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Date: 11/18/2020
WILBRAHAM – Despite not being able to play live shows for the past eight months, a Wilbraham-based garage band with a 90s feel, Wicked Good Dunk, is moving forward with their musical career by releasing their first album.
The band consists of Jacob Coite who plays the drums, bass, guitar and provides background vocals as well as produces the music, Jacob Ryan on bass and guitar and Jake Regulbuto as lead vocalist and guitarist. To simplify things, the three go by Coite, Jake and Steve, respectively.
Their debut album, “Dunkadelic,” has four songs, two of which were released as singles at the end of October. The band said they like to have fun with their music, with song titles like “That’s Baseball, Baby,” “Bold Move, Cotton” and “You Left Your Sweatshirt At My House And We Never Talked Again.”
While it is difficult to measure the success of this first album so far, the band said that they have 300 followers on Instagram and the two singles, “Tetherball” and “Bold Move, Cotton,” have more than 2,400 hits each.
Regulbuto, who writes most of the lyrics, said Wicked Good Dunk’s sound is a punk subgenre that he called “emo with pop tendencies.” The three create the music together and Ryan added, “We hope you enjoy it. We like to describe it as sad songs that sound fun.”
Wicked Good Dunk formed about a year ago. Ryan and Regulbuto were in a cover band together while in high school but decided they wanted to make their own music. After trying a couple of band lineups, Coite joined the two as the drummer.
“Before the COVID thing happened, we were playing pretty regularly,” said Coite. Ryan said the last live show they were able to perform was in Amherst in March.
“We got it in before the world fell apart,” he said with a laugh.
Coite lives in Wilbraham, which is where the band practices and records. Ryan is an East Longmeadow native and student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, while Regulbuto is a Connecticut resident attending college at Suffolk University. Despite the distance and quarantine restrictions, Wicked Good Dunk isn’t allowing anything to deter them. They are currently recording their second album.
“I don’t know what exactly our future holds right now, but once things open up again we want to get back to playing,” live shows, Ryan said.
“Dunkadelic” is available for download on Apple Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Band Camp and Napster – formerly Rhapsody. Some of the songs are also available on YouTube. Wick Good Dunk merchandise, including masks, shirts and records can be found at wckdgooddunk.bandcamp.com.