Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic Texas congressman running for Ted Cruz’s Senate seat, once played in a punk band called Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala of At the Drive In and the Mars Volta. This week, @TexasGOP Twitter account tried to use O’Rourke’s DIY past against him by making memes with old pictures of Foss from the ’90s. (Their strategy backfired when it was revealed that Ted Cruz once played a mime in a performance of the Christian creation story.) In light of all the attention placed on Foss, O’Rourke has unearthed an old recording from the band’s The El Paso Pussycats EP, which they issued while O’Rourke was at Columbia University. Listen to the track via Rolling Stone.

In an interview with RS, O’Rourke recalls touring during his summer break and meeting a young Leslie Feist, who was waiting in line to see the band at their stop in Calgary. “My memory is [she] didn’t have any money to get in and so she traded, I believe, her brother’s lock-picking set and a T-shirt or a tape and then we traded her a ticket to get in,” O’Rourke says. “And then when we came through next year, she had a band called Placebo that we played with.” O’Rourke also discussed how he met Bixler-Zavala in the first place and his early musical inspirations (Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Ian MacKaye’s Dischord Records).

In 1995, O’Rourke also played drums in a band called the Swedes, led by Julie Beth Napolin (who is now a sound studies professor). A project by the band is now on Bandcamp, and it includes a cover of Galaxie 500 covering Jonathan Richman’s “Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste.” Galaxie 500’s Damon Krukowski caught wind of the recording and tweeted, “Wait seriously is that @BetoORourke playing drums on a cover of our cover of Jonathan Richman?” Check it out below.

Back in July, O’Rourke played guitar with Willie Nelson and Margo Price during Nelson’s annual Fourth of July Picnic in Austin. Together, they performed Nelson’s stoner anthems like “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” and “It’s All Going to Pot.” In his campaign announcement last year, O’Rourke promised to resist Trump and “fight when necessary against a president who is focused on building walls, or conducting military immigrant round-ups.”