Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, effervescent indie poppers
Sun Club put a colorful, punk-edged spin on sunshiny pop. Self-taught musicians
Shane McCord, his brother
Devin McCord, and their neighbor
Mikey Powers started playing and writing songs together as teenagers, undergoing multiple band configurations and music styles. Honing their sound as multi-instrumentalist
Kory Johnson was added to the lineup in 2010, with bass player Adam Shane joining in 2012, they graduated to bar gigs and larger support shows for bands including
Alvvays and
Fidlar. The quintet released an EP, Dad Claps at the Mom Prom, in 2014. It was followed by the spirited full-length,
The Dongo Durango, which was recorded live in the studio with producer
Steve Wright and released in October 2015 on ATO Records. After touring extensively in support of the album, and with the promise that members would all continue to play in other projects,
Sun Club called it quits in 2017 after a pair of farewell shows in Baltimore and D.C. that May. ~ Marcy Donelson