Pangs are/is:

Matt Mair Lowery - guitar & vocals
Justin Johnson - drums
Lance Workman - bass, vocals
Kyle Sheaffer - guitar, keyboards, vocals


Pangs Press Kit Downloads:
-- Stalemates & Sad Pastimes one sheet
(PDF, 655K)
-- Pangs Bio (PDF, 1.9MB)
-- Pangs 72dpi photo (JPG, 319K)
-- Pangs 300dpi photo (TIF, 1.5MB)
-- Pangs 600dpi photo (TIF, 4.5MB)
-- Pangs Press Kit Zip
(one sheet, bio, 600dpi pic, 6MB)
-- Pangs Press Kit Zip
(one sheet & bio, 2MB)

Pangs surfaced in 1996, when Matt issued a couple of home-recorded cassette releases in very limited runs. These recordings were grounded by drums tracks Justin had recorded prior to fleeing to South America to avoid something he would only describe as "legal trouble."

Several months later, Justin returned, and Pangs released another cassette, Spore Fraud Laundromat, which garnered a review in Tape Op.

With the addition of bassist/multi-instrumental rock maven Nathan Ruckman, Pangs better realized their garage pop vision on the 1999 release Northern Youth Exchange, which was also written up in Tape Op, and featured in the online Anti-Elitist Audio 'Zine. The band played a handful of shows after this release, and the song "Chronic Flashlight" from NYE was featured on We Are Not Alone: Songs For The Lo-Fi Generation, Volume 5 an international compilation put together and released by Alessandro Crestani on his amazing cassette label Best Kept Secret.

In 2001, Pangs started work with Kyle Sheaffer (Ex-Hustlers) on Stalemates & Sad Pastimes at his Studio Neal. During the (long) course of the recording, Nathan became a father. Though his spirit still pervades Pangs, his duties were assumed by the very talented and equally multi-instrumental Lance Workman (Ex-Hustlers).

Kyle recording Stalemates & Sad Pastimes.