The Briggs are a punk rock band based out of Los Angeles, California. Full Bio

THE BRIGGS Jason
LaRocca – Guitar/Vocals Joey
LaRocca – Guitar/Vocals Chris
Arredondo – Drums 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.   Spending
massive amounts of time on the road gave the band ample time to absorb a range
of influences from the band’s they toured with, the music they were listening
to as well as their surroundings.  
“We were heavily influenced about the idea of writing a record with live
feel and really there was no limit to what we allowed to influence us,”
explains Jason.   “We let our
personal feelings and experiences inspire us. Because there is nothing more
boring than a band trying to appeal to an audience and not writing how they
really feel because it might not be the most popular opinion. It's
transparent.”   While influences do spark change, The Briggs
have stayed true to their signature sound, but by no means are they
predictable.   “It's more aggressive,
more melodic and folky at the same time than anything else we have done up to
this point,” states Jason.   “We
figured there was no point in fucking around in making a boring, safe record so
we turned it up a notch, pushed our own limits out of the comfort zone. We went
more extreme in both directions at the same time.”   Featuring
guest appearances from punk rock legends Brian Baker (Bad Religion, Minor
Threat), Ken Casey (Dropkick Murphys) and Dicky Barrett (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones),
Come All You Madmen erupts with explosive anthemic working class street punk.   From the soaring guitars on the fist
pumping tune “Charge Into The Sun” and the marching beats of the Irish inspired
sing-along “Mad Men” to the raw melodic sincerity of “Not Alone” and the acoustic
folk offering of “Oblivion,” The Briggs continue to prove themselves as one of
punk’s most respectable and memorable acts. Never
strangers to the road, The Briggs will give fans a taste of the new album this
summer when they tour the US on the Van’s Warped Tour.    Hide Bio