The Pittsburgh-based Radio Beats are wiry, twitchy purveyors of blown-out garage-thrash savagery, kinda like Henry Fiat’s Open Sore, or perhaps the Red Hot Lovers, or perhaps just like a bunch of escaped mental patients with guitars. There’s 4 songs here that go by in a raucous blur, although closer “Kill Your Man” stuck in my brain for several minutes afterwards, cuz I was pretty sure shrapnel of some kind was gonna start flying through the air. Now, I know how you can play rock n’ roll with such lupine fury (cocaine), but I do not know how you can make it sound so fuckin’ dirty. Radio Beats sound SO fuzzy-muddy-bleedy that you’d think they just discovered magnetic tape last week. So, what I mean to say is, if you like it RAW, then yr in luck. And if ya don’t, then the Radio Beats cordially invite you to go straight to hell. - Sleazegrinder.com

These cats really do love the Devil Dogs and the Dwarves, as it says on the promosheet.. A punkier and more frantic Devil Dogs is the closest description I can come up with. Short blasts of fast punkrock is what they call songs and it’s pretty good. I like this new breed of bands that have popped up everywhere but, as always, mostly in the States. They’re punky and seem to know what they wanna play. That’s always a good start. The Radio Beats are pretty cool but can’t quite catch the r’n’r-thing they’re chasing.. It’s solid enough to buy tho’ and I’m gonna spin this a lot more. - Savage

Wild, fast and outta control garagepunkrock from Pittsburgh, USA. This is the trio's second single and plans are to record a full-length album for Big Neck with nonelse than Steve Baise taking care of the recording! These 4 songs land somewhere in-between Mr. Baise's former band, The Spaceshits, and I also hear some Japanese-influences here ´cause it´s so wild but The Radio Beats are much faster than e.g. Guitar Wolf. Favorite songs right now are "Time To Die" and "Backseat Learnin´". Cool stuff and definitely ones to watch out for in the future! - Savage

What happens when high-school pop punk losers from the West Virginia Appalachian region (Wheeling, who's other contribution to the world of music is Brad Paisley, to be more exact) hear Teengenerate, the Devil Dogs and the Problematics for the first time? Well, in the Radio Beats case, it totally turned their heads around. Instead of boo-hoo-hoo'ing about how some girl broke up with them for someone who they thought was their best friend, finding words that rhyme with chocolate malt and practicing their Johnny Ramones pose in front of their bedroom mirror they turn everything up as loud as it will go start kicking everything over. To hell with that girl in science class who left 'em for the football player. The Radio Beats are gonna get even when they crash a jock party and set fire to haircut boy's parents' $3,000 designer leather couch! - Smashing Transistors

The Radio Beats hail from the back woods of West Virginia, and come off sounding like The Devil Dogs with The Dwarves speeding things up. This is their debut 7” after splitting a 7” with Ohio’s The Give-Ups, this holds up on their own with fast garage punk and plenty of hooks. It’s good to see music like this coming out of West Virginia, to tell you the truth I can’t think of many W. Virginia punk rock bands off the top of my head. I mean it’s not the hotbed of music like some other places. - Crime Wave

If you can sit still while your listening to this, I don't know. Named after the song by the Devil Dogs, these guys carry on their legacy with some real conviction. Rumor has it Steve Baise may take them into the studio for their next project, let's hope this happens. This is really the ONLY cool thing ever to come out of West Virginia. - x2rr.com

Bart Hart finally puts out a record by a band from Virgina (well, West Virginia) after being there for years. I imagine it would take quite a while to find a good punk band down there though. Anyway, the Radio Beats have that trademarked Mid-Atlantic rough and tumble sound, a la Antiseen or Candy Snatchers but minus the bloodshed, with a healthy dose of Devil Dogs worship mixed in. Great sounding recording, which was actually done in a garage, and the songs are entertaining and short enough to not get boring, as bands of this ilk tend to be. They're young looking kids too, obviously utilizing punk rock as a way to escape a lifetime of servitude in the coal-mines. I think they are now fulfilling their mandatory Steve Baise affiliation and recording a full length with him as we speak. I'm sure it will be black lung inducing. Yet another quality release from a label that seems to take pride in its bad cover art. - Terminal-Boredom.com

I try not to review much stuff that's been previously covered unless I have something to add, and while I don't have much to pile onto Filthy Snitch's assessment last issue, I gotta chime in & say that this is really good shit. It's less Devil Dogsy than others are sayin', too. I know their name makes it tempting to point and maintain, but I hear more Rip Off than anything. Odd how many current bands are mining both early Rip Off sounds & the Devil Dogs sametime, because (for some reason) the two seemed fairly diff back in the day. It ain't anything new, the songs aren't tops & there isn't anything interesting conceptually going on, but these young coal smokers from absolutely nowhere are pushing things along with a high dose of energy & recklessness, which is more than enough for a buncha spins. - Terminal-Boredom.com

Hot-shit balls-OUT rock n' roll from West Virginia that makes me break out in sweaty abandon and boils my beer! Flash-fried riffs and crashing drums are what we crave and this is making my weak heart shake and convulse. Make it stop! Can these kids even buy beer yet? Hell, if they can get over here before midnight, I'll buy em a case, no charge. - Horizontal Action

Sure beats whats on the radio. And by beat I mean with a baseball bat with a spike driven into it… and the beating is really, really fast. - Rocktober

Balls out in your face rock n roll(Motorhead would be proud) from the back ass woods of West Virginia. Three guys making a lot of great noise during these four tunes of angst and love. - Punk Planet

Rambunctious Rip Off rock n roll. A much better song selection than the split with the Give Ups mentioned elsewhere. S’cuse me while I get the air guitar a twangin’. - Razorcake

I want to get the Radio Beats on the same bill as the Figgs and the Ergs so that I can hear “Kill Your Man,””Girl, Kill Your Boyfriend,” and “Obligatory Song About Killing One’s Boyfriend” all in one misanthropic evening. And it would be a great show too. The Radio Beats play kind of melodic garage punk that would lead well into the Ergs and their very melodic high speed pop and punk, which would lead well into the Figgs and their very melodic, mid tempo power pop. Blow You Up is a good, ep, but I bet I’ll like the Radio Beats more after the Misanthrope Fest. - Go Metric

BIG NECK keeps on searching the vaults of today's American rawk'n'roll, and lucky me they got their mits on these RADIO BEATS from West Virginia... this is the second single for this band playing together since 2002 and it's a total fucked-up punk rock mess which blew me up, really!! Guess that's what they intended doing when calling the single this way... these youngsters pull out a bastard child of DEVIL DOGS-alike rock and pop hooks deranged into the speed of bands like THE DWARVES, resulting into a pretty much fresh sound which won't leave disappointed the fans of the aforementioned bands, nor the occasional punk rock listener. This is raw, has the attitude and the hooks you need to spin it over and over. A very promising start, can't wait to hear more!!! - Garbage Dump

Weird ! The Devil Dogs’ bassist name was Steve and The Radio Beats’ bassist name is Steve. Eerie ! Spooky ! But not as spooky as Raul in underwear (Trust me, this spanish guy got an hairy ass). The Radio Beats, new band on Big Neck, is a lo-fi, punker version of the Devil Dogs. Great, catchy, noisy lo-fi punk rock n’roll that stick in your head all day long and even a bit into the night (if you dream of a Radio Beats show, email me, I wanna know how it was! I’ll probably be there, drunk...cuz yup, I’m drunk even in my dreams !) I don’t know when they’ll put out and LP, but if YOU do, email me too...I’ll probably be drunk but i’ll be able to read the emails. This record is probably great when you’re drunk. Their show is probably great when you’re drunk ! HELL ! I guess they play their shows drunk and wasted...They should, it’s a lot of fun ! Maybe they taped that 7’’ while they were drunk...I know I’m drunk while writting this reviews...Maybe I should stop writting reviews when I come back from a long nite of drinking. Anyway, drunk or not, The RADIO BEATS ARE FUCKIN GREAT ! Go buy this one ! NOW ! - Psychotic Reaction

Three loudmouths blast out 4 tracks of pure Devil Dogs meets the Dwarves lofi trashpunk before you can say Teengenerate. Nothing original around here I'm afraid, but at least the Radio Beats whip out their rock'n'roll mayhem with a severe obnoxiousness you wouldn't expect when you look at the babyfaces on the back cover. This stuff is great for the 7" format but would certainly get kinda tiring pretty quickly when stretched out over a whole full-length album. These young'uns got a good starting point here so let's hope that they'll find a style of their own (even if it's only a hint) for future releases. I'll keep my eyes peeled. - Trash Compactor

Induced by Dwarves and Devil Dogs influences, this 7" whips by with unbridled speed and leaves you in a cloud of smoke. Great dirt-track punk n roll from West Virginia that has what it takes to get the bodies movin' and the beers flyin,. - Rock'n'Roll Purgatory

Alright, here we go again. After a delay of at least three months, I've finally blown the dust off of my trusty old turntable that I put into storage over 6 months ago. No, I haven't lost my love of vinyl or grown weary of writing reviews ala Lord Rutledge. I've just been too damn lazy or busy (pick one) to be bothered to grab it after an unexpected move. I finally received in the mail a couple of pieces of wax that inspired me to get off my ass, grab my turntable, and get typing again. These motivational masterpieces came in the form of two 7"s by the critically lauded, West Virginia/Pittsburgh based (how's that for a practice commute?) band The Radio Beats, formerly known as The All Stars. But, as stated deep on the inside groove of one these puppies, "This Is Not The All Stars". Where The All Stars, by reputation, were full blown Ramones core, this outfit is an all together new animal which bases its musical output on two much more ferocious beasts. Namely the mighty Teengenerate and the tried and true, classic, Rock And Roll juggernaut The Devil Dogs. Sure, this is an overstated fact (just read any other reviews). But the truth is the truth, and they do a bang up job of continuing the sugary pop coated, sand blasting legacy of their idols and/or influences. Besides, this is not sheer mimicry, and I believe in wearing your influences proudly on your well worn snot swiped, striped sleeves. I won't break down these two 7"s into review form because other than one side of four which showcases The Give-Ups, you should already know what to expect from The Radio Beats over a two slab, 6 song set. Trashy, scuzzed out, over-amped, sheer rawk bliss that's akin to Chuck Berry hopped up on a bathtub full of crystal meth and playing through a blown Vox amp turned up to 11. - Now Wave