Doctor-Striker white.jpg — DOCTOR STRIKER

San Francisco, CA

About/Bio

Imagining a sonic world that diverged from our own in 1991, Doctor Striker shreds and roars over heavy beats, guitar riffs, bass lines, and synth hooks. He brings the classical and punk worlds together with training and discipline to electronic pop to create a political, personal and incisively optimistic brand of music.

Doctor Striker's lyrics, brutally simple in the punk tradition, are inspired by his upbringing in recession-battered metro Detroit and subsequent life in Oakland, California. His formal training in economics and history at the University of Michigan bring an uncommon depth and historical context. Doctor Striker exclaims: "If you fight the man, you are the man If I'm rich, no one can touch me. / If I'm rich, I am the law. / But I'm poor, I don't care. / I am poor, I am free."

Doctor Striker teamed up with Guinevere Q, Chris Meeder, and Young Sun for the live shows to create a full sensory, theatrical live experience. He crawls across the floor shredding and chanting while Guinevere plays the bass and climbs tables. Chris frantically shreds and fills the sound with his tones. Young Sun drives the drums.

Doctor Striker is celebratory and critical, insightful but ecstatic. By committing to a pop ethos, he avoids joining the half-baked rocker-philosopher tradition. Indeed, if Doctor Striker believes in anything, it's in the eternal truth of heavy riffs. Though he's not shy about his vision of utopia:

"Going in to work / We party till it hurts / Sleeping at the desk. / Dream, Party, Rest."

Press

"Energy has always been huge in my life as far as stage performance, and that is something the Doctor has no shortage of, as he approaches everyone in the crowd. Since I have moved here, he has been the only performer besides myself [who is] not scared of getting all up in the audience's face and performing. He is truly a one man outfit that can't be missed, dressed for success in his lab coat."

-Lee Austin Hoffman, Editor/Founder of Bang Magazine

"Doctor Striker, is an electronic-synth-pop outfit that is reminiscent of that amazing band from Revenge of the Nerds. [Their] live show is ...out of this world."

-Victor Valle, Board of Directors for The Bay Bridged

"Doctor Striker is a heavy pop band based in Oakland, CA, known for their “incisively optimistic” brand of music: an aggressive fusion of party time rock and roll, catchy electronic pop, shredding guitar solos, and nasty industrial bite...they’re rapidly gaining a reputation for themselves as a band that has to be seen live...You’re not just going to a bar to hang out with friends, and kind of listening to the band playing off in the corner. When you go, you become part of the show."

-Alex Sun Liu, Editor of LEX Talk Music