Dash Rip Rock

If you know, you know. Dash Rip Rock shows are a cut-loose good time-- a high-octane collision of irreverence, distortion, and raw guitar-driven grit. This legendary Louisiana Music Hall of Fame trio and longtime indie stalwart fuse roots rock, garage rock, country-punk, and Southern swagger to earn praise from The New York Times for their “fluency in American roots music with a robust dose of punk-rock spirit” and from SPIN as “undeniably the South’s greatest rock band.” With 17+ underground-classic albums, a loyal cross-genre fan base spanning rock, alt-country, psychobilly, and punk, plus a 1990s radio hit with their tongue-in-cheek anthem “Let’s Go Smoke Some Pot,” Dash Rip Rock continues to deliver electrifying live shows.

Founder, lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Bill Davis is often credited as a pioneer of country punk, cowpunk, and alt-country—genres that merge rock, outlaw country, and punk attitude. In interviews, Davis describes his music as deeply roots-based. The Austin Chronicle hails him as “the brains behind Dash’s brawn, a barroom poet with a wicked sense of humor and a shameless knack for a good lick.”