For Spike Slawson, frontman and lead singer of the San Francisco-born punk rock group Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, a live show is akin to an obstacle course. Slawson and the group don’t much care ...

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes have announced an Australian tour for November 2024 – coming roughly 18 months after their previous visit in February 2023. For their upcoming Band of the Long Weekend tour ...

“It was really tense for me going out to no applause—and to people actually walking away when we were playing,” says vocalist Spike Slawson. It all went down on July 15th, 2023, at The Soap Factory in ...

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes have announced a new album, Blow it…at Madison’s Quinceañera!, which will be out June 14 via Fat Wreck Chords. As the title suggests, and with the same conceit as 2004’s ...

The long-running punk cover band Me First & The Gimme Gimmes are releasing a new album, ¡Blow It … At Madison’s Quinceañera!, in June. As a press release lays out, the album was recorded at a ...

A punk rock supergroup and cover band is entering a new era. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes has changed its name to Spike and the Gimme Gimmes for its 2025 tour, the band announced on Instagram April ...

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are headed out to Europe this summer. On this run, the band includes Spike Slawson, CJ Ramone, Pinch (formerly of The Damned), John Reis of Rocket from the Crypt, and ...