Teenage Kicks®

Cow Punk

by Bill DeVille

August 09, 2025

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(L-R) Warner E. Hodges, Jason Ringerberg and Al Collins of the band Jason and the Scorchers perform during Music City Roots at The Loveless Barn on June 16, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee.
(L-R) Warner E. Hodges, Jason Ringerberg and Al Collins of the band Jason and the Scorchers perform during Music City Roots at The Loveless Barn on June 16, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee.Beth Gwinn/Getty Images

This week on Teenage Kicks, we're going to do a full episode of cow punk. It's that subgenre that kind of falls right between punk rock and country music. You'll hear artists like Jason and the Scorchers, X, the Jayhawks, Neko Case and more. Can I get a "yee-haw"?

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Program Playlist, hour 1
Program Playlist, hour 2

Gallery
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Neko Case
Alt-country singer-songwriter Neko Case poses for a portrait on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, in New York.
Dan Hallman/Invision/AP
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X the band in 1981
X photographed on a rooftop in Los Angeles in 1981.
Michael Hyatt
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The Jayhawks 2015
The Jayhawks in 2015
courtesy the artists
Cow Punk