HIGH HOPES
Ravagers
Part Hanoi Rocks, part their skanky selves, meet the band soundtracking the end of the world.
“Some tours were hard. We’d get into fights. We would hate each other towards the end.”
DANNY SIEBENHAAR/PRESS
Ravagers are the US’s greatest post-apocalyptic rock’n’roll band. I dunno if you realise this, but it’s over, man. The good guys lost.
“I thought it was a cool concept,” says Ravagers main man Alex Hagen from his hotel in Spain, where the band are on tour. “The name reminded me of a seventies exploitation grindhouse movie where the world is over, and there’s just rabid gangs of crazy people on the streets. I related that a lot to the neighborhood I lived in in Baltimore when I started the band.”