Anti-Flag – Every Show Joe

A Sunday Night with Anti-Flag and We Are The Union

December 9, 2022January 22, 2024 Every Show JoeAnti-Flag, Arizona, Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, Psychobilly, Punk, Punk Rock, Rockabilly, Ska, The Limit Club, Venomous Pinks, WATU, We Are The Union

Since my long haul Covid has continued to keep me struggling with chronic fatigue, I started to set positive goals. Positive motivations for things I will do once this symptom is finally gone. However, this symptom has kept going and talking to my doctor we cannot pinpoint when exactly it will end. Despite that, time progressed toward one of those goals. That goal from the tour announcement was to get out to Anti-Flag with We Are the Union and Doll Skin and hopefully get to photograph it too. In that…

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Punk Rock Bowling 2021: Day 0 and 1

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Every Show JoeAnti-Flag, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Descendents, Dilliinger Four, Folk Music, Frank Turner, Fremont Country Club, Garage Rock, Get Dead, Jerk, Las Vegas, Make War, PEARS, Pegboy, Punk, Punk Rock, Punk Rock Bowling, Ska, Ska Punk, Strung Out, Suicide Machines, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Darts, The Linecutters, The Run Around, The Uppers

Turns out there are ways to make two and a half years feel like forever. Of course, the idiot in the White House spewing nonsense daily was a regular attack on our mental well being. Then in 2020, our favorite musicians touring and festivals came to a grinding for the safety of one another with Covid 19 on the spread. Those of us being morons about wearing masks and keeping quarantined had a year and a half of streams by those same artists and a few of the festivals, including…

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The Message of Unity

February 4, 2018February 4, 2018 Every Show JoeAnti-Flag, Arizona, Club Red, Hardcore, Mesa, Punk, Sharptooth, Stray from the Path, The White Noise

This show was a different kind of line up for me. I don’t usually listen to a lot of hardcore punk. There are exceptions, with the fantastic PEARS and Tarter Control. But I usually just don’t get into the Hardcore punk. Enter a night where one of the highest ranking bands on my favorites list, Anti-Flag, comes to town with three of them in tow. If anyone this night made a case for another Hardcore band that I could get into, it was Sharptooth. This was a band with similar…

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Best Albums of 2017: The Nationals Edition

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018 Every Show JoeAlestorm, Anti-Flag, Authority Zero, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Best Of 2017, Direct Hit, Fare Game, Flogging Molly, Matamoska, PEARS, Propaghandi, Redneck Nosferatu, Rozwell Kid, The Bombpops, The Bronx, The Lillingtons, The Menzingers

While the locals list is certainly the more special list to me, that national list is a good glimpse into my personal taste. The national list of favorites I expanded to fifteen to include bands that aren’t local, but would be considered local if I did live in their city. There was certainly a couple that I felt blended in and beat a few of the national acts. So with that in mind, let’s go down the list from fifteen to my favorite album of 2017. Side note, a couple…

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Twenty Years Later

February 5, 2017February 8, 2017 Every Show JoeAnti-Flag, Arizona, Ballyhoo!, marquee theatre, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Punk, Reel Big Fish, Reggae, Ska, Tempe, We Were Stereo, Yucca Tap Room

Twenty Years, two decades, those national crowds have been listening and watching both Anti-Flag and Reel Big Fish. That’s two thirds of my life they’ve been in my life, although my listening to either didn’t start until about two years after that listening to Ska Punk on the old Edge 106.3. Turning sixteen with a shiny new driver’s license, I filled that void of a quiet car with the local radio airwaves. This tour, while not an expected combination of headliners, brought me great excitement to watch two favorite bands…