Beto O’Rourke’s Punkness, According to Texas Punks
Image: AP HOUSTON, TEXAS — “This isn’t punk at all,” Goretooth said from behind the bar at White Swan Live, as he listened to Beto O’Rourke’s old punk band’s song “Rise,” off their EP The El Paso Pussycats. “It’s the Cranberries with punk vocals, sanitized with a napkin.” Then I played him another song by Foss, O’Rourke’s short-lived punk band from the early 1990s, called “Al Sobrante, Snowzone In His Pants, Got The Chutzpah Rolling.” “This song here is punk,” he proclaimed, giving it a solid two thumbs up. It was the Saturday before election day, and I was drinking a Tecate at the dive bar...
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