Autopolitan’s Joe Boyer started playing piano when he was 5 and formed his first band when he was 12.

“We played Nirvan and Green Day covers,” he says via phone. A utopolitan celebrates the release of its new album, Around Ways , with a show that takes place on Friday, Sept. 19, at Mahall’s 20 Lanes in Lakewood. Fuss and Nature Nvoke share the bill. “We played it all very badly. But not long after that, I started writing original material.”

His first band of note was the Flukes.

“I booked our first show from a pay phone in the cafeteria in high school," he says. "I spent time touring with that until early 2000s.”

He would join Cloud Nothings, the local-turned-national act, in the 2010s, but left the group to pursue his punk band Chomp, which fell apart a few years later.

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