"This is our fourth or fifth time playing with the Accused and it's always been a blast," Jason McKibbin, frontman of infamous T-town punk band I Defy tells the Weekly Volcano's old, crusty Tacoma music afficionado, Potter, at weeklyvolcano.com. "It gets better every time. You won't see another show this intense." He's probably right. There's plenty of reasons why local music fans still talk about early '80s splatter rockers The Accused, and most of them simply have to do with how fucking kick-ass the band is. Usually, when old bands get back together it's just because they got lazy and found themselves in need of steady incomes to support the nutritional supplement addictions that followed coke addictions. But not The Accused. There's still fire in Tom Niemeyer's belly. You can hear it.

The Accused

With I Defy, Godspit, Sargent D, South Kitsap Infidels
Saturday, June 5, 9 p.m., $7
Hell's Kitchen, 928 Pacific Ave., Tacoma
253.759.6003