Girl Trouble are a garage-punk band from Tacoma, Washington, who have been powering out guitar-based coolness since 1983, and if history teaches us anything, it’s that bands who have been around that long either get tired and run out of ideas or they find a good groove that they can ride almost infinitely. Girl Trouble fall into the latter category, and they continue to find joy in three chords, a cheap guitar run through a cranked-up amp, and a stomped-out 4/4 rhythm.
2026’s As Is is the first studio album from Girl Trouble since 2005’s The Illusion of Excitement, and if a two-decade-plus recording layoff might suggest they’ve gotten a bit rusty, a couple spins of the album confirm that’s hardly the case. Kurt P. Kendall’s big, beefy vocals, Kahuna’s…