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Spreading the Logik

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Members of local band Logik, from left: vocalist/guitarist Adam Sienicki, drummer Nick Segall, guitarist Christian Cheney and bassist/vocalist Jim Berkenkamp and. The band is making waves with other local headliners and will perform at Buzz Funbar in Scot

A colorful array of fireworks burst into the night sky, causing car alarms to blare loudly in the parking lot of the Bash on Ash Saturday. It's mayhem. It's madness. And it's all due to holiday festivities taking place in downtown Tempe.

While part of Tempe celebrates Christmas cheer, another part of the city prepares for a big ass punk show at the Bash where a handful of local acts -- including rising Valley rockers Logik -- performed to celebrate Four Banger's CD release.

Logik is comprised of vocalist/guitarist Adam Sienicki , guitarist Christian Cheney, bassist/vocalist Jim Berkenkamp and drummer Nick Segall.

These guys aren't newbies to the local scene. The members from "straight up central Phoenix" have been making beautiful music since 1995.

"It's a lot of '80s metal mixed with more modern rock and some pop punk," Sienicki says of the band's sound, which showcases influences from Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Boston, Rush, Green Day, Strung Out and Jawbreaker.

During their time together the band has dealt with everything from juggling line-up changes to trying to make it in the local scene.

"The odds of making it these days and having this be your thing is really unlikely because there's too many bands out there," Segall says.

"It's basically hard to stand out," Sienicki adds.

But Logik does stand out. Local bands want to share a bill with them and fans can be heard bragging about their shows. Even The Edge noticed. The radio station recently added them to their list of rotating local bands -- which also includes Redfield, Four Banger, Hello John, Sixth Year Senior and No Gimmick -- to perform at Buzz Funbar Thursdays as part of "Ska-Punk" night.

"We played our first show there on Thanksgiving night," Sienicki says. "It was a great turn out."

If you can't catch them at the Buzz, Sienicki says they usually perform once a week. "We'll play anywhere that will have us," he says.

When asked how crazy their shows become, the words "sheep," "inebriated" and "wang" come into play, but you'll have to ask them more about that some other time. Berkenkamp only explained the latter.

"Nick got completely naked one time and was sitting on top of his drum stool with his arms in the air," he says. "Someone in the audience had a video camera and got a close up of his wang."

Logik, which has played with national acts such as Sugarcult, Guttermouth, Nerf Herder, L7, Buck-O-Nine, Rufio and All, released two albums and is preparing to release a third early next year.

"The [last two albums] are really old," Sienicki says. "Our first one was in '96 and we were all in high school so you could tell the big difference now. And our second one was in 2000 and we had a different drummer at the time and we were playing a lot faster stuff. Now we're just working on our new one."

Ultimately, the group hopes to sign with a label some day.

"We'd be happy with any label that won't put us on the back burner and actually promote [the album]," Berkenkamp says. "We got turned down by Fat Wreck Chords twice," Sienicki says. "You can do it, too. You can send a demo of anything and then they'll write you a letter and tell you what they think of you. They have like this little checklist of stuff."

Though they're not signed yet, the band couldn't be in a better place with punk rock gaining more attention -- especially on a local level.

"The last six or seven months have been good for the band," Sienicki says. "We're making more friends with people in the scene. It seems like the bands are looking out for each other now as opposed to trying to one up each other, so it's pretty cool."

Reach the reporter at kelly.ann.wilson@asu.edu.

Logik at Buzz Funbar , 10345 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale. 8 p.m. Dec. 26. 480-991-3866.


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