The Ratchets Set the House on Fire with New Single "Can't Walk Until You Run"
"You can’t burn without the sun" sing New Jersey punk rockers The Ratchets, and the band have crafted the perfect single to welcome in the Spring of 2025. It's an ideal song to blast with the windows down on a coastline drive on your way to get up to no good.
On their new single "Can't Walk Until You Run," The Ratchets are in classic form: channeling the roots rock rebel guitar heroics of peak-era Clash while spitting out lyrics narrating rollicking tales of drug mules in Latin America & black market misadventures in Russia. Firing on all cylinders, the band brings a wry sense of humor to vignettes that allude to our global economy of vice & violence. After all, what other band could craft a catchy singalong with the phrase "dialectical materialism?"
"Can't Walk Until You Run" is the latest in The Ratchets' ongoing singles campaign through Pirates Press Records, and their second release of 2025. It is available on all major streaming platforms as well as Bandcamp NOW, along with a dub & new wave-influenced B-side re-mix by Strawberry Zaiquiri called "Haus Feuer."
