As with so many important stories, the one about Wild Records starts with an Irishman walking into a bar. That'd be Reb Kennedy, a lifelong punk rocker who'd spent his recent years getting back to the roots of rock & roll and who found himself in a dive in Downey one night in 2003, waiting to see a bunch of no-name bands playing what the flier called, "Mexican Rock & Roll." Onstage were Lil Luis y Los Wild Teens, a ragged-at-the-edges group of actual wild teens gargling alcohol and regurgitating exhilarating insanity. Kennedy recognized it instantly—the same energy he'd seen when he worked at English punk label Rough Trade and signed... More >>>