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AJJ’s Knife Man 10th Anniversary Tour Hits The Nile

October 8, 2021October 8, 2021 Every Show JoeAJJ, Arizona, Emperor X, Folk Music, Folk Punk, Mesa, nile theater, Punk Rock

It has been a little bit since last AJJ played a hometown show. Of course, there was the before vaccine times of Covid and where everything came to a grinding halt for the safety of one another. So it was an understandable longer time. However, a really cool thing about AJJ during that time is they did weekly streams with Sean and occasionally more on their Instagram through the entire quarantining period. On a similar safety note with this tour, they are working to make it vaccinated only and ask…

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Punk Rock Bowling 2021: Day 3

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Every Show Joe2 Tone, ALL, Babe Patrol, Crazy & The Brains, DEVO, Downtown Grand, Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, Indie Rock, Las Vegas, Lunachicks, Punk, Punk Rock, Punk Rock Bowling, Riverboat Gamblers, Rock, Rocksteady, Ska, Starving Wolves, The Last Gang, The Schizophonics, The Slackers, The Twits

The last day had finally come of Punk Rock Bowling 2021. It felt like my endurance had improved from the past two and half days on my feet, a welcomed sign. Nonetheless, I was taking on chances and giving my feet and my possible ankle sprain a little more time off to rest. Then it was dashing down to put in a little food and catch the main stage openers one more time to finish this punk rock vacation of a weekend. The Twits I heard they were the youngest…

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Punk Rock Bowling 2021: Day 2

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Every Show JoeA Giant Dog, Circle Jerks, Crazy & The Brains, Decent Criminal, Downtown Grand, Drakulas, Garage Rock, Grumpster, Indie Rock, Las Vegas, Laura Jane Grace, New Wave, Playboy Manbaby, Punk, Punk Rock, Punk Rock Bowling, Ska, Streetlight Manifesto, Suburban Resistance, The Bronx, Urethane, Youth Brigade

Day Two had me sleeping in to let my feet recover as much as possible for another jam packed day of music at Punk Rock Bowling. Unfortunately, that meant staying off my feet a little longer to extend their life to my photo taking plans at the evening club show with my friends in Playboy Manbaby. Regardless, the day continued to be filled with memory making moments and sets. Suburban Resistance Once again, I was here for the openers with good reason. Tom Urban, a man you may know for…

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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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Celebrating Ten Years of Playboy Manbaby

September 10, 2021September 10, 2021 Every Show JoeArizona, Garage Rock, Hardcore, Indie Rock, Mega Ran, Metal, Nedal, Okilly Dokilly, Phoenix, Playboy Manbaby, Punk, Punk Rock, The Van Buren, Together Pangea

The first time I saw Playboy Manbaby it was stumbling into them on stage at the Long Wongs location near Apache and McClintock. I was at Tempe Tavern and the friends I was hanging out with decided let’s jump over to see what was a walk down the street. What first drew me to them was immediately the brass section. That accompanied by the misidentifying them as another ska band in an otherwise starved local Ska band scene in 2012 in Phoenix. However, the tunes they played were punk with…

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I’d Call This A Mega Tour

August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 Every Show JoeAlternative Rock, Arizona, Arizona Federal Theatre, Descendents, Phoenix, Punk, Punk Rock, Rise Against, The Menzingers

There are concert lineups you don’t know how they came together, but you are happy they did. One of the more surprising in the past couple years for me, but makes sense after a minute to think about it, was Reverend Horton Heat, Fishbone, and Strung Out. While not as genre crossing, another three big names I didn’t expect to tour together would be the one from this night with Rise Against, Descendents, and the Menzingers at the Arizona Federal Theatre. More surprising is trying to figure out who headlines…

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A Skankin Good Time!

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Every Show JoeArizona, Bowcat, Darling Skye, Epic 18, Epic XVIII, Punk Rock, Ska, Ska Punk, Tempe, The Re-Adjusters, Yucca Tap Room

This was a show wrap up that started before I knew I had caught Covid 19. I had finished processing the photos the following Sunday night from the show and as I started to sit down to write the following day, the symptoms of Covid 19 started setting in. Given the early symptoms included sinus pressure, it created conflict with my ability to focus on writing about this wonderful night of Ska at the Yucca Tap Room. However, as I see the tail end of the symptoms I wanted to…

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A New Day

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 Every Show JoeArizona, Authority Zero, Galaxy Punk, Madd Dog Tannen, marquee theatre, Miles to Nowhere, Pop Punk, Punk, Punk Rock, Reggae Rock, Ska, Tempe

It was a night of nervous excitement for me. It was my first return to the Marquee Theatre in over a year and it was a day getting hyped by listening to the brand new Authority Zero album Ollie Ollie Oxen Free. There was anticipation in the air, not just from myself, but from everyone excited to see the night’s show after the past year and a half. It took a little for the spark to ignite, but that Marquee audience burst to life once they started to get comfortable…

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Punk In The Arizona Waterpark

June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Every Show JoeArizona, Big Surf, Face to Face, Good Riddance, H2O, Pennywise, Punk, Punk In the Park, Punk Rock, Slaughterhouse, Strung Out, Tempe, The Bombpops, Voodoo Glow Skulls

I have spent over a year watching live music through a computer monitor, my phone and occasionally on my TV. Due to the spread of Covid 19, live events were put on pause to try to reduce the spread. While for me, I have enjoyed the live streamed events and the more intimate interactions I have got with musicians it just wasn’t the same for many. It wasn’t the same as the energy you get from a room of friends made through the love of belting those lyrics back at…

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A Miles to Nowhere Practice

January 24, 2021January 24, 2021 Every Show JoeArizona, Carter Drive Sessions, Galaxy Punk, Miles to Nowhere, Punk, Punk Rock, Tempe

The past over ten months has been the longest I’ve gone without physical live music in over a decade. It has been a more insular time as trying to quarantine due to Covid 19, mask up when I go grocery shopping or anywhere near others, and where we have had to go to other outlets to get that music fix. For me, that outlet has been the thousands of musician and concert streams that have been organized or simply on a whim gone live the past ten plus months. One…