Joey Briggs

Joey Briggs LaRocca, guitarist and frontman for Los Angeles punk band The Briggs, embarks on an introspective journey, culminating from years of experience and feelings of disappointment, to the current state of affairs, both politically and musically. Something interesting happens when you take the punk band frontman out of his band and you give him an acoustic guitar and a mic. Joey Briggs‘ solo debut, "Politics, Touring, And Self-Loathing" EP, is a personal album that is fueled by tour stories, his ongoing obsession about the decline of the music industry, and politics. After all, what would punk rock be without politics? Sometimes, when a singer of a punk band does a solo record it loses it's potency and is generally a watered-down country version of his band. With Joey Briggs' first full-length effort "The Traveling Salesman, Pariah, Me", though the music is vastly different from the punk rock outfit The Briggs, the lyrical content packs a serious punch and releases enough venom of brutal honesty to take down a buffalo. Showing us he didn't need loud distorted guitars or throat-bleeding screams to get his point across. More than just a compilation of songs "The Traveling Salesman, Pariah, Me" is a story book of tales revealing Joey's nomadic life of touring such as on "Bottom Of A Beer" and "First Page Of My Book" letting us in on some of the more personal, behind the scenes of the touring world. And in "So Let Down" Joey let's us know exactly how he feels about the state of the music industry and subculture scenes. The record combines his long loved folk and indie influences. These influences have always been subtly present in The Briggs' music but given an open canvas Joey takes us deep into his seemingly boundless musical imagination. It's clear that Joey Briggs is a project that stands on it's own and is not just another "side project" of a dude in a band. With help from his brother and long-time partner in crime, Jason LaRocca, behind the controls and a couple of close friends from Old Man Markley, Joeylets us know exactly what's on his mind and gives us something very much lacking in music today, honesty. If you’re a fan of the The Briggs, then you will find that this is Joey Briggs at his best and it’s an album that’s definitely a “must have.”

Demo EP (2010)

01 - Here's to You

02 - The Sun Will Shine

03 - Walk Away

04 - Let The Night Sleep

Politics, Touring And Self-Loathing EP (2010)

01 - So Let Down

02 - 37 Cents

03 - Classify

04 - Bottom Of A Beer

The Dying Scene Sessions (2010)

01 - So Let Down

02 - Classify

03 - Suburban Kid

04 - All For Me Grog

05 - Mad Man (Live Bonus)

The Traveling Salesman, Pariah, Me (2011)

01 - Suburban Kid

02 - Let The Night Sleep Without Me

03 - Black Cloud

04 - Bottom Of A Beer

05 - So Let Down

06 - The Sun Will Shine

07 - All For Me Grog

08 - 37 Cents

09 - First Page Of My Book

10 - Here's To You

11 - Talking With The Wind

12 - Classify

13 - Walk Away

Joey Briggs EP (2013)

01 - Cellar Door

02 - Happy Being Miserable

03 - Lose Our Voices

Songs (Unofficial) (2019)

01 - Me On A Page

02 - Better Off Dead

03 - Colored Scarves And Futbol Chants

04 - Vegans And Anarchists

05 - Smoke Break (Acoustic Mix)

06 - Weirdest Dream (A Poem From 2012)

07 - Black And White Cars Dub

08 - Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye

09 - Left For Dead

10 - 5 Green Queens And Jean

11 - Shotgun Lungs

12 - Nowhere And Somewhere

13 - Pick Up The Phone

14 - Hell? Yes

15 - Circle Vista Blues

16 - I'm Numb

17 - The Blame

18 - Concrete River

19 - Kathy's Song

Disconnected (2022)

01 - Knock Knock

02 - Gaslight Me

03 - Dead Inside

04 - Fair-Weather Friends

05 - Quarantine Way

06 - Stay In Your Lane

07 - Hell? Yes

08 - Vegans And Anarchists

09 - Left For Dead

10 - Better Off Dead

11 - The Blame

Let's Pretend Like I Know What I'm Talking About (2025)

01 - A Tiger's Stripes

02 - Old Maid Pelosis

03 - Never Where I Should Be

04 - Martiniss

05 - Celebrity Endorsementss

06 - Shotgun Lungss

07 - Manageable Populouss

08 - I'm Numbs

09 - Circle Vista Blues

offline (2026)

01 - Before The World Fell Apart

02 - Trust Fund Confidence

03 - Sorry For Nothing

04 - Nowhere And Somewhere

05 - Twisted World

06 - Concrete River

07 - Pick Up The Phone

08 - Colored Scarves And Futbol Chants

09 - Smoke Break

10 - Better Off Dead (Acoustic Version)

pass: freepunk77