Louisville band White Reaper have announced a new album, Asking For A Ride, out January 27 via Elektra (pre-order). With the album announcement comes lead single “Pages,” an acid-washed, guitar-driven ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White Reaper. (Credit: Jimmy Fontaine) It takes guts to call yourself the world’s best American band. To be fair, White Reaper ...

What makes a band an “American band”? It seems like the poets at Grand Funk Railroad cracked the code back in 1973, when they sang, “We’re an American band / We’re comin’ to your town / We’ll help you ...

Here is what I know, for certain, about Asking For A Ride, the new album from the Louisville, Kentucky garage rock quintet White Reaper: it’s really good. It could be White Reaper’s best album. It’s ...

Soda Bar, you're on notice: The world's best American band doesn’t care for apathetic crowds. “All-ages shows are fun and 21-and-up shows are awful,” White Reaper’s guitarist/vocalist Tony Esposito ...

White Reaper are prepping the release of their fourth album by sharing a new ‘80s rock ’n‘ roll revivalist cut, “Real Long Time.” With whammied electric guitars, arena-ready vocals and an organ-led ...

A recent White Reaper publicity photo with Hunter Thompson at the top right. On a small stage at ACL Fest 2017, White Reaper brought something none of the 100-or-so other festival acts possessed: punk ...

Bonnaroo’s 16th year has come and gone. Check below to see which sets stuck with us from day 4 of Bonnaroo. Louisville rockers White Reaper slayed the What Stage Sunday morning with their snarky, ...

The opening chords of “The World’s Best American Band” descend and you’re in for it—gimmick or no gimmick. It’s a dramatically classic sound that grabs you hook, line and sinker until you’re ...

White Reaper is growing up — musically, at least. Frontman and guitarist Tony Esposito says the freewheeling lifestyle of a touring band has kept the group spiritually young. Its sound, however, grew ...

When it’s nearing 2020 and one of your albums is titled “The World’s Best American Band,” chances are people are going to ask you how you feel about the state of the once-thriving genre. “People are ...

Louisville, Kentucky’s White Reaper have perhaps taken a page from the President’s boastful playbook and named their new album The World’s Best American Band. It’s due out April 7 via Polyvinyl and of ...