Team Dresch play Friday, June 7, at the Clock-Out Lounge. TAMMY RAE CARLAND
Team Dresch are back. Really.
Not “sort of back” or “sometimes back,” which are fair ways to describe the Portland-based queercore band’s off-and-on status over the past 15 years. No, Team Dresch are all the way back, just as they were in the 1990s: writing and recording songs, playing blistering shows, speaking truth to power, and generally being a kickass beacon of hope for queer, nonbinary, and otherwise marginalized punks everywhere. (And for plenty of straight and cisgender people, too.)
“We have lots of muscle memory,” the band’s namesake, Donna Dresch, says in a phone interview. “The fingers just go where they’re supposed to go without even thinking about it.”