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Brad Marino recently announced his first Ramonescore album called "Basement Beat," out October 14th via Rum Bar Records for CD (pre-order), Hey Pizza Records for LP (pre-order), and Memorable But Not Honorable for cassette (pre-order). Today, we are premiering his latest single and the album’s opening track, ‘Freak Show’. 141 seconds of pure Ramonescore bliss!

“Freak show dates back to 2010,” says Marino about the song. “My buddy Denny Rydell’s wife Jesse Holland wrote the lyrics in 09 for my old band The Rydells. Real campy horror flick lyrics. I did the music and it’s a real rocker to kick off the album!“

With the downtime of the past 2 years Marino has been writing a lot. As sort of a little songwriting challenge every once in a while he'd write some Ramonescore tunes. In that sense, ‘Basement Beat’ is almost a concept album. Most of the songs on the album were written in 2020/2021 but a couple date back to Marino’s first songwriting attempts circa 2004!

Marino was originally going to release this under an alias but decided to just make it a Brad Marino album on the advice of some people whose opinion he trusts. It's different than "Looking for Trouble" and "Extra Credit" but it's all rock and roll to me. Brad Marino did vocals and all instruments on the LP, except for drums, which were handled by Beau-Beau Basement.