The Whiskey Avengers crawled from the dive bars, gutters, and back allies of Northern California sometime early 2006. Their unique booze-drenched street style ska-reggae-folk-punk quickly captured audiences young and old around the San Francisco Bay Area. Their self-produced debut release ‘Round One’ hit the scene October of ’06 bringing together a mix of traditional Jamaican Ska, with controversial lyrics, undermining the violent and diseased music scene in their hometown of San Jose, California. Their powerhouse live performance and angry anthems quickly earned them a household name winning the hearts of, swashbucklers, strumpets, and everyday working-class drunks up and down the west coast, attracting newspaper coverage, local music awards and even a role the short independent film “Whiskey Tears.” Their reputation eventually brought them overseas in the fall of ’07 on a European tour that stretched across a dozen countries as far east as Bulgaria where they were instantly met with adoration, enthusiasm, and appearances on several European compilations. They have since shared the stage with such greats as Bob Marley’s Original Wailers, the English Beat, the Aggrolites, Chirs Murray, Dave Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7, Let’s Go Bowling and many more. ‘Round 1’ was eventually released in Japan including the overseas hit ‘Tokyo Christmas’ with a music video comedy that plagued Japanese television for months. They have also lent their creative song writing talent to local sports teams by writing fight songs for the San Jose Sharks and the Silicon Valley Roller Derby Girls team. The long awaited second album ‘Round 2: Wet and Wreckless’ is set to be unleashed November of ’09 under their own Roof Rock Records. The record finally captures the intensity and musicianship of the Whiskey Avengers with some additions to the cast of characters, such as heavyweight trumpet player Kincaid Smith from the legendary Ska band ‘Hepcat.’ The Whiskey Avengers plan to explode back on the scene without mercy until they have every drunk on the planet singing:
‘Whiskey, Whiskey Bottles of whiskey You’re soul won’t be saved but it might get you laid Whiskey, Whiskey, Songs about whiskey No fortune and fame and you’ll never get paid”
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Wet and Reckless sounds BADASS in every way!!!!!!! No tag on the end of 'The Problem'? Cmon Axl could use the money! hahaha Next step: bring back American Hobo in Ginza and Married Girl! And THANKS for making that King City Cop song!!!! Those assholes made me go to court IN Monterey County at the crack of dawn! Congrats on the kickass show last night!!!!!
Calling all Whiskey Avengers and friends. Warsaw is finishing our month long tour in Campbell @ the Sonoma Chicken Coup With FTB on Thursday November 12th. Bring your banjos and sailor horns. It's gonna be an allstar pirate jam.
Oct 8 - Buffalo - Mohawk Place
Oct 9/10 - Toronto
- Lee's Palace - 2 nights!
Oct 11 - Montreal - Club Soda
Oct 15 - Berlin - SO36
Oct 16 - Jena - Kassa Blanca
Oct 17 - Stuttgart - Universum
Oct 18 – Schaffhausen, CH - Kammgardn
Oct 19 - Barcelona - Razzmatazz
Oct 20 - Valencia - Black Note
Oct 21 - Madrid - Caracol
Oct 22 - Rome - Forte Prenestino
Oct 23 - Athens - AN Club
Oct 24 - Istanbul - Jolly Roger Balans
Oct 25 - Milano - Magnolia Club
Oct 26 - Ljubjana - Bala Hala
Oct 27 - Zagreb - Kset
Oct 28 - Graz - PPC
Oct 29 - Vienna - Arena
Oct 30 - tba
Oct 31 - Regensburg - Alte Malzerei
Dec 3 - San Antonio - White Rabbit
Dec 4/5 - Austin - Flamingo Cantina
Dec 6 - Houston - Meridian
Dec 8 - New Orleans - One Eyed Jacks
Dec 9 - Tallahasee - Engine Room
Dec 10 - Tampa - Crowbar
Dec 11 - Miami - Churchills
Dec 12 - Orlando - The Social
i love your sound. even managed to lure me into a knucklehead bar such as tres gringos... which i normally wouldn't be caught dead in :) you should come back to the 'van though. xoxo
el dulce lobo hey wassup im gonna play at the ZEN lounge in mountain view next week thursday aug 6th el dulce lobo featuring members from: FIRME, Whiskey Avengers, & Monkey!! show starts at 7pm and the set starts lil' after 8pm!!!!!
hey kevin..GREAT show the other night.(caravan).I looked in santa cruz (street light) and san jose rasputins for a cd of the whiskey avengers no luck.:-( by the way..this is Dennis father..my son was in your jazz camp..here is his solo from the last day of camp.
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