Ben Weasel (born Ben Foster in Chicago, Illinois) was the lead singer of punk rock bands Screeching Weasel and The Riverdales. Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Screeching Weasel was an American Punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois. ... The Riverdales are an American punk rock music group. ...

Weasel is also a writer. In the early 1990s, Weasel published the fanzine Panic Button, which focused on punk rock and hockey. He published two one off zines through Oyster Publications, Brady Bunch Behemoth (1991) and Stab! Stab! Stab! (1992). Weasel also wrote for other various zines, including Razorcake, Non-Stop Banter, Jersey Beat, Hit List, 10 Things Jesus Wants You To Know. He also had a long-running column in MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL, one of the most prominent punk rock fanzines. Weasel wrote a novel in 2001 called Template:Like Hell and put out a collection of his columns and articles in 2002 entitled Punk is a Four Letter Word. Both books were published by Hope and Nonthings, a small publishing house based in Chicago run by former bandmate John Jughead. FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE Razorcake is the magazine arm of a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, CA (with its sister underground book publisher Gorsky Press as Razorcake/Gorsky Press, Inc. ... Maximum Rocknroll Issue #1 Maximum Rocknroll (also known as MRR) is a a widely distributed, monthly underground punk rock and punk culture fanzine based in San Francisco, USA. Featuring interviews, columns and reviews from international contributors, Maximum RocknRoll could be thought of as one of the most important presences in... John Pierson, commonly known by the nom-de-rock John Jughead or simply Jughead, founded the legendary pop-punk band Screeching Weasel in Chicago, Illinois with friend Ben Weasel in 1986. ...

Weasel also ran his own Chicago-based record label called Panic Button, which he also started in 1997 with Jughead and sold to Lookout Records in 2001. In recent years he has released one solo album and is currently working on a follow up to it. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Lookout! Records is a record company based in Berkeley, California. ...

Discography

• Screeching Weasel - Screeching Weasel (1987)
• Screeching Weasel - BOOGADABOOGADABOOGADA (1988)
• Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts (1991)
• Screeching Weasel - Ramones (1992)
• Screeching Weasel - Wiggle (1993)
• Screeching Weasel - Anthem For A New Tomorrow (1993)
• Screeching Weasel - How To Make Enemies And Irritate People (1994)
• Riverdales - Riverdales (1995)
• Screeching Weasel - Kill The Musicians (1995)
• Screeching Weasel - Bark Like A Dog (1996)
• Riverdales - Storm The Streets (1997)
• Screeching Weasel - Major Label Debut (1997)
• Screeching Weasel - Television City Dream (1998)
• Screeching Weasel - Emo (1999)
• Screeching Weasel - Teen Punks In Heat (2000)
• Ben Weasel - Fidatevi (2002)
• Riverdales - Phase Three (2003)
• Vindictives - Original Masters 1990-1992 (2003)
• Screeching Weasel - Weasel Mania (2005)

External links

• Lookout Records
• Asian Man Records
• Fat Wreck Chords
• Screeching Weasel at Amazon.com
• Ben Weasel's Weblog