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Dillinger Four
last updated 2026-09-11 11:26
Dillinger Four
Plays on LTZ: (historical total not available beyond this vault's episode folders)
Tracks played
Don't Happy Be Worry — played 2026-04-09
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Dillinger Four — Don't Happy Be Worry
Played: 2026-04-09 (Set 6 — Pop into punk run)
Minneapolis punk band formed 1994, one of the most respected bands in American melodic hardcore punk — never crossed over, never compromised, never stopped. Known for politically engaged lyrics delivered with full conviction over loud, fast guitars. Carries the energy of the Lambrini Girls track forward before the wind-down into the closer.
Dillinger Four
Origin: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA · formed 1994 · active (sporadically)
Members: Patrick "Paddy" Costello (bass, vocals), Erik Funk (guitar, vocals), Bill Morrisette (guitar, vocals; joined 1996, replacing original guitarist Sloan Lorsung), Lane Pederson (drums)
Genre: Melodic hardcore, punk rock
Discography:
Midwestern Songs of the Americas (1998) — Hopeless Records — debut LP, scene-defining
Versus God (2000) — Hopeless Records
Situationist Comedy (2002) — Fat Wreck Chords
Civil War (2008) — Fat Wreck Chords — most recent full-length
Facts:
Took their name partly as a play on the outlaw Dillinger Gang, but the band is a four-piece — hence "Four."
Known for dense, sardonic lyric sheets and song titles that are jokes unto themselves, paired with unusually intricate dual-vocal/dual-guitar interplay for a band this fast.