Warren Oakes

Quality 0.50 · 0 views · Updated 2 months ago

American drummer (born 1981)

title: "Warren Oakes" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1981-births", "living-people", "against-me!-members", "american-punk-rock-drummers", "american-male-drummers", "21st-century-american-drummers", "musicians-from-gainesville,-florida", "musicians-from-sarasota,-florida", "drummers-from-florida"] description: "American drummer (born 1981)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Oakes" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American drummer (born 1981) ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox musical artist"]

Field	Value
name	Warren Oakes
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
birth_name	William Warren Oakes
birth_date
birth_place	Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
origin	Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
genre	Folk punk, punk rock
occupation	Restaurateur, musician, drummer
years_active	2001- present
label	No Idea, Fat Wreck Chords, Sire
associated_acts	Against Me!, Sunshine State
instruments	drums, percussion
::

William Warren Oakes (born January 23, 1981) is an American drummer best known for his eight years spent as the drummer for the punk rock band Against Me!.

On June 8, 2009, Oakes announced that he was leaving the band to pursue a career as a restaurateur. He is now a part owner of Boca Fiesta, a restaurant located in Gainesville, Florida that focuses on the fusion of southern and Mexican cuisine, as well as a venue space, The Backyard, that houses music shows, dance nights, and many more events.

Oakes is also well known for popularizing the freeganism movement, with the publication of his zine, Why Freegan?

Oakes formed the band Sunshine State along with Troy Perlman, Mike Magarelli and Kyle Flick in 2013. With the release of their first album Pour in 2014, Oakes gave an interview with Punk News where he spoke about the changes to a new career, new band, and their upcoming performances.

On March 5, 2022 SPIN magazine wrote an article to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Against Me! album Reinventing Axl Rose saying: "It’s the transformative folk-punk album’s 20th birthday."

Oakes responded to the magazine's publication by saying: "Had a nice little trip down memory lane doing an interview for, and reading, this incredibly in-depth oral history of a very fun time in my life. Happy 20th Axl, I’ll buy you your very first pint of Guinness for your 21st next year!"

Discography

Main article: Against Me!#Discography

::data[format=table] | Year of Release | Title | Label | Charts | |---|---|---|---| | 2002 | Reinventing Axl Rose | No Idea Records | | | 2003 | As the Eternal Cowboy | Fat Wreck Chords | #36 Independent Albums | | 2005 | Searching for a Former Clarity | Fat Wreck Chords | #114 US #1 Heatseeker #9 Independent Albums | | 2007 | New Wave | Sire Records | #57 US | | 2008 | STOP - Rock the vote version | Sire Records | |- | ::

References

(February 2022)
(January 1986). "SPIN –". SPIN Media LLC.
(June 10, 2009). "Against Me! Drummer Ditches Fame For Burritos – Music, Celebrity, Artist News". MTV.
"A Farewell From Warren Oakes – MySpace-blog | van Against Me!". Blogs.myspace.com.
"BOCA FIESTA".
"THE BACKYARD AT BOCA FIESTA & PALOMINO".
Skidelsky, William. (July 19, 2009). "The freegans' creed: waste not, want not". The Guardian.
"Music: Sunshine State: 'State or Die'".
Punknews.org. "Interviews: Warren Oakes (Sunshine State, Against Me!)".
(2022-03-05). "'Goddammit, We're Gonna Take This Somewhere!': The Oral History of Against Me!'s Reinventing Axl Rose".

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::