Beggar Weeds

Beggar Weeds were this killer Jacksonville, Florida trio formed in the mid-1980s, blending punk grit with jangly Southern folk, pop, and country vibes—like the Everly Brothers on speed, or R.E.M. meets Replacements and Hüsker Dü. They chased the offbeat on tour, detouring for weird roadside museums and oddities, sleeping under trucks, opening for bands like X and Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, and even skinny-dipping with David Berman, all while dropping their raw, melodic 1988 EP *Sure Pants Alot* and stashing unreleased gems co-produced by superfan Michael Stipe.

After years of Southern road trips and label buzz that fizzled amid the grunge shift, they called it quits in 1992, frayed but tight-knit. Now, as empty nesters, they've reunited to drop *Tragedy in U.S. History* on February 20, 2026 via Strolling Bones Records—a career retrospective packing that EP plus those vaulted Stipe tracks like "Graduating" and "Seer," finally giving their subversive, heartfelt underground rock the spotlight it deserves.