Teenage Bottlerocket, Jen Pop

When you want straightforward, no nonsense punk rock, obviously there’s only one place to look — Wyoming. OK, that may not be everyone’s first instinct, but since emerging from Laramie in the early 2000s Teenage Bottlerocket has been one of the best old school punk bands the genre has to offer. With an unrelenting downstroke power chord attack and melodicism that should appeal to anyone who wears a Ramones T-shirt, the band continues to put out catchy songs of disaffection like those found on its 2023 EP, So Dumb / So Stoked. Time to open up a Cowboy State circle pit, y’all.

Teenage Bottlerocket, Jen Pop, Scatterbox • Wed, July 24 at 7:30 pm • $22 • All ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington St. • thebigdipperspokane.com