Overnight Lows

The Overnight Lows issued their first proper full-length in 2010, yet the gritty Jackson, MS-based combo had already logged nearly fifteen years in the southern punk underground. At the center stood the husband-and-wife team of Marsh and Daphne Nabors, who adopted the Overnight Lows moniker in 1995 after earlier stints in the Comas and the power-pop punks Lover!. Their sound delivered scrappy, trashy punk that roamed the more boneheaded corners of the genre, propelled by buzzing guitars and indelible choruses while tipping a hat to the likes of the Angry Samoans and the “This Place Sucks”-era Queers, plus a dose of classic Black Flag intensity. Heart routinely trumped polished chops, and the resulting drunken, unruly live sets turned into local legend, prompting Memphis’ Goner Records to issue the band’s debut album, City of Rotten Eyes. On that record the Nabors were augmented by drummer Paul Artigues of New Orleans’ Die Rötzz.