugarcult debuted on Ultimatum in 2001 with Start Static and scored hits with the songs "Stuck in America" and "Bouncing Off the Walls." They jumped on the summer's Warped Tour for what should have been two weeks, but fan response was so positive, the band wound up staying for the entire two months. The DVD Action appeared in 2002; Davis exited the group the following year to be replaced by ex-Lefty drummer Kenny Livingston. Jumping to Fearless Records, the slightly darker Palm Trees and Power Lines followed in 2004 and peaked at number one on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart. Sugarcult issued the live CD/DVD Back to the Disaster a year later. The guys continued to hone their chops on the road; they earned a spot as openers for Green Day's American Idiot tour, took top billing on the 2005 Take Action Tour, and hit the main stages of festivals like Warped Tour, Japan's Summer Sonic Festival, and the U.K.'s Glastonbury, Reading, and Leeds festivals. Sugarcult's most focused effort to date, Lights Out, appeared in September 2006 on V2.