John “Jughead” Pierson, known most prominently, alongside Ben Weasel, as a founding member of Screeching Weasel, has reentered the so-called punk rock spotlight through his new band Semi-Famous. First devised as the fictious subject of Pierson’s not-so-fictitious novel Weasels in a Box, Semi-Famous has been brought to life by the release of Destroy Ourselves, a 14-track pop-punk debut of Rare Bird/ Duck! records featuring the “supergroup” lineup of Ryan Rockwell of Mixtapes, Poli van Dam (formerly of The Bombpops), Billy Brown, and Tyson Cornell. Based loosely on Screeching Weasel, “Weasels in a Box” toed the line between fictitious dialogue and real-life experience. Now living in Japan, Pierson has scratched his creative musical itch by teaming up...