Them Terribles are your new favorite band. Front man (and chief songwriter) Matt Green’s vocals croon and crack like the lizard king choking on a mouthful of pop rocks and soda. He’s a transplant, born in New Jersey, then adopted by Los Angelino parents who happened to live next door to a member of The Eagles, who incidentally kick started Matt’s music fixation by giving him a drum kit.

Eventually, Matt ditched the drums in favor of guitar and piano after moving up to Santa Barbara where he met his future partners in crime: Guitarist Jonny Black and Joey Benenati whose dad (a member of underground power-pop legends The Tearaways) raised him on a steady diet of verses and choruses.

After cutting their teeth as teenage punters in the scrappy punk band Standard Issue back in 2003; the three of them moved down to Los Angeles, hooked up with Bay Area exile Geoff Franklin, and went to work on what would come to be known as Them Terribles. There recent self-released EP, “Rock, Paper, Terribles”; features songs like “Tangerine” and “Bullets & Guns”, upbeat anthems that are bound to make your stereo turn up with reckless abandon.

“Yellow Lines” and “True Love” veer off into the time zone between last call and the morning after.