Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic Texas congressman running for Ted Cruz's Senate situate, once played in a punk band called Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala of At the Drive In and the Mars Volta. This week, @TexasGOP Twitter account endeavored to utilize O'Rourke's DIY past against him by making images with old pictures of Foss from the '90s. (Their methodology reverse discharges when it was uncovered that Ted Cruz once played an emulate in an execution of the Christian creation story.) In light of all the consideration put on Foss, O'Rourke has uncovered an old account from the band's The El Paso Pussycats EP, which they issued while O'Rourke was at Columbia University. Tune in to the track by means of Rolling Stone.

In a meeting with RS, O'Rourke visited amid his mid year break and meeting a youthful Leslie Feist, who was holding up in line to see the band at their stop in Calgary. "My memory is [she] didn't have any cash to get in thus she exchanged, I trust, her sibling's lock-picking set and a T-shirt or a tape and after that we exchanged her a ticket to get in," O'Rourke says. "And after that when we came through one year from now, she had a band considered Placebo that we played with." O'Rourke likewise talked about how he met Bixler-Zavala in any case and his initial melodic motivations (Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Ian MacKaye's Dischord Records).

In 1995, O’Rourke also played drums in a band called the Swedes, led by Julie Beth Napolin (who is now a sound studies professor). A project by the band is now on Bandcamp, and it includes a cover of Galaxie 500 covering Jonathan Richman’s “Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste.” Galaxie 500’s Damon Krukowski caught wind of the recording and tweeted, “Wait seriously is that @BetoORourke playing drums on a cover of our cover of Jonathan Richman?” Check it out below.