Teenage Bottlerocket

Teenage Bottlerocket is from Laramie, Wyoming and has been around since 2001. They released one EP (A-Bomb (2002)) and one full length (Another Way - 2003) before their original guitarist left the band due to tour schedules conflicting with obligations he had to the university orchestra. That's right. He skipped tour to play in the university band.

Enter the Kody Templeton. Formerly of The Lillingtons (more on them in another post), another Wyoming punk rock band, Kody's vocals and song writing brought the band to a new level. Since Kody entered the band, they have released three full lengths. Total (2005), Warning Device (2008), and They Came From The Shadows (2009), a live album and several splits.

Fat Mike once described The Lillington's album "Death By Television" as the greatest pop-punk album of all time, but I think it's fair to say that both Warning Device and They Came From The Shadows have both surpassed it. If you like simple, fast, melodic punk rock, then you have to give Teenage Bottlerocket a listen. If The Ramones had just started releasing music a few years ago, this is what it would've sounded like.

Track Listing:

1. "Bottlerocket"
2. "In the Basement"
3. "Gave You My Hear"
4. "She's Not the One"
5. "Pacemaker"
6. "Social Life"
7. "Welcome to the Nuthouse"
8. "Anna's Song"
9. "On My Own"
10. "Totally Stupid"
11. "Crawling Back to You"
12. "Warning Device"
13. "Wasting Time"

  (Download Warning Device)

Track Listing:

1. "Skate or Die"
2. "Don’t Want to Go"
3. "Bigger than Kiss"
4. "Do What?"
5. "Not OK"
6. "Forbidden Planet"
7. "Call in Sick"
8. "Fatso Goes Nutzoid"
9. "Without You"
10. "Tonguebiter"
11. "Be with You"
12. "The Jerk"
13. "They Came from the Shadows"
14. "Todayo"

(Download They Came From The Shadows)