Comprised of members Tom Keenan (lead/rhythm guitar, vocals), Pete Mulford (lead/rhythm guitar, vocals), Cathy DeMarco (drums), and a host of bassists over the years (including Tom Carnali, Frank Schact, and Romeo Santo), the garage/punk-pop outfit Last Stand has been slugging it out since 1984, when they issued their first split single with Noonday Underground for the Taang! label, "Injun Joe" and "Scum Guns." A three-song EP followed in 1985, Coup D'etat, and a year later, their first full-length album, Approved Cuts. Further releases followed throughout the '80s (1988's Faith in Fate and 1989's Boston Callin) before the group went on hiatus by the mid-'90s. But eventually the quintet re-formed for a sellout reunion show in 1998 at TT The Bears in Cambridge, MA, resulting in their first full-length release in years, 2000's Any Battle Won. ~ Greg Prato