Celebrating it’s 10-year anniversary, the Life is Shit festival is returning to the Dive Bar this weekend. It is a free/donation event, starting at 4:20pm with our homies in Bell Toll, and ending with it’s last act Vicious Vampira going on at 2AM. Checkout the press release below, as well as the full schedule. From press release: Life Is Shit Festival Returns to The Dive Bar Saturday, Sept 23 Life is Shit Festival is a DIY music festival founded in 2013 by members of the Las Vegas music community. It was started as a free punk/rock alternative to the corporate, pop-oriented Life is Beautiful Festival, but quickly became a cultural institution of its own. Despite its name, Life is Shit makes life less shitty for some, serving as a fundraiser each year for local charity Girls Rock Vegas — a summer camp and after-school program which teaches underprivileged, adolescent girls ...
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Our friends at The Punk Rock Museum were kind enough to invite us out to the opening celebration (and Joe’s Birthday) of their new Joe Strummer section. Amongst the attendees were Fat Mike, CJ Ramone, Joe Escalante, Linda Ramone, (DJ) Shepard Fairey as well as several local promoters, band members, and record labels. Artifacts in the new Joe Strummer section include Joe’s Telecaster guitar, and Marshall head, several hand written original lyrics sheets, photographs, and more. It’s a must see for any Clash Fan. ...
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The folks at the Punk Rock Museum invited us to come check it out, so here’s some photos from our visit! ...
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Our friends in Mercy Music’s new album What You Stand to Lose is out today. Order it on one of the very cool vinyl’s at Mercy Music | Official Merch Store | Hello Merch or check it out on your favorite streaming platform! ...
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Our buddies in Mercy Music have a new album coming out, they recorded at the Blasting Room with Bill Stevenson of The Descendents. The new single and video are out now. Checkout the press release below, and the full album June 30th via Double Helix Records! Press Release: “The lyrics kind of sum up my life playing music in that you had better be in it because you love it, because nothing is guaranteed,” says vocalist and guitarist Brendan Scholz of Las Vegas-based pop-punk outfit MERCY MUSIC on the band’s hopeful and determined new single “Suddenly” taken from their upcoming fourth full-length album What You Stand To Lose out June 30th via Double Helix Records/SBÄM Records. With such deliberate lyrics like “You place your bet, put it all on black / The urge to win, better give back / Fight and die, to fight and die again,” even the listener ...
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