Rad City Radio frontman Garrett Dale brought his solo-set-meets-improv-comedy show to this year’s Punk Rock Bowling, playing a brunch show in the Golden Nugget’s Rush Lounge. ...
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If there’s one thing I learned watching Descendents close out Sunday’s PRB festival proper, it’s that exhaustion is nothing a cup of coffee can’t fix. So after downing enough caffeine to put Bill Stevenson to shame, I made my way from the blacktop to the Backstage Bar. ...
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Jun 10, 2016
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Images, Punk Rock Bowling
Tagged Playboy Manbaby, red city radio, Teenage Bottlerocket
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Like a punk rock Sacagawea, we wanted to help you navigate through the, at last count, 7.4 million bands playing this weekend. So before we go dark for a bit, team PIV compiled this list of our favorites, displayed here in fabulous alphabetical order. ...
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May 26, 2016
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Punks in Vegas
Tagged be like max, buzzcocks, dag nasty, Descendents, dillinger four, grant hart, night birds, off with their heads, red city radio, Teenage Bottlerocket
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Admittedly, I’m not terribly familiar with Teenage Bottlerocket’s previous five albums, but I’m a huge fan of TBR co-frontman Kody Templeton’s other band The Lillingtons. ...
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We kicked off Independence Day weekend with Bottlerockets and Bombpops - what a great way to celebrate ‘Merica. ...
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Jul 9, 2015
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Tagged franks & deans, Guilty by Association, Mercy Music, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Bombpops
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I've been a huge fan of Teenage Bottlerocket for so long that it almost seemed unreal when co-frontman Ray Carlisle agreed to meet up with us at the Beauty Bar before the band's October 1st show with The Queers and The Copyrights. Their music is so catchy and so much fun and I thought they'd be naturals to go unplugged for a few songs and Carlisle proved me right, with rad acoustic versions of "Todayo" from They Came From the Shadows and "Fall For Me," which originally appears on Total. ...
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October and November are jam packed with awesome shows this year, but the one I was most looking forward to came first – and will likely be hard to top. It was a pop punk power house bill with The Queers, Teenage Bottlerocket and The Copyrights, coinciding with Beauty Bar’s Nickel Beer night, so I knew it was going to be a packed show. While the dirt cheap booze was a good enough incentive to bring out the drinkers, I think more than a few of them were won over by the bands’ hook-driven sets. ...
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