In certain punk circles, Twisted Teens have already made it. That’s partially due to bandleader Caspian Hollywell’s time on the circuit in the defunct anarchist group Blackbird Raum, who jump-started the folk-punk movement almost 20 years ago. But mainly, it’s the result of the New Orleans duo’s unique stamp on the sound of underground punk: Hollywell, often in a leather vest, howls with a pack-a-day voice over racing, lo-fi guitar, while RJ Santos, always sporting a dapper suit and tie, plays pedal steel. It’s garage punk with an old-school country twang; as their personality seeps through the sound like dye, it takes on the color of music’s sepia-toned past and technicolor present.

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