Music Style Hi-Energy Rock N Roll

Musical Influences Real Kids, Ramones, Dead Boys, Electric Frankenstein, Hellacopters, Stooges, Turbonegro

Similar Artists The Hellacopters, The Mooney Suzuki, The Hives, The Vines, The Strokes, Ramones, Electric Frankenstein, The Dead Boys, The Queers, Buzzcocks, The Wipers, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Supersuckers, Zeke

Artist History ROCKET CITY RIOT formed in 1998 by vocalist Sean Stiletto and multi-instrumentalist John Mark King as part of the HI ENERGY ROCK N ROLL movement lead by bands like Electric Frankenstein, The Hellacopters and the Gaza Strippers. The following year, RCR recorded its first full-length album We Name the Guilty Men and cemented its place in Rock N Roll history with an appearance on the first volume of the seminal 13-volume Fistful of Rock N Roll compilation series, the modern equivalent of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Hi Energy Rock N Roll bands play loud and snotty rock with influences ranging from Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Muddy Waters to Iggy and the Stooges, the MC5 and AC/DC. It’s an infusion of style and substance into the inflated and commercialized punk scene dominated by over-hyped bands like Blink182 and Green Day. Twenty Stone Blatt Records of Scotland released RCR’s first album to rave reviews in the U.K. press in 1999. Meanwhile, RCR made several compilation appearances in the USA while recording their second album, pop killer. Stiletto left the band before pop killer was finished and RCR went on a two-year hiatus. RCR re-appeared in Washington D.C. in early 2002 with King on lead vocals and guitar, Pete Martone on bass and Alan Slimak on drums and have played many successful shows in the D.C./Northern Virginia area, proving that fans of good music are starving for something both new and classic: brand new ROCK with deep roots. RCR is in the process of finishing pop killer and working another album, both of which will be released later this year as a double album on TSB.

Group Members John Mark: Guitar and Vocals; Dave Seiden: Lead Guitar; Bryan Hindert: Bass; Alan Slimak: Drums

Albums We Name the Guilty Men (5/99 TSB Records); POP KILLER (2003 TSB Records)

Press Reviews First Album, "We Name the Guilty Men," 8 out of 10 (Metal Hammer June 1999). 2nd album: D-FILED Web Zine, "Pop Killer" (TSB): There's a new breed of punks out there led by the likes of Electric Frankenstein, The Hellacopters and The Street Walkin' Cheetahs. Instead of taking their cue from Billy Corgan or Fred Durst, they're reaching back to the very roots of punk like MC5 and The Stooges. ROCKET CITY RIOT's "Pop Killer," the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist John Mark King, has all the filth and fury of the above bands and then some. Tunes like "I'm Gonna Make You Bleed," "All I Got" and the Ramones cover "Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy" are the real article. Fast, raw and powerful. But King also shows himself to be a real pop craftsman with "She Is All I Ever Wanted," a love song that provides a glimpse of another side to this nasty punk rocker. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Location Washington, DC - USA

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