Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol announce BIG DUMB FEST 2025 and US tour with THE SWORDEU & UK tour starts May 15th!

Austin trio Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol announce their 3rd annual hometown BIG DUMB FEST today, as well as US tour dates supporting the reunited The Sword. The festival is curated by the band, who hand picked the entire 7 band lineup (with RBBP headlining the event) and collection of food vendors. BIG DUMB FEST 3 takes place Saturday, June 14th at Mohawk Austin. (Assets)

The Sword dates start in August, and cover the Western US. RBBP returns to the East Coast in June supporting Pigs x 7. The band also launches their first EU & UK tour in May. Please see all dates below. Tickets for all shows are available now HERE.

BIG DUMB FEST 2025 - Austin, TX - Saturday, June 14th - Mohawk Austin - 6pm

Bands: Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol Gus Baldwin & The Sketch The Grasshopper Lies Heavy Glime Gran Moreno Subpar Snatch Bat Lips *

Food: Bad Larry's Burger Club - Grandpa's Glizzys - Sucio Boy Burgers

The band also recently shared the official video for "Clowntown" via Metal Sucks. The track is the opening tune to their breakout album Big Dumb Riffs. Watch and share "Clowntown" HERE or via YouTube HERE.

BIG DUMB RIFFS is available on digital, LP and cassette, released May 10th, 2024. Order/stream the album on all formats HERE.

“Our catalog has never been short on big dumb riffs, but the idea on this record was to really turn the screw,” says RBBP bassist Aaron Metzdorf. On Big Dumb Riffs, that screw is cranked incredibly tight. 

“We just wanted ‘the part’: The opening of Pantera’s ‘Primal Concrete Sledge’, the breakdown in Primus' ‘Pudding Time’ — the shit that makes you move and lose your mind. Just that part the whole time.”

Across 11 concise, taut songs — most clocking in around 2 minutes or less — Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol demonstrates their skillful ability to blend the merciless low end of Leo Lydon’s 8-string guitar, Aaron Metzdorf’s masterful chordwork on the bass, and Sean St.Germain’s driving drumming. 

Hot on the heels of their breakout 5th studio release Doom Wop (2023), Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol returns with Big Dumb Riffs: A whole new variant of the fuzzed out, overdriven, melodic, groovy music they have been making since 2016. While Big Dumb Riffs is decidedly more aggressive and rhythmic, it still retains the overtly melodic feel of Doom Wop. But Leo Lydon’s vocals are considerably more angry and negative. 

“The whole writing process was, ‘what if we just played two notes the whole song’,” Metzdorf says. “‘What if we tuned down to almost unusable string tension?’, ‘what if we write a record that will make everyone say 'wow that is dumb’? Leo and I really move around on stage a lot. Being a dingus is crucial to the groove. All these riffs were designed to allow us to act bigger and dumber on stage.”

Big Dumb Riffs is available on vinyl LP, cassette, download and streaming, released on May 10, 2024. Orders are available HERE.