Teenage Bottlerocket

Teenage Bottlerocket are a punk rock band who play in the tight, fast, funny, and frantic SoCal manner, even though they hail from Laramie, Wyoming rather than the Golden State. Ray Carlisle's rapid-fire vocals fire off snotty observations about various pop culture phenomena, Carlisle and Kody Templeman generate a steady buzz of downstroked guitars, and the rhythm section of Miguel Chen and Darren Chewka keep the songs hopping at a pulse suitable for pogo'ing or circling the pit. 2005's Total set the template for their attack, 2009's They Came from the Shadows featured several of their best-known songs, 2015's Tales from Wyoming was a raucous affirmation of their trademark style, and 2021's Sick Sesh! confirmed, to paraphrase one of its songs, that they were never going out of style, at least among fans of their brand of punk.