Funk founded and co-owned the influential Minneapolis music venue Triple Rock Social Club , which opened in 1998 and closed in 2017. Dillinger Four played the venue’s final concert in November 2017.
The band was signed to California hardcore label Hopeless Records on the strength of what Hopeless founder Louis Posen called its “international following.” The label released Dillinger Four’s first two full-length records, 1998’s Midwestern Songs of the Americas and 2000’s Versus God . The band moved to Fat Wreck Chords…
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The original lineup, which also included guitarist Sloan Lorsung and drummer Lane Pedersen, released the 1995 debut 7″ single Higher Aspirations: Tempered and Dismantled . Lorsung was replaced by Bill Morrisette before the 1996 follow-up EP The Kids Are All Dead . A series of subsequent singles and compilation appearances…
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Dillinger Four was formed in 1994 by guitarist Erik Funk and bassist Patrick Costello. The two had previously played together in the Chicago -based hardcore band Angerhouse.