The Biggest and the Best

Slick Shoes
Slick Shoes performing in 2016
Background information
Origin	Antelope Valley, United States
Genres	Punk rock, pop punk, skate punk
Years active	1994–2004, 2007–2008, 2011–2012, 2015-present
Labels	SideOneDummy, Tooth & Nail, Fueled by Ramen
Members	Ryan Kepke Joe Nixon Jackson Mould Jeremiah Brown
Past members	Jonah Peterson Dale Yob Greg Togawa David Stoltenberg Adam Stiletto Kevin Clark Josh Kleven Bill Lanz Jordan Mould

Slick Shoes is a punk rock band from Antelope Valley, California. Their name comes from the hit 1985 movie, The Goonies, 'slick shoes' being one of the character Data's many gadgets. The band formed in 1994 and made their first release as a self-titled EP in 1997. They released sixfull-length CDs, four of them on Seattle-based Tooth & Nail Records. They also released an EP, a split with Autopilot Off and a greatest hits CD entitled The Biggest & The Best, featuring three previously unreleased songs.

The band had gone through numerous line-up changes over the years, but singer Ryan Kepke and Joe Nixon (drums) performed on every release, while Jeremiah Brown (bass) played on all except their final album, Far From Nowhere. This was their first release without Tooth and Nail Records, which they left, not for religious reasons, but merely because their contract had finished and the band felt the need for a change. Far From Nowhere was released on SideOneDummy Records in the summer of 2003.

The band was particularly successful in the Christian punk scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s and toured alongside their peers, both secular and Christian (most notably bands such as Face to Face and MxPx, respectively). They also played certain legs of the Vans Warped Tour in 2003. Since then, the band has described themselves as agnostic -- not necessarily attributing scientific "wonders" (such as childbirth) in their lives to any specific deity. Ryan Kepke, in a 2015 interview with Vice, admitted that he "hasn't believed in God in at least half a decade," and considers Jesus Christ "one in a long line of interesting philosophers to emerge from the Middle East."