Hot Water Music is going to turn 21 next year. Let that sink in for a moment. The fiery Gainesville band is, i’m sure, responsible for more than their fair share of nights of drunken debauchery - and now kids born at the same time the band started are about to be old enough to partake. ...

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Alkaline Trio’s 2007 Occult Roots tour became sort of a gold standard for me. On that tour, they played their 1999 debut album Goddammit all the way through, gave frontmen Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano each a solo set, and played an additional set of songs voted on by their fans. ...

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Dave Hause is known and loved by many as the lead singer for The Loved Ones, which is one of my favorite bands of the past decade. But Hause also has a thriving solo career, releasing the excellent Resolutions earlier this year on Paper + Plastick Records. While at the Hard Rock Café on the Strip in Las Vegas and before his set opening up for Alkaline Trio, Hause sat down with Punks in Vegas to record a Stripped Down Session. The song is called C’Mon Kid, and can be found both on the 2009 Revival Tour compilation (acoustic) and on Resolutions (electric). ...

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