The Briggs

Joey LaRocca- Vocals & Rhythm Guitar

Jason LaRocca- Vocals & Lead Guitar

Chris Arredondo - Drummer

Ryan Roberts- Bass

The perennial road warriors of punk rock, The Briggs, have spent the last six years on the road with little respite. This doesn’t really bother them though. Considering the momentum the band has gained in the last few years, they welcome it. And though, the ride hasn’t been the easiest, The Briggs are ready to break out with their most honest and compelling album to date, Come All You Madmen.

Formed by brothers Jason (Guitar, Vocals) and Joey LaRocca (Guitar, Vocals), The Briggs made their debut in 2001 with Is This What You Believe and have been on a roll ever since. Joined by Chris Arredondo (Drums) and Ryan Roberts (Bass), the band quickly caught fire in 2004 when they signed with LA’s notorious punk label SideOneDummy Records. Later that year the band released the critically acclaimed EP, Leaving The Ways, which Alternative Press called “snotty, fist-pumping street punk with a message,” and 2006’s tour de force Back To Higher Ground.

After spending the last several years burning up the road with bands like Bad Religion, Flogging Molly, Anti-Flag, Tiger Army and The Living End, The Briggs recently settled in to record a new album. While on tour with Dropkick Murphys in 2007, Jason and Joey found time to write most of the group’s next effort, Come All You Madmen, on acoustic guitar.

“We would get home from a tour and go into our rehearsal space and started playing our ideas with the band ‘plugged in’ and it would be pretty immediately clear what songs worked and which ones definitely did not,” says Jason. Over the course of the next few months the band narrowed down the songs and brought in The Mighty Mighty Bosstones bassist Joe Gittleman to produce.