by
Mike Huguenor on August 29, 2018
Long before electric scooters filled the streets, Jonny Manak at the Depressives were one of the tried and true staples of downtown San Jose. A homegrown ’77-style punk powerhouse, Manak and Co. have both the energy of the Hives and the California street pedigree of Rancid. And with recent songs like “Cold…
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Jonny Manak has always been a busy guy. It used to be that in addition to fronting his own group, Jonny Manak and the Depressives, he was playing in every other local punk rock band (Odd Numbers, Texas Thieves, the Forgotten to name a few), and would play whatever instrument they needed…
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Jonny Manak of Jonny Manak and the Depressives (full disclosure: Metro’s former in-house rock star) loves garage and punk rock with equal passion, at least that’s what his music suggests. He strings together bits of garage and surf from the 50s and 60s, early pissed-off punk rock from the late 70s and…
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