Rock 'n' Roll Soldiers

Proudly representing for the roughneck end of garage rock, the Rock N Roll Soldiers make an aggressively nasty noise that owes much more to the Pretty Things and early Rolling Stones than it does the White Stripes. Impressively, the band also managed to bounce back from a bad major-label experience that would have destroyed most bands. Formed in Eugene, OR, in 1997 while its members were still in high school, the nascent group took its name from an old tour slogan by rough-edged 1970s Australian punk pioneers Radio Birdman, their favorite band at the time. Continuing their fas...