TITLE: Dan Vapid And The Cheats 1. Torture Chamber 9. What Do You Wanna Do Tonight? 2. Baby Baby Get Over Yourself 10. In A Heartbeat 3. Devo On Speed 11. Girl Group 4. Feeling Manic 12. I Just Wanna Be Happy 5. Die Trying 13. Ooh-la-la 6. Just Like Cleopatra 14. Work Of Art 7. Beware Of The Fog 15. It Lives By Night 8. Good Enough

DEBUT RECORD FROM DAN VAPID FORMERLY OF SCREECHING WEASEL, RIVERDALES, THE METHADONES AND MORE! Wasting little time after the notorious SXSW incident, Dan Vapid re-teamed with former Methadones drummer and guitarist Mike Soucy and Mike Byrne, respectively, as well as ex- Screeching Weasel/Riverdales bassist Simon Lamb to form Dan Vapid and The Cheats. The 15 pop-punk tracks on the self-titled album turn out to be a pleasant amalgamation of all the aforemen- tioned bands. Tracks like "Just Like Cleopatra," "Beware of the Fog" and "It Lives By Night" would be right at home on a Riverdales record, while "Feeling Manic," "Die Trying," "What Do You Wanna Do Tonight?" and "In a Heartbeat" sound like they could have been cuts from a Methadones album. The delightfully gonzo "Devo on Speed" is a great, synth-infused tribute to new wave, but one of the band's best songs is also one of the most surprising: "Girl Group," a wonderful doo-wop throwback that sounds as if it could have been a jukebox hit from the mid-1950s. Vapid's affinity for writing solid, catchy tunes is FOR FANS OF: at the forefront of this record. Even though there are a lot of Screeching Weasel, Riverdales comparisons to previous bands, there is a unique sound Masked Intruder, Teenage Bottlerocket, Ramones, Pop-punk, Power-pop here that has a little something that those other bands didn't have. (punknews.org - May 4th 2012) NEW RECORD DUE IN JULY 2013!

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