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Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol Announce Tour Dates for May and June

Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol are headed out on tour once again starting next month in their native Texas and hitting up the East and West Coasts in succession. I gotta be honest with you, I’m still not really sure how I feel about this band. They released their sophomore album, Doom-Wop (review here), this past Fall to the usual swell of social media hyperbole (that’s nothing to hold against the band or anyone else, mind you; it’s fun to be excited about music and you might say that’s why I do this), building on their 2020 debut LP, Burger Babes… From Outer Space! — likewise fortunate in riffs and unfortunate in cover art — and I dug the crap out of it.

Really, no complaints. I’ll save you the trouble of (not) reading that review: Heavy tones, quirk, fun vibes with tight songwriting and performance to back it up. Reminded me of early-Floor/Torche in a positive way and had its own persona to reside in a post-Red Fang universe of good-time groove. Eight-string guitar and so forth. And they’re a DIY band who tour hard, put in the time, effort and cash to do the thing they believe in doing. If you can’t respect that, well then what the hell do you believe in?

So what’s the missing piece for me jumping on the bandwagon? I’ve given it actual-thought, like, in real life, and I think it’s just that I haven’t seen them live yet. I don’t know that I’ll get to rectify that on this tour — Brooklyn seems to be getting farther and farther away these days; to think I used to complain about having to drive to The Continental — but I hope at some point this year to catch them if I can and while we’re being honest, I’m fairly certain that if/when I do get the on-stage experience, all the cartoon-hamburger-ladies in the world won’t be able to stop me from singing their praises, so covering them until I eventually, hopefully, get there I guess is a way covering my bases. So after the fact I can look back on a post like this and tell myself, “see, I knew they’d be awesome.”

I’ve included the stream of Doom-Wop and the trio’s Katie McDowell-directed video for the ultra-catchy “Heel” here, in case you’d also like to dig in, and of course the dates for their newly announced tours come courtesy of the PR wire:

Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol

Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol announce US headlining tour, including Shaky Knees & Thin Line Festivals

Austin trio Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol announce summer U.S. tour dates, including Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta and Thin Line Festival in Denton. Please see all dates below.

RBBP released their latest album Doom Wop in September 2022. Hear Doom Wop on your favorite streaming service HERE: https://ampl.ink/2YGEb

With their 5th studio release, Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol is putting a name to the style of fuzzed out, overdriven, melodic, groovy music they have been making since 2016. In 9 concise, no bullshit songs, RBBP demonstrates their ability to blend the merciless low end of Leo Lydon’s 8-String guitar, Aaron Metzdorf’s masterful chordwork on the bass, and Sean St.Germain’s driving drumwork. Lydon and Metzdorf’s vocal melodies cut through the high frequencies to deliver fresh layers to the hooks that RBBP fans have come to love.

As the name implies, Doom Wop is a heavy, melody-driven, party metal album. With riffs as big and dumb as ever, and lyrics that stab at the worst members of society and ourselves (while keeping tongue firmly in cheek), listeners will find all the elements that make up the soul of RBBP on this record.

Doom Wop is available on CD and download, released on September 23rd, 2022. Vinyl LP coming in May 2023.

RBBP LIVE 2023:
04/21 Houston, TX – Black Magic Social Club
04/22 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
04/29 Denton, TX – Thin Line Fest
05/06 Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival
05/07 Nashville, TN – The 5 Spot
05/09 Charlotte, NC – Snug Harbor
05/10 Washington, DC – Quarry House Tavern
05/11 Cambridge, MA – Middle East Upstairs
05/12 Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus
05/13 Philadelphia, PA: Kung Fu Necktie
05/14 Pittsburgh, PA – The Funhouse at Mr. Small’s
05/15 Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle
05/17 Oklahoma City, OK – The Blue Note
06/09 Los Angeles, CA – Permanent Records Roadhouse
06/10 San Francisco, CA – The Kilowatt
06/13 Seattle, WA – Substation
06/14 Portland, OR – High Water Mark
06/16 Salt Lake City, UT – Aces High Saloon
06/17 Denver, CO: Hi-Dive

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Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol, Doom Wop (2022)

Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol, “Heel” official video

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One Response to “Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol Announce Tour Dates for May and June”

  1. Dave #1 says:

    There guys seem fun, if they came to my lame ass city i’d go see them and get weird.

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