
BYO Records is excited to announce that Against Me!, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, Tsol, Adolescents, Filthy Thieving Bastards and Stretch Marks have been added to the lineup for the 12th annual Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival. The bands join a previously announced lineup that includes Flogging Molly, NOFX, Youth Brigade, F**Cked Up, The Revival Tour and many more.
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Every year I see news about the Punk Rock Bowling Tournament, and every year I feel like going. Just kind of hard to book tickets for a show that’s far away in Las Vegas. Besides Flogging Molly and NOFX, Fucked Up, Swinging Utters, The Revival Tour, Youth Brigade, Cobra Skulls, and Teenage Bottlerocket will be playing with the punk rock festival that is taking place over 3 days. And it’s open to the general public this year, so that’s pretty sweet! More details are below:
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British singer-songwriter Frank Turner has released his newest video for the title track of hid new album, “Poetry of the Deed.” The new video features a montage of Turner’s exhilarating live performances from the last few months and comes just in time for Turner’s trek across the US on “The Revival Tour” with Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music), Jim Ward (Sparta), Tim Barry (Avail), Joey Cape (Lagwagon) and Dave Hause (The Loved Ones) among others.
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For most of us the phrase Gold Country evokes memories of the 49ers who flocked to California by boat and covered wagon in order to seek fortune for themselves and their families. Chuck Ragan’s latest disc may be coming out a few lifetimes after the gold rush of the mid-nineteenth century, however there’s a timeless quality to the album that embodies the hope and hard work that helped define that period in the American consciousness. That has a lot to do with the fact that there’s nothing preconceived about Gold Country. It’s simply the sound of a talented songwriter doing what his kind has been doing for centuries: playing simple songs alongside a close group of friends not for hope of financial gains, but because he literally has no other choice.
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