Biography
Emerging in the early 1980s, the hardcore punk outfit 7 Seconds stands as one of the most enduring acts to arise from California's opening punk wave, having originated in Reno, Nevada, before eventually settling in Sacramento. Frontman Kevin Seconds has remained the sole constant presence across the decades, while a mid-1980s reconfiguration brought guitarist Bobby Adams, drummer Troy Mowat, and bassist Steve Youth—Seconds' brother—into the fold. Several 7" singles appeared shortly after the band's inception, and by 1982 Seconds had secured a deal with the Better Youth Organization imprint. The trio of LPs issued on BYO reached its creative peak with the authoritative statement Walk Together, Rock Together. A late-1980s move to Restless yielded Soulforce Revolution and Ourselves, after which the group shifted to Headhunter and produced three albums there. In 1995, 7 Seconds inked its first major-label agreement with Epic, resulting in the release of The Music, the Message that same year. By the time Good to Go surfaced in 1999, however, the band had returned to independent status via the Side 1 label. Mid-2000 brought Scream Real Loud, and five years later the 13th LP, Take It Back, Take It On, Take It Over!, arrived. Across the group's history, Seconds has sustained parallel endeavors such as Drop Acid, Five Feet Ten Inches, and Mustard, while also issuing multiple solo recordings from the 1990s onward, among them a 2002 split acoustic collection on Asian Man shared with Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba.