Cheekface Pays Tribute To Superdrag With Cover Of “Sucked Out”

Cheekface might be one of the most recognizable bands today…in that, when you hear a Cheekface song, you immediately know it’s the LA trio of Greg Katz, Amanda Tannen, & Mark “Echo” Edwards. This is even true when the band is cover a gem from 1996 like Superdrag’s Sucked Out.

“I think ‘Sucked Out’ is one of the best songs about the loneliness of being in a band.” says Katz. “Each lyric captures a unique bad and insecure part of doing this. There’s the scenesters who turn on their favorite band at the first hint of success, and there’s the callous industry people that make bands feel validated until they get dropped. What’s left after all that? Some musicians who pinned their dreams on making music together, now left by the roadside to be picked apart by hyenas, the only tombstone the stub of an article on Wikipedia. Superdrag are heroes for writing something so vulnerable when they were on the verge of both the mainstream success and one-hit-wonderdom that the song is about.”

How relevant is a song from 1996? According to Katz, it’s very much still relevant: “To me, with the way the streaming industry now treats every song as an interchangeable sound worth a third of a penny, literally sucking out the value from creative work to fund the world’s most evil shit, this song felt more salient in August of 2025 than it did when I first heard it.”

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