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Goes Good With: Less Than Jake, Catch 22, The Expendables, PassafireDoors at 7:00pm, showtime at 8:00pm
Through 25 years and eight independent albums, the last four on their own RightCoast Records, Ballyhoo! have earned the exclamation point that marks their name. Starting in the basement of their mom’s Aberdeen, MD, home, rocking out on guitar and drums respectively, practicing every day, brothers Howi and Donald Spangler formed the proto-punk band in the mold of Green Day and nirvana, with an eye towards the emerging ska genre led by Goldfinger, Sublime,311 and No Doubt.
The group’s eighth and most recent studio album, the breezy, ska-fueled, hook-filled Message to the World, on their own Right Coast Records, finds the self-declared “beach-rockers,” having grown up in public, accepting the responsibilities of adulthood while still hanging on to their dreams of world domination.
Stylistically, their music ranges from the hard-edged punk of 2018’sDetonate, which captured the feelings of anger and depression from dealing with personal loss and the exhaustion generated by over a decade on the road the island reggae beats of the follow-up, Message to the World.“Whatever you want to achieve, just focus on that and work towards it,” explains how about the Ballyhoo! ethos. “Don’t worry about followers, views, or even money. Just keep making good stuff. It may be possible to quit that day job and finally live your dream full-time.” Ballyhoo! is still doing just that, purveying good vibes, positivity, and fun live shows meant to take you away from real life...
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Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75206-5630, United States,Dallas, Texas
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