Artist description O'Doyle Rules is a rocking four piece from Houston, Tx. We pride ourselves on pioneering the "Dork Rock" sound. "Dork Rock" is a colorful mix of punk, ska, power-pop and just about anything else we can think of. We're a little too silly for our own good sometimes, but it's all in the name of fun.

Music Style Dork Rock/Ska/Punk/Power Pop

Musical Influences Goldfinger, Smoking Popes, Weezer, Nerf Herder, Sublime

Similar Artists Goldfinger, Impossibles, Nerf Herder, Weezer

Artist History It's your own fault. You, like the rest of the world, have been ignoring "dorks" and "geeks" and "nerds" most of your life, only paying attention to them when you wanted a good laugh or needed to feel better about yourself. You thought "Revenge of the Nerds" was the greatest movie ever, if only for its realistic portrayals, and you dismissed Star Trek as "just another fad." Well you've been blind for too long. The outcasts you thought had been stuffed in their lockers long ago are now slowly taking over the world. Just how many billions of dollars did Bill Gates make today alone? Over three years ago in a garage somewhere in Houston, Texas one small, seemingly unimportant trio of such outcasts first assembled, sharing only a common interest in Saturday Night Live, Adam Sandler movies, and three chord songs. They gathered together for one reason: they had the combined social life of a dead squirrel (which later became their mascot). At first, they set out to become an Air Supply cover band, but, tragically, when their version of "All out of Love" failed to capture the magic of the original, they decided they might as well write their own music. So they slaved away in the garage for exactly 12 minutes, and carefully crafted songs so painfully silly that no one would ever make the mistake of taking them seriously. They branded themselves "O'Doyle Rules," after a particularly memorable quote from one of their favorite movies, "Billy Madison," and decided it was time to penetrate the Houston music scene. Unfortunately, they soon found their reception was not always the most favorable. In fact, a few listeners described their initial sound as "a mix between SUCK and CRAP." It soon became apparent that maybe the world was not ready for their "hard-core dork rock." So they returned to the garage from which they were spawned, to rework their classic songs... Three years, two albums, five speeding tickets, two tours and several hundred shows later the three"dorks" who were no strangers to humiliation in their youth, are now poised to take over the same world that once dismissed them as "Just another Milli Vanilli." No longer confined to only 3 chords, they have progressed to 4 and sometimes even 5 chords in their never ending search for perfection in the field of songs about monkeys, love, and falling in love with monkeys. Their newest album, entitled "A Bad Case of Loser Denial" encourages losers everywhere to castaway the shackles of mainstream society and go make strange animal noises and get cushy jobs at large corporations. Recording in an actual studio was a definite step up for the band, who's previous ten song effort "That's Going to Leave a Mark" was not actually recorded, but instead was spontaneously generatedin a freak accident involving 3 tin cans and a case of cotton swabs. Through 14 tracks of crunchy guitar, bouncy basslines, soothing harmonies, and drumming perfection, the boys lay claim to a portion of the music industry long ago abandoned after the Village People suddenly became "unhip." With their critically acclaimed album in tow (all their parents liked it), the world is literally theirs for the taking. And if they ever stop watching reruns of SNL long enough, they might actually become tomorrow's Bay City Rollers.

Group Members Scott Doyle--Lead Vocals/Guitar; Matt Hone--Bass/Backing Vocals; Marq Schramm--Guitar; Denny Rasberry--Drums

Instruments Guitars/Bass/Drums

Location Houston, Tx - USA

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