Screeching Weasel

USA, 1986–now

Chicago pop-punk band formed in 1986 by Ben Weasel and John Jughead. Their Ramones-worship melodicism, peaking on My Brain Hurts (1991), made them a Lookout! Records touchstone cited by blink-182, Alkaline Trio and a generation of pop-punk bands.

Influenced by

• Ramones

Influenced

• blink-182