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“We recorded sporadically, whenever Dave was able to come home,” she said. The first fall Steiner was in the city, she and Sagan made the first Ratboys album, AOID. Steiner graduated from Notre Dame a year before Sagan-who was finishing a five-year program-and would bounce from a short Men’s World Cup internship stint in Dublin to briefly taking shelter at her parents’ house in Kentucky before settling down in Chicago. “ took a lot of pressure off us so we could focus on making records and what we were putting into the live show, versus ‘Fuck, the show fell through today. “We were still booking everything ourselves,” Neumann, who became the band’s permanent bassist in 2016, added. It made sense that we were gathered at High Road’s showcase at that very moment, given how they became such an integral part of Ratboys’ evolution from a strictly DIY band six years ago.

“We’re definitely focused on trying to make it sustainable and do it as well as possible,” Nuccio, who’s been with Ratboys since 2017 and also drums in local groups Pet Symmetry, What Gives and The Please & Thank Yous, chimed in. Sagan noted that a big part of the work now is building an infrastructure to play music they’re proud of and can make a living off of it, too. Making music together in dorm rooms, there weren’t many goals on the table aside from, as Steiner put it, “making music that we thought sounded good and showing it to our friends.” Fast forward to a decade and nine drummers later, and you’ll find the quartet deeply immersed in their own mountainous groove.

Ratboys began 13 years ago in South Bend at the University of Notre Dame, where Steiner and Sagan were studying. Perhaps it was the romantic in me-or just my exhausted, plane-fatigued brain on night one of SXSW-but everything came together so perfectly under the sparkle of a Texan evening, as the light pollution ensconced the whole joint just right. Julia Steiner, Dave Sagan, Marcus Nuccio and Sean Neumann slid a mountain of tater tots around the table to each hungry mouth, fueling up for their end-of-the-night set at High Road Touring’s showcase.

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It was almost midnight, as the clear-skied night cracked open and an aperture of neon washed over the entire venue. On a humid Tuesday night at SXSW in Austin two months ago, Ratboys sat together at a picnic table next to Arlo’s-a vegan BBQ truck stationed in front of Cheer Up Charlie’s.

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