Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol Doom Wop vinyl is the Austin trio’s second album, and by the time this record arrived they had already developed a reputation that extended well beyond the Texas underground. Revolver Magazine called it epic, and that is not an overstatement for what happens when punk energy and metal weight get combined this deliberately.
Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol Doom Wop vinyl: Austin Punk-Metal on Permanent Teeth Society
Doom Wop is where Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol made the case for themselves as more than a local phenomenon. The punk-metal combination they work with here is not a compromise between the two genres. It is a genuine synthesis. The songs hit with the directness of punk but carry the structural weight of metal, and the Austin context gives it a slightly different flavor than what comes out of more established coastal scenes. Permanent Teeth Society is the label home, which gives you a sense of where this record sits in the independent market.
What the Second Album Does Differently
Second albums are where bands either consolidate what worked on the first record or overcorrect and lose what made them interesting. Doom Wop does neither. It takes the energy of the debut and applies more craft without sanding down the rough edges that made the band worth paying attention to in the first place. The production is bigger without being overproduced. The songs take more chances structurally without becoming difficult to follow.
Who Needs This Record
Collectors who follow the crossover between punk and metal, particularly in the American underground outside of the major coastal markets, will find Doom Wop fills a specific slot. It represents what happens when a band with genuine enthusiasm for both traditions works out how to make them coexist without simply alternating between the two. The vinyl pressing is the right format for music this physical, and Permanent Teeth Society put together a release that respects what the band built here. Austin is not typically associated with the punk-metal crossover in the way that cities like Los Angeles or Chicago are, which is part of what makes Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol interesting as a cultural object. They come from a city with a strong independent music tradition but not a heavy music lineage, and that context shapes how they approach what they do. Doom Wop is the album that makes the strongest case for their place in the broader conversation, and the vinyl pressing from Permanent Teeth Society is how you own it physically.
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