The Riverdales are an American punk rock music group. It was formed when the band Screeching Weasel broke up and members Ben Weasel (born Ben Foster), Danny Vapid (born Dan Shaefer) and Dan Panic (born Dan Sullivan) ended up without a band. They formed The Riverdales, with Ben on guitar, Vapid on bass, and Panic on drums. Their first album was released June 1996 on Lookout! Records and was produced by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Mass Giorgini (from Squirtgun and Screeching Weasel). The Riverdales have released various albums with an old-school punk sound. The influence of Screeching Weasel sets the band apart from other Ramones soundalikes. Both Vapid and Weasel do the vocals. Panic left the group and was replaced by Dan Lumley, Screeching Weasel's other drummer. 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 a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... Fender Precision Bass Bass Guitar is a popular term that refers to electric and acoustic basses - stringed instruments similar in design to the guitar, but with longer scale and tuned lower in pitch. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Lookout! Records is a record company based in Berkeley, California. ... Green Day is a pop punk band consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong (lead vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass, backing vocals, born Michael Ryan Pritchard), and Tré Cool (drummer, born Frank Edwin Wright III). ... Billie Joe Armstrong in a now recent concert Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972 in Oakland, California) is the songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist for punk rock band Green Day. ... Mass Giorgini has played bass in some notable pop punk bands. ... Squirtgun was formed by producer Mass Giorgini in 1994, and was made up of former members of his recently disbanded Rattail Grenadier. ... The Ramones (L-R, Johnny, Tommy, Joey, Dee Dee) on the cover of their debut self-titled album (1976), cementing their place at the dawn of the punk movement. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who uses his or her voice as an instrument to make music. ...

The band likely takes its name from the fictional town of Riverdale, the setting of Archie Comics and home of fictional band The Archies. Riverdale a fictional town that is the setting for most of the various characters that appear in Archie Comics. ... Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Forsythe Jughead Jones. ... The Archies are a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie universe, a garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones. ...