Allegedly the 13-year-old Dave Grohl‘s first concert, Naked Raygun hold an important and much-loved position in the canon of American punk. This tribute album, a benefit for the family of longtime Raygun and Pegboy bass player Pierre Kezdy who died of cancer in 2020, is a tangible expression of the love and esteem the band and its various offshoots have been held in by the music community since their formation in 1980. What’s immediately apparent from the song selection covered by the contributors is how well-crafted and brilliantly joyous the Naked Raygun catalogue is. If nothing else, this album should drive us all back to the originals to enjoy in all their pummelling, uplifting melodic splendour. When you put all that aside, what you get with this album is what would be a f...