Dash Rip Rock

Dash Rip Rock is the legendary New Orleans trio known for their high-octane roots rock. SPIN says Dash Rip Rock is “undeniably the South’s greatest rock band.” The New York Times calls Dash Rip Rock “skillful musicians with a penchant for getting reliably wild….” No Depression raves that DRR’s recent albums prove that Dash is “one of the greatest bands working today.” In 2012 Dash Rip Rock was honored to be inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

Dash Rip Rock has long been celebrated for tight musicianship, high energy live shows, and songs of raw insolence and longing that are sometimes cut with whimsy. Bill Davis, Dash Rip Rock’s founder and frontman, is a songwriter known for his blistering guitar work. For over 25 years the band has amassed a loyal, diverse following. Influential in shaping genres of rock and alternative country acts, Dash Rip Rock has fans that span the globe. The wide tent of their cross-genre fan base includes aficionados of rock, roots-rock and Americana as well as rockabilly, country, and punk fans.

DRR has released 15 records that have been hailed as underground classics.

Dash Rip Rock has shared the stage with The Ramones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lou Reed, The Replacements, No Doubt, the Circle Jerks, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Black Crowes, Joe Ely and countless others, at times playing up to 250 shows a year and touring with acts like the Cramps and The Reverend Horton Heat. In 2010 Dash Rip Rock’s song “Johnny Ace” was featured in the hit video game Rock Band. Bill Davis also appears in the 2011 documentary Outside Industry: The Story of SXSW.

In late November 2012 Dash Rip Rock's new album “Black Liquor” will be released. It was recorded at Louisiana's infamous Studio in the Country and is coming out on Jello Biafra's San Francisco-based Alternative Tentacles label. “This is the longest we've ever spent writing and recording a record. This time out we also worked with respected Louisiana producer and engineer Ben Mumphrey (Frank Black / Breeders / Andre Williams). It's a thoughtful document of us a band - a well-rounded and heavy collection of every facet of our music, curated by a New Orleans guy who's a longtime fan and happens to be a great producer and engineer. I also pulled a few never-recorded gems out of the Dash demo vault for this one,” says Bill Davis.

CREATIVE LOAFING
“Their roots sound’s supercharged with energy and an overdose of irreverence, delivered with crunchy bar band swagger.”

WASHINGTON POST
“What lifts Dash Rip Rock's album a head above most Southern rock is Davis's ability to write songs that do more than sell beer on Saturday night.”

AUSTIN CHRONICLE
“...no one can replace Bill Davis. He’s the brains behind Dash’s brawn, a barroom poet with a wicked sense of humor and a shameless knack for a good lick.”