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Awesome Fest 11 Saturday @ The Office, Bar Pink, Soda Bar, & Space Bar, San Diego

Paul Silver — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:03:05 +0000

The Awesome Fest daytime shows don’t start until mid-afternoon, but you still encounter many a bleary-eyed or hung-over punk wandering in after the first few bands have already played. The daytime shows were held at The Office, as usual, and Bar Pink, a new venue for this fest. Bar Pink is closer to The Office than previous venue U31, and is partly owned by John Reis of Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, and others. Anchoring the Saturday afternoon shows was Bad Cop/Bad Cop.

After an afternoon spent partying with bands and booze, many attendees took a power nap in order to re-energize for the night’s festivities, while others simply grabbed a quick dinner and headed back to Soda Bar and Space Bar. As always, the night started out lightly attended and ended packed. Tonight’s closers were Toys That Kill, but other highlights included Chicago’s Canadian Rifle and Los Angeles’ Dimber.

Awesome Fest 11 announces additional bands

Paul Silver — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:40:48 +0000

The Awesome Fest 11 gang of six today announced another group of bands that will perform at the three-day festival, 16-18 February, 2018 in San Diego.

This announcement coincides with the end of early bird ticket pricing. Bands added include Dead To Me, Fleshies, Toys That Kill, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Ash Williams, Canadian Rifle, Clown Sounds, Cruz Radical, Decent Criminal, DFMK, Justus Proffit, Playboy Manbaby, Rad, Reunions, Robot (Re)pair, Shellshag, Snuggle!, Squishers, and The Trashies. More bands will be announced in coming weeks.

Awesome Fest is of intentionally limited scale and is aimed at showcasing the diversity, intensity, and beauty of DIY punk music. The organizers’ goal is to provide a safe, intimate venue to watch awesome bands, discover new music, and to hang out with friends from all over the US and the world. Awesomefest is not for profit and run by an all-volunteer staff.

For more information, the current band line-up, and tickets, go to Awesome Fest 11’s website.

Wiretap Records release new charity compilation in aid of ACLU

Aaron Lohan — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 12:19:26 +0000

Wiretap Records have put together a charity compilation entitled ‘Attention!’.

Featuring the likes of Kamikaze Girls, Gender Roles, The Apology Tour, Guillotine, Deer Leap, Odd Robot, Aviator and more, the release is available for PWYW download on bandcamp. All proceeds will go towards aiding the ACLU.

ATTENTION! A Wiretap Records Charity Compilation (August 2017) by Various

Decent Criminal, Gentlemen Prefer Blood, Pale Angels, Jerri Queen, Jason Paul & the Know It Alls, Pinned In Place @ Parks & Rock, Anaheim, CA

Paul Silver — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 08:25:54 +0000

It’s always a special time when Pale Angels get together and tour because the members of the trio live in very disparate parts of the world. The last time they toured the US, part of it was with Ohio’s Vacation, so this time they paired up with Vacation’s Jerri Queen, who was performing (mostly) solo. The show took place in the newly named Parks & Rock, the exterior room at Out of the Park Pizza in Anaheim, California. Topping off the night were the San Francisco Bay Area’s Decent Criminal and locals Gentlemen Prefer Blood. Opening were Jason Paul & the Know It Alls, along with Pinned In Place.

Superchunk, The Movielife, Grade, City of Caterpillar and more added to The Fest 16

Aaron Lohan — Wed, 24 May 2017 22:03:12 +0000

Florida’s The Fest 16 have added a bunch of bands to their already stacked line up.

Joining the likes of Hot Water Music, Against Me!, Hum, Rainer Maria, Snapcase and more are the following bands:

Superchunk, Pegboy, The Movielife, Grade, City of Caterpillar, Majority Rule, You Blew It, Career Suicide, Chris Gethard, Able Baker Fox, toyGuitar, Apologies, I Have None, Rozwell Kid, Into It. Over It., Banner Pilot, No Trigger, MC Lars, Cadillac Blindside, Squirtgun, MakeWar, Great Cynics, Wild Pink, Sundressed, Worriers, Western Addiction, Tiltwheel, Timeshares, Walter, Etc., Whiskey & Co., Katie Ellen, UV-TV, Wet Nurse, Joe McMahon, The Dirty Nil, The Atom Age, Bad Cop / Bad Cop, Astpai, Pet Symmetry, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, Vacation Bible School, Shellshag, Extinction A.D., Such Gold, Sunshine State, Deadaires, Baggage, Decent Criminal, Honey Joy, Adult Magic, Pacemaker, Gender Roles, Post Teens, Sciatic Nerve, Too Many Daves, Aaron Rev (Success), Dredger, Andy Thomas’ Dust Heart, Boyfriend Material, Army Of Ponch, Thin Lips, Blood on the Harp, The Duppies, Lauren Denitzio, Attic Salt, SteveO and the Crippling Addictions, Debt Neglector, Nervous Triggers, Insignificant Other, Anna’s Anchor, Rational Anthem, Pale Angels, James Alex (Weston/ Beach Slang), Bat Boy, Chotto Ghetto, Sic Waiting, I Like Allie, Seth Anderson, Yotam Ben Horin (Useless ID), Old Vices, Telepathic Lines, Heat Rash, Soul Glo, Frigs, Allout Helter, Notches, Winded, Shells, Bitemarks, Divine Feed, Sandspur City, Ceramicats, Woolbright, Alumine, Quinn Cicala, Orbiter, Walt Hamburger, Gutless, and Crit!

It will take place in Gainesville, Florida between October 27-29. All details and tickets can be found at the official Fest Website. Don’t forget that Pre-Fest will also take place in Little Ybor from the 25th to 26th October!

Decent Criminal share video for ‘Binge’

Ben Tipple — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:27:32 +0000

With their self-titled album released a few days ago, Californian punks Decent Criminal have unveiled the official video for ‘Binge’.

According to their Facebook post, the band drew inspiration from DZ Deathrays and Dune Rats for this one.

Decent Criminal stream self-titled album in full

Ben Tipple — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:38:26 +0000

Californian surf inspired punks Decent Criminal are streaming their self-titled full-length. The record is available now via BandCamp courtesy of Dumptruck Records and Endless Bummer.

Decent Criminal by Decent Criminal

For more on Decent Criminal, check out Facebook.

Decent Criminal unveil video for ‘Death’

Ben Tipple — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 11:21:13 +0000

California’s Decent Criminal have unveiled the official video for new track, ‘Death’. The song is the first to appear from their forthcoming self-titled record.

The record is expected to drop in early January, so if you like what you hear there’s not long to wait at all.

For more on Decent Criminal, check out Facebook.