The Jr. Chemists brought 'a childlike wonder of making noise' to the Phoenix punk scene of the early '80s. Michael Cornelius went on to co-found JFA.

Back in the 80s, punk rock gang fights were ... I was like, ‘I don’t sing that high, and there’s too many leads’. You look at it now, and they’re great songs, brilliant songs, and ...

“I had really kind of grown up on nothing but punk rock—a lot of late ’70s, early ’80s punk rock,” he says. “And even proto-punk, like Iggy Pop and Velvet Underground and stuf ...