In March 2011, Ben Weasel was involved in an altercation with two female audience members at a Screeching Weasel show at the Austin, Texas SXSW Festival. This resulted in the other members of both Screeching Weasel and the Riverdales quitting the band. In the aftermath of this, former members Dan…
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In December 2010, the band announced they had signed to Fat Wreck Chords , and the label would be re-releasing some of their old material.
On December 13, 2009, Weasel announced on Twitter that the fifth Riverdales album would be called Tarantula , they began recording the next day. Weasel has stated that if he had had his way, Invasion U.S.A. would have been a double LP and that Tarantula should be considered part two…
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In September 2009, it was announced that Simon Lamb would be joining the band as a second guitarist. Prior to that for live purposes, Dan Schafer was playing second guitar and singing while Justin Perkins , who had recorded Invasion U.S.A. , played bass guitar. A couple months later in…
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On November 19, 2008, on his ESPN radio show, Weasel Radio , Ben Weasel announced that he and Dan Vapid had been demoing songs for a new Riverdales album and that recording would begin in February 2009. He also announced that the Riverdales would be playing live one-off shows again…
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In 2004, Foster rescinded all of the Riverdales masters from Lookout! Records. All of these masters had then been licensed to Asian Man Records . Asian Man re-released the band’s debut album in 2006 with re-mastered sound and some bonus tracks including the two previously unreleased songs, “Two-Headed Girl” and…
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Named after the small town of Riverdale from the Archie Comics , the Riverdales formed in 1994. The founding members, Ben Foster (guitar), Dan Schafer (bass), and Dan Sullivan (drums) were all former members of Screeching Weasel which had broken up earlier that year. Unlike Screeching Weasel, the members of…
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