The journal
Shows worth caring about.
Previews, opinions, and the occasional rant about the tours coming through in the months ahead. Punk, alt-rock, and whatever else makes a basement louder.
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AFI Decide Sing the Sorrow Wasn't Enough
23 dates, two countries, and a band still allergic to its own greatest-hits set.
A back catalogue thick enough to be a coffee-table book — and a band that still refuses to phone it in.
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The Menzingers Are Still Writing Songs About the People You Forgot
A fall tour that starts at Lost Evenings and ends in Brooklyn, with the same heartland-punk gravity in between.
Two months of dates, theatres a size too small, and a band that turns regret into a singalong.
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Two Bands That Refused to Mellow
Alkaline Trio and Rise Against co-headline a tour built for anyone whose 2003 Warped Tour stub is still in a sock drawer.
Not a nostalgia trip — both bands still write songs that mean something.
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Camp Punksylvania, or: How to Spend Three Days in the Woods With Ice-T
Body Count, PUP, and Face to Face headline a festival that takes the 'camp' part literally.
Small, local, opinionated. A festival run by people who go to shows.