Native San Franciscans Two Gallants have signed with Saddle Creek records, and their debut album The Throes (released on Alive Records just last year) got rave reviews from pretty much everybody. They even charmed hardened New Yorkers like a breath of west coast fresh air at the recent CMJ fest. Not an easy task during the over-booked, too hectic, schizo-like marathon music festival...To borrow a line from VICE, we'll describe them as "Two good-looking dudes from San Francisco that sound exactly like backwoods-ugly dudes from Nebraska (in the best possible way)." BM caught up with guitarist and singer Adam Stepehens to chat about the meaning of the word punk, kids in the UK, what it was like to sit in Sinatra's old dressing room in Reno and why they named their band after a story by James Joyce.